By : Mike Jesowshek

Does it really matter if you workout in the morning, afternoon, or evening?  The answer is that it does matter.  After reading this please don’t go to your employer and tell them that you quit, because you need to workout at a different time.  So when is the perfect time to workout?  Truthfully the best time to workout is different for each person.  The best time to workout is when you are most awake.  If you wake up at 5:00 in the morning, you probably wont be real awake when 9:00 and 10:00 come around at night.  During your workout you want to be active, energetic, and focused.  Do you have problems sleeping a little after working out?  If yes, it is best to workout in the morning or during the day so that when the night rolls around you are able to get the right amount of sleep for muscle growth.

There is no certain time when people are suggested to workout, but I feel that during the middle of the day is the best time to work out.  It is obviously tough for some people to exercise in the middle of the day due to many factors including work, sleep, and nutrition.  Lifting should be based on your own personal schedule.  To make your workouts worthwhile you must be full of energy.  In order to have this energy you must be on proper sleep, food in your system, and wide-awake.  Having enough energy means that you are not fatigue at all.  It does not pay to do hard manual labor for 10 hours a day and then go to the gym and workout when you can barely walk the way it is.

The perfect time to workout is a pretty wide range.  The first six hours after waking up is usually not a great time to workout because proper nutrition and energy will not be through your body by that time.  Anything after twelve hours of waking up is also not a great time to workout because our bodies are at that time starting to fatigue and get ready for sleep.  After figuring it out, we should workout anywhere between six and twelve hours of waking up.  For example if a person went to bed at eleven and woke up at seven, they would be best suited to workout between one and seven in the afternoon.  Therefore it gives you a wide variety of time to exercise.  Usually people don’t find it hard to train with-in those hours.

After reading this, don’t think that you HAVE to train during those hours to get positive effects.  Working out at any time of the day is better than not working out at all.  To get the most benefits from working out, it is suggested to workout during those hours.  I hope you have learned from me and try to take what I have told you today into consideration the next time you go to workout!