Sleep or Exercise: Which One Is More Important?

It's a very good question. I think they're equally important, but there is one curiosity I'd like to raise: even on very little sleep, you can operate on a physical level, even through endurance. Also, the more exercise you're getting will improve your overall health, which reduces your need for sleep oddly. Therefore it might follow that exercise is more important because that's how you can reduce your dependency on sleep.

Sleep, without which you can't recover from exercise.

But of course the referenced sources say, "both, duh."

"Yeah, but if you had to choose..."

To which I would have replied, "okay, dumbass, if you had to choose between food and water...oh, never mind; in a few weeks your choice would be irrelevant anyway."

This made me remember a virtuous approach to lifehacking: balance vs. harmony. Read a good piece here: http://www.activegarage.com/the-difference-between-balance-a...

Sleep.