049: Why an Evening Routine Makes You Feel Better Physically, Mentally, and Emotionally (And How To Create One)

The Better Man Podcast

Everyone has an evening routine—whether you developed it consciously or not. But many evening routines don’t prepare your mind and body for sleep.

Why?

Well, the evening routines created consciously feel more like a to-do list that adds stress and pressure to you right before bed. Whereas evening routines that weren’t created consciously usually involve watching TV or scrolling social media—which can both make it more difficult to actually fall asleep.

The best evening routines help you feel better physically, mentally, and emotionally. And that means they’re simple, fit into your already busy schedule, and give your body a chance to calm down and go to bed relaxed (instead of shifting positions constantly for an hour while you try and battle an anxious body and mind when you shut off the light and go to sleep).

In this episode, we’ll cover:

• What an evening routine is & how to create an easy evening routine that helps you drift into sleep and wake up feeling refreshed
• Why spending even 10 seconds doing a relaxing task like saying goodnight to your animals can dramatically improve your sleep
• How evening routines that are complicated to-do lists in disguise sabotages your sleep
• The #1 goal of your evening routine
• My personal evening routine that I still follow (even though I have a newborn baby in the house)

And more!

Want to unlock deeper, more restorative sleep, and wake up feeling more refreshed and ready to conquer your day?

Listen now.

Show highlights include:

• How a lack of sleep undermines the hard work you do in the gym (1:31)
• The #1 goal of your evening routine (and why having a complicated evening routine with several tasks makes achieving this goal impossible) (4:16)
• How replacing TV time before bed with this will help you feel more relaxed and less stressed (even if it takes some effort when you first begin) (8:18)
• The “pleasant and tired buzz” secret for designing an evening routine that helps you wake up motivated to conquer your day (11:00)
• How to transform boring household cypress into your secret weapon for relaxation by slowing them down (14:34)
• Why spending a few minutes foam rolling before bed unlocks deeper, more restorative sleep (18:14)

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