{"id":3545,"date":"2009-12-11T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:53:40","slug":"better-to-exercise-in-the-morning-or-later-in-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3545","title":{"rendered":"Better to exercise in the morning, or later in the day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personal Best – To Exercise Early or Late, Now There\u2019s a Question – NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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Greg Atkinson, also at Liverpool John Moores University, said that some researchers, noticing that heart rates during exercise were lower in the morning, reasoned the way I did \u2014 that people must be more efficient in the morning. It would mean that exercise was easier in the morning. Of course, it seemed harder to me, but I could have been deluding myself. Not really, Dr. Atkinson said. It actually is<\/em><\/span> harder to exercise in the morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost components (strength, power, speed) of athletic performance are worst in the early hours of the morning,\u201d he wrote in an e-mail message. \u201cRatings of perceived exertion during exercise have generally been found to be highest in the early morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I certainly  find this to be true.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIs a heart rate of 140 in the morning indicative of the same level of workout cost as in the afternoon?\u201d asked Dr. Smolensky, a visiting professor at the University of Texas<\/font><\/a> Health Sciences Center in Houston.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say no,\u201d he added. \u201cExercise physiologists say you should be able to perform at the same level with a heart rate of 140 in the morning as in the afternoon or early evening. But chronobiologists say your capacity to generate and tolerate a higher heart rate is better later in the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the afternoon and evening,\u201d Dr. Smolensky said, \u201cyou are in a different biological state.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, he added, all this applies to people who are regular exercisers, who work out vigorously three or more times a week. People who are not regular exercisers, Dr. Smolensky said, put much more strain on their hearts in the morning, making their heart rates higher then. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to say that if you are at risk of a heart attack, it's better to work out in the afternoon or early evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personal Best – To Exercise Early or Late, Now There\u2019s a Question – NYTimes.com Greg Atkinson, also at Liverpool John Moores University, said that some researchers, noticing that heart rates during exercise were lower in the morning, reasoned the way I did \u2014 that people must be more efficient in the morning. It would mean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5727,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}