Luis Moresco – LIFE – Personal Fitness Trainer
	Luis' passion is to help people achieve their goals through hard work and determination. He has a degree in Physical Education and a diploma in Personal Fitness, RPM, Spin, Aqua and Group Fitness. 'Don't limit your challenge, Challenge your limit”

Before you complain that your diet is sorted and you are training hard, yet still not losing any weight, then we need to check your sleeping patterns. A person who has a good night's sleep will burn more calories than those who don't.

A recent American study monitored the habits of sleep of 68,000 women and found that those who suffered from sleeplessness had fattened 2.4 kilos more than the ones who rested sufficiently. The explanation is in hormones: while you sleep, its organism increases the production.

The affected hormones are called Leptina (inhibits the hunger) and Grelina (increases the will to eat) - Leptina increases and Grelina decreases. In an ideal night, it is this adjustment that hinders you to awake hungry in the night only to attack the refrigerator.

Also, it is during sleep that occurs the production peak of the growth hormone (GH). This improves the performance in the exercise and tonus muscular, inhibits the accumulation of fat in the body and still it has direct relation with the firmness and the elasticity of skin.

GH is responsible for many different reactions in our bodies. It affects the proteins and the metabolism on carbohydrates will be accelerated which in turn can help produce insulin.

So if your eating is correct, training is on target and we now have your sleep habits under control, then you will definitely start seeing the results you deserve. Six to eight hours sleep per night is the recommendation we use, so please start trying to do this for a better quality of life all round!

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