When is the best time for physical exercise? This is one of the frequently asked fitness questions by FitTimers who have a certain level of fitness knowledge. How do you answer them? In the morning? In the afternoon? At noon? At night? Or Anytime FitTime? Today, let’s talk about the best time for physical exercise.

Method/Process

Some people enjoy welcoming the first ray of sunlight in the morning through fitness exercises, but for most people, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky to exercise in the morning. The most suitable golden time for personal training lies in both personal preferences and leisure time, as well as the regularity of the body’s physiological functions. Physical exercise should bring joy to the mind and promote physical and mental health. If injuries occur due to overly tense muscles during morning exercise or sleep reduction caused by exercising late at night, it is a reversal of the original intention of our physical exercise.

2 After long-term observation, it has been found that according to the different training time each day, fitness enthusiasts can be divided into three categories:

1. Morning people: Wake up full of energy, passionate and energetic, take a shower and have a nutritious and healthy breakfast after training, and start the day’s work with vitality. 2. Night owls: People who like to stay in bed, and the only one who actually gets up is the body, the brain’s vitality and muscle sensitivity are about zero in the first two or three hours after waking up, but as it gets late at night, these people’s thinking becomes more excited and they are more determined, so their training results are better. 3. Majority (excluding morning and night people): 60% – 70% of people belong to the ‘majority’, they feel awkward to exercise too early or too late, so they naturally become the core force in the bustling peak hours of the gym.

We can see that the structure/function of the human body is not necessarily at its peak at the same time. Considering the differences in everyone’s free time, it is not easy to say which time period is the most suitable for exercise. If you must choose a time period, I personally suggest exercising between 16:00 and 18:00.

Next, let’s discuss which groups are suitable for which types of exercise in the morning, noon, and dusk:

Morning: Muscle building training! Testosterone plays a particularly important role in protein synthesis and muscle fiber reconstruction during weight lifting training. With excellent mental focus, it can quickly control the connection between ‘mind-muscle’ during training, and improve the efficiency of muscle exercise. Noon: The best time to break through training bottlenecks. Since pain tolerance reaches its peak in the afternoon, it can bear the weight of the threshold for stimulating weight during weight lifting, which can help you increase your limit and challenge heavier weights. Dusk: The best training condition. Most of the body’s functions are at a high level, suitable for various sports competitions.

However, ideals are abundant, and life is无奈. Previous views and suggestions were all based on the fundamental laws of pure physiology. If various fragmented factors and personal factors are considered, the selection of exercise time needs to be taken into account as well.

Is weight loss one of your overall goals? If so, morning exercise can reasonably assist you in achieving this goal (high-quality testosterone metabolism). With the cooperation of reduced food intake before exercise, the body is more likely to produce energy by burning fat.

Research shows that physical exercise can reasonably enhance serotonin levels. Low serotonin levels are very prone to cause depression, and after morning exercise, serotonin levels rise, which can produce a good mood throughout the day.