Morning exercisers more fit than evening?

I tend to believe more dedicated people exercise in the am! This time of year the gym is full of afternoon exercisers that won't be there in a month! However I have never done Zumba so I can't speak to that class! I am a runner and only use the gym for cross training and the treadmill when it's icy!

There is no difference between exercising in the morning or evening.

I would say its just demographics.

Could be just coincidence. My gym has them even on both morning and evening.

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Yep, as stated, I would assume that more people are dedicated to working out in the AM for the most part. The evening is full of once a weekers, New Years Resolutioners, and noobs.

I work out in the PM. I must be unmotivated, unfit and lazy!



So dumb.

There's a lot of reasons working out in the morning is better for me. I don't have to fight over a bench or squat rack, I don't have to worry about people getting in my way while the free weight area is crowded, I don't have to worry about people using the cross-over station for single cable work while single cables are open like morons, I don't have to worry about the other 85 pound dumbbell vanishing off the face of the earth because some nimrod took a single dumbbell and left it in some uncharted corner somewhere, I don't have to look around for ten minutes to find two clips so I can do a proper overhead press.
I don't have to worry about people distributing the free weights around to random places and placing all the 45s in the 25 slot behind a stack of 10s, I don't have to worry about twenty people in the stretching room doing agonizingly long static stretches while taking rests (FOR STRETCHES), I don't ever see anyone doing kipping pull ups (or in one bizarre case, kipping dips) making me afraid to go use the other pullup stations nearby, and I don't have to worry about anyone forcing me into a twenty minute long conversation that's nearly impossible to escape from without being blatantly rude.

My gym is a jungle in the evening, it's hard to get things done when everything is so out of order and the gym has suffered the daily barrage of people slowly dismantling everything and spreading it all across the four corners of the gym.
By the end of the day, my gym is like a fantasy videogame, where if you want do to a set of squats, you have to go on the epic quest to find the four magical pieces of equipment to bring home and save your village from the deadly curse of No Squats.

So yeah, I like going in the morning.

People who workout at a time that fits their lifestyle the best are more fit than those who try to workout at a specific time thinking it will give them an edge.

I workout on my lunch hour because it is when I can fit it in. If I had to wake up at 4am to workout I would quit after a few days.

Yep, as stated, I would assume that more people are dedicated to working out in the AM for the most part. The evening is full of once a weekers, New Years Resolutioners, and noobs.

And this. I don't know what gym you go to but mine is nothing like this.

I have consistently been there 4-5 NIGHTS per week for the last year. And I always see the same people. Nothing to do with dedication, different people have different schedules.

These responses seriously make no sense.

^ This. I've been really consistent since I started, and when I had 1x job I would go at whatever time in the day was most convinient to the errands I had to run, it was in the morning some days and the evenings others, really late at night sometimes, but I *always* went. Now I go in the evenings because I go for a 40 minute walk every morning and would not have the time to sleep as well as get my workout in before starting my 2nd job. No correlation I think, more demographics.