What's more important, exercise or sleep?

IMO, sleep.

Are there any days of the week when you could sleep more than 6 hours and still exercise?

It would at least partly depend on how active you are outside of "exercise". Both being sedentary and not getting enough sleep can be detrimental to your health. If you can't get enough activity and sleep in a day then you might want to look at cutting time somewhere else.

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

It would at least partly depend on how active you are outside of "exercise". Both being sedentary and not getting enough sleep can be detrimental to your health. If you can't get enough activity and sleep in a day then you might want to look at cutting time somewhere else.

This.

For me... It's exercise. I sacrifice sleep to wake up at 530 am to work out.

I would rather go to bed early than not work out

H4N4H wrote: »

Packerjohn wrote: »

Maybe add to the question for most people. Which is more important, sleep, exercise or TV/video game/other screen time and ask again.

You can't have it all, you have to make time for exercising.

To OP, get some sleep. It's real important.

And do it at the expense of screen time as opposed to exercise time.

Both.

I teach a time management course. If you have a very busy schedule (school/long commute/long work hours) then be creative where you get your exercise. I suggested to one of my participants that he get off the bus several blocks from home. Instant daily walk.

I have trouble sleeping and 6 continous hours would be a treat. Can you split the difference at 30 minutes?

scolaris wrote: »

Both. Tell me the rest of your schedule & I'll tell you where to cut.

This.

Sleep. However, 99 out of every 100 people that have ever asked me this somehow have time for tv/ social media. So if you have time for TV or social media, you have time to workout.

Asher_Ethan wrote: »

Sleep. However, 99 out of every 100 people that have ever asked me this somehow have time for tv/ social media. So if you have time for TV or social media, you have time to workout.

This is very true.

I had terrible sleep apnea. Until I had treatment for that, I was absolutely miserable and couldn't function well enough to exercise. But as soon as I got treatment, I started working on fitness through diet and exercise and a big part of that was cutting out 95% of my TV time.

ninerbuff wrote: »

Sleep. However, I have it hard to believe that ANYONE couldn't do 30 minutes of exercise somewhere in their day of 16 hours of being awake. Even if one had a desk job, a stationary pedal machine would work.

I really wish I was awake 16 hours a day.

For me sleep >>> exercise, but I also make exercise a priority every day because when I didn't, my weight got out of control and it only made things worse.

As a mom, sleep haha. ALWAYS.

Totally agree with others though, if your on social media, watching TV, sitting on the couch you have time for a 30 minute workout.

While I think it's very important to make time for both, I would have to say sleep. For the past 4 months I have gotten an ample amount of exercise, but I've struggled some with insomnia. I do think the lack of getting a solid deep sleep consistently has masked some of the health benefits that I should be getting from exercise. So essentially, I would say there's not much you can do to make up for not enough/proper sleep.