You can read all you want about how many calories are burned after your workout, whether working out after a hard day at work is a great thing to do, the benefits of getting the blood flowing in the morning. All that stuff is great, and if you can work all the best practices into your workouts, all the better.
But the fact is that the best time to workout is WHEN YOU CAN!
I am busy, and I mean busy. Just about all my time — and then some — is spoken for, whether it’s work, time with family, meals, working out, sleeping, whatever. You are probably busy, too. It’s hard to fit a workout in, but we gotta do it.
So why worry about the perfect time of day to work out? Get your workout in whenever you can do it.
I personally prefer around 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning. I’m fairly warm and awake by then. I wake up at 6:00 or 7:00, and by 10:00 have had some coffee and gotten some work done, so a workout is a good break and a way to get the blood flowing to carry me through the rest of the day.
My friend does his workouts at 10:00, too. But at night. I could never do that — I like to be winding down for bed by then — but he stays up really late. Anyway, my friend was concerned that 10:00pm was not the best time to do his thing, and it was that conversation that spurred this post.
Well, let me see. He hasn’t missed a workout in over 250 days. That tells me that his workout is scheduled at the perfect time.
How about you? Are you consistently missing workouts? Then you are not working out at the best time for you. Find your best time. Stick to it. That’s the way to get results.