If you can barely pull yourself out of bed in the morning, let alone exercise, it can be difficult to put together a workout plan. There are many benefits to getting in your day’s exercise in the wee hours, even if it is a little difficult at first. Let’s look at just a few reasons why exercising in the morning may be right for you.
1. Evening exercise is too easy to put off.
After work or school, we’re tired and all we want to do is relax. It is all too easy to put off that workout until tomorrow when your coach is beckoning. People who exercise in the morning generally find that they are less likely to skip their workouts once they get into a routine. You’ve got your whole day ahead of you, and you won’t be in the mode to wind down in the morning.
2. Morning exercise increases your metabolism.
One of the single best reasons to haul yourself out of bed in the morning for some cardio or strength training is that you’ll be giving your metabolism a jump start with all that activity. Better yet, the effects last throughout the day, so you’ll be burning fat even while you’re sitting at a desk. This is a great way to start your day.
3. You’re training your body to be more energized.
When you get into the routine of exercising in the morning, your body will begin to anticipate this. After a few days, or maybe as long as two weeks, your body will start producing endorphins right before you wake up. This means that you’ll wake up feeling less groggy and you’ll be more alert. If you can stick it out for a few days, you’ll be doing yourself a big favor and you will see results.
4. Your brain will thank you.
If you need to be sharp mentally for a big day at work, exercise is very good for your brain. All those good chemicals that exercise releases into your bloodstream help your brain function better and you will be more mentally alert. It may not seem like it at first, but you should notice a big difference in how you feel during the day after regular morning workouts.
5. You’ll sleep better.
Exercising later in the day tends to disrupt your body’s cycles. All the benefits we mentioned earlier will be occurring, but they will be happening too late in the day. You may find that you’re too wired to go to bed if you exercise too late in the day. All of that brain power and metabolism boosting will be going to waste! By switching to morning workouts instead, your body will be ready to go to sleep at the end of the day and you will sleep more soundly.
It may be hard to get up a few minutes earlier, but in the end, you’re doing your body a big favor. Take the morning exercise challenge for two weeks and see how you feel!
Photo Credits: 1
Originally posted 2008-08-26 05:49:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Related Posts -
Is Your Exercise Routine Giving You A Headache? If you are finding that you develop consistent headaches or migraines, the answer may be in your workout, or more importantly, how you are working out. It is actually quite common to get a headache a few hours after exercising. This is due to the fact that sudden stress on...... -
Understanding Metabolism The rate in which your body uses the energy stored in food, otherwise know as calories, is called your metabolism. The resting metabolism is the measure of calories needed for basic body function. Energy metabolism is the process by the body of breaking down the various nutrients and converting them...... -
3 Weight Loss Techniques You Need to Avoid We all know that fad diets are a bad idea and rarely work, but it is so easy to get swept away by their claims that many forget this. Who doesn't want to lose ten pounds in a few days? The problem is, these diets not only are not...... -
What Time of the Day is Best For Exercise? While there are many schools of thought on the subject of what time during the day is optimum, it generally boils down to whether or not you are capable of fitting in a workout during that specific time. We’re all on pretty tight schedules these days and sometimes, it is...... -
Is Water Aerobics Right For You? If you are just getting started on your journey to fitness and wellness, exercise may be a little difficult. In fact, many people become so discouraged at their lack of overall fitness and stamina that they give up. Instead of taking this route, it is important to find an exercise......
Related Websites -
Preparing Yourself for the Triathlon Run Running in a triathlon is unlike any other running you have done in your life. This is because the triathlon run is completed after you have already swum and rode a bike. You will be tired and ready to stop, but you will need to dig in and find a...... -
How to Fix Your Slice Out of all of the mistakes you can make out on the course, a slice is probably the most common. This refers to a ball that goes to the right after you hit it, usually right into a nice stand of trees or a nearby water hazard. A slice is...... -
The Danger of Fad Diets and Why They Never Work When desperate to loss weight, people tend to lean toward fad dieting, due to their tendency to offer "instant" results. They’re always commercially successful, but they leave their practitioners without many options and issues with health. In short order, another one fad will take its place. Fad diet work in...... -
Snowboarding Day 1 Snowboarding is a really excellent sport. It requires good physical fitness, but it really pays off in the end when you end up having tons of fun on the slopes all throughout the winter months. Before you ever jump on your snowboard and hit the slopes, however, it is important...... -
6 Things to Avoid When Turkey Hunting Here are a wide variety of little things that you need to avoid in order to turkey hunt successfully. Most turkey hunters learned these things through decades of turkey hunting, but now you do not have to. 1 - Limit movement. When turkeys see movement, they immediately know that danger......
- Body Solid Abdominal Exercisers Fitness Equipment Gym, Workout & Yoga Exercise & Fitness
- Wooden Training Equipment Martial Arts Exercise & Fitness
- Resistance Strength Training Gym, Workout & Yoga Exercise & Fitness
- Gas Back Pack With Electric Start Leaf Blowers & Vacuums Outdoor Power Equipment Yard, Garden & Outdoor Living
- Triathlon Strength Training Gym, Workout & Yoga Exercise & Fitness
Categories:
activities, exercise, metabolism, sleep
Tags:
6 comments ↓
reason number one ALL THE WAY HERE.
regarding #2
Not trying to be a pain but, do you have a reference for that?
@cam
Anytime you exercise you increase your metabolism.
The effects duration depends on the strenuousness and length of the exercise.
http://www.dietitian.com/metabolism.html
As for time of day it is not really relevant, but rather an excellent reason to exercise in general whatever the time of day.
I’ve also heard that exercise in the morning, specifically before breakfast, burns a greater proportion of fat and can make your body more efficient at burning fat. It was a study carried out in Belgium I think in the Research Centre for Exercise and Health. This is a semi fasted state though so you won’t be able to exercise as hard as you would if you had a meal of carbs in you. But if you put the exercise off till later in the day…you might end up talking you self out of training entirely, like you said in the first point above.
Excellent post! High Intensity Interval Training – such as sprint intervals on the treadmill, or rounds on a boxing bag would also help to continue to burn calories throughout the day, and, depending on the type of exercises you are doing, it could come under the ‘functional training’ umbrella as well.
Johnny
Whoops – realised I commented on the wrong article – will comment on the correct one now!
Johnny
Leave a Comment