Being a Personal Fitness Trainer for 15 years has taught me one thing about people. They genuinely don’t want to work out, so I will never turn anyone against exercising no matter what time of day. However, in my experience, there are better times of the day to lace on the cross trainers and get your workout on! Now keep in mind that everybody is different in the flexibility of their schedule and people function better at different times of the day. Although I firmly believe that that body is trainable and will adapt if you give 6 weeks in a new regime. The same also applies for the way that we eat.
First off, if you intend to completely change the way you look and feel it comes at the price of a commitment! That may mean getting up an hour earlier each morning or sacrificing something else that you would have rather done for working out. It means ordering the fruit for dessert over the chocolate decadence. Remember nothing tastes as good as being in shape feels!!!
Let’s assume that the morning workout is a possibility for you. I have had many clients who trained before sunrise…just saying. The first feeling we want to start our day is good energy and circulation. How many times have you woke up feeling like you were in a car accident. That lack of circulation causing inflammation. The cure for that is increasing blood flow, through exercise. So now we have worked out , we feel better physically and mentally and next we are hungry from the workout. What does hunger mean? It means our metabolism is jump started and the fat burning is underway. So now we have a clear head and we feel great about ourselves. It is time to eat. We are more likely to make a good choice because we feel good and don’t want to ruin that feeling. Then one good choice turns into another and then we end up having a good day.
Night time is crucial to keeping the eating habits under control. A lot of us are night owls and go to bed too late after sitting around the house picking on the wrong food for a variety of reasons. Well, because we got up an hour earlier and exercised, we are now going to crash earlier and avoid that extra hour of possible night time emotional eating. Working out at night is not bad but just keep in mind that we usually get really hungry after workouts and now you are getting into those later hours where we want to cut down on our calories. Also, a good workout will sometimes give you a blast of energy that could keep you up later than you want. I have been known to clean my whole house after a good workout.
Tomorrow we start it all over again. Remember it takes 4-6 weeks to change and develop a new and positive habit, give yourself that time.
As seen in the Coral Springs Lifestyle magazine.
