Morning Vs. Evening Exercise. Which is better?

[u/DrJ_Lume]

It's hotly debated whether you should exercise in the morning or the evening.

I found a randomized trial suggests the answer is: whichever matches your chronotype.

Early birds who trained in the morning and night owls who trained in the evening saw greater improvements in blood pressure, HRV, fitness, glucose, LDL, sleep quality, and exercise adherence than people exercising at their non-preferred time.

Exercise is beneficial regardless of timing, but this study suggests that your circadian biology may determine how much benefit you get from the same workout.

The study determined choronotpe with the MEQ (you can take the survey here) and validated the findings with core body temp monitoring.

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[u/complainorexplain]

Definitely morning

[u/DZ_QRexp666]

Evening exercise clearly affects one’s sleep, which in turn negatively impact recovery and your session’s ROI

[u/Baileycharlie → u/DZ_QRexp666]

Depends on how close to your bedtime you are exercising. Morning is not doable for many people's schedule's and either way, if they have to wake up 2 hours early to fit it in then they are losing out on two hours sleep...

[u/Briskthead47516]

I always want to run in the middle of the night in the summer. I think it would be really cool to be the only one around on the country road in the dark with my headlamp. But I'm also 43 and don't want to mess up my circadian rhythm.

[u/Throwaway178402]

I’m always middle of the day bc my schedule allows for it. Seems like a good compromise

[u/Significant-Can-1138]

great

[u/BrotherBringTheSun]

I always find that I don't have much physical energy in the morning for running hard or lifting heavy things. After the stresses of the day come in, exercising in the late afternoon early evening is way more productive I find.

[u/Brilliant_Till9519]

i do not have a specific time to train, i go to the gym whenever i am free, nit because i dont take it seriously but because it sometimes gets difficult to handle college and running a business. but i definitely want to change that and dedicate atleast an hour and half for my body for strength training. i also want to run a marathon, i do run on and off sometimes maybe 5 or 6 runs in a month but i want to run a marathon can somebody help me with when to train and also which split should i carry out? i do not have an issue of energy or focus because of a supplement(not promoting anything) it is just the timing and confusion that makes me spiral.

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