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Best time to exercise

Postby photohiker » Wed 06 Jan, 2016 9:04 am

Interesting stuff:

Health Check: what’s the best time of the day to exercise?

The ability to perform endurance exercise is stable across the day but it is during the evening that reaction time, joint flexibility, muscle strength and power reach their highest level. During evening hours, the rating of perceived exertion (a measure that represents how hard a person feels their body is working) is lower. This means we feel less exerted so we can work harder and get better results.

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The timing of exercise can have a meaningful influence on the quality of training and recovery, especially for athletes. However, most people should be more concerned about the act of exercising itself than its timing.
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Re: Best time to exercise

Postby GPSGuided » Wed 06 Jan, 2016 9:20 am

There's certainly individual variations in this and factors extends far more than just an individual's physiology. Useful information.
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Re: Best time to exercise

Postby MrWalker » Wed 06 Jan, 2016 2:12 pm

I think the experts agree that the best time to exercise is when it is most convenient for you, because you are more likely to keep doing it regularly.
But if you have a choice of different times, then take the above advice into account.
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Re: Best time to exercise

Postby neilmny » Wed 06 Jan, 2016 4:36 pm

photohiker wrote:.......The ability to perform endurance exercise is stable across the day but it is during the evening that reaction time, joint flexibility, muscle strength and power reach their highest level. During evening hours, the rating of perceived exertion (a measure that represents how hard a person feels their body is working) is lower. This means we feel less exerted so we can work harder and get better results......


Kind of explains why a walk after dinner goes so well.........apart from the feeling of shaking your tucker down :D

I also agree with Mr Walker.....its' the daily doing that matters most.
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