In an ideal world, we’d all be sleeping by 10pm, snoozing uninterrupted until 6am, and basking in that post-exercise glow long before responsibility comes knocking. Thing is, life is rarely so predictable. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Work, childcare, illness, and – oh, I don’t know – the urge to claw back Me Time and enjoy doing nothing – it all adds up. We may all have the same 24 hours but our freedom to spend them doing what we please varies wildly. So, if we have to choose between those mythical 8 hours of sleep and getting in a workout, which one is actually more likely to contribute to a healthier lifestyle?

As luck would have it, a recent study decided to dive into just that. It analyzed over 28 million da

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