Morning Workouts Burn More Calories
Do You Like Early-Morning Jogs?
If you like to work out before your go to work, you are in luck! A new study shows that exercising in the morning can burn more calories than exercising at night, so you might want to switch up that schedule and try to hit the gym in the early hours for maximum effect.
This is going to be a tough one for me: in the morning, I am seriously so uncoordinated that I could hurt myself while exercising. Are you the same way, or do you love a morning workout?
You're probably wondering why people burn more calories at the gym in the morning: a team at the UK's Bangor University found out that morning exercisers tend to work out harder than those who hit the gym at night, which means that you burn more calories as a result.
It might have something to do with one's schedule or with the general feeling of alertness that (most) people have, but it's a fact--you'll probably do your body better if you can sneak one in during the early morning hours. If you are like me and cannot conceivably drag yourself to the gym before work, there's always the lunch-break workout, a fair compromise between the morning and night ones! You can also try to add in some light weights, crunches, and stretches in the morning before you shower, and then get your cardio in later on in the day.
Armed with the facts, are you more likely to work out in the morning now?
