Posted on an exercises related sub but I’ll post this here, since maybe anxiety has something to do with my problem… I’m a naturally anxious person. And maybe my issue is something that affect people with anxiety. 

It’s like… isn’t exercise suppose to help sleep?

Right now where I am in life, I don’t workout but really want to since I’m tired of being a couch potato. I’ve been sleeping very well for the past few years. But before it was a mess. I had this issue where I would sleep at random hours ranging from 12-1:30, and then I’d wake up in the middle of the night to piss and couldn’t fall back asleep for hours. I’d wake up at 4 and didn’t fall back asleep until like 7 or so. And when I did it was some rough fucking sleep and then I’d be late for work. It was a bad time honestly and I was horrible depressed. Lasted a few years. During those few hours where I’d be awake my mind would be raising. I’d usually start by thinking about sex A LOT. Very high libido for the first 30-45 min. After that it was just constant anxious thinking where I’d be thinking of many things at once. It was a loud mind. 

But I made some strong efforts to fix my sleep and now it’s decent for the most part. What I did was:

- Limit screen time before bed, at least on my phone 

- black out curtains 

- started getting laid more. (This was the hardest one tbh).

- more strict schedule in sleeping. Always sleeping exactly at 12. 

Right now my only issue is that I still get up to take a piss in the middle of the night but at least now I usually fall back asleep right away after I’m done. But yeah ain’t a big deal. 

But to the main point, when I start lifting, my sleep gets FUCKED. I’ll workout at 6:00-7:00p.m, and I’ll get back to older ways of sleeping. No in fact it’ll get worse, I’ll wake up even earlier and WON’T fall back asleep at all. I worked out two days only in a row and it fucked me up for a whole week. A whole week before I went back to normal. 

What should I do? Am I like.. destined not to have any excercise in my life?