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.

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



So dumb.

Me too... It didnt take any dedication at all to lose over 100 pounds.... I wish I could be considered dedicated, but I guess without AM workouts I dont fit into that club LOL

I totally notice that at my gym. I do zumba M W F & S in the am but I decided to double up Wednesday and do the morning and night class and yes I agree with you 100% I also feel much more motivated in the am because I'm surrounded by these beautifully fit women, it pushes me harder to do the workout. I definitely love the am workouts better !!

I am a morning workout person at this point in my life. Could be age or just that is the time when the kids are in school and I can squeeze it into my work schedule. But this past week I had to work out at night and I noticed a huge difference (no pun intended) in the size of the people working out at night. I do Zumba - so I am comparing morning Zumba to night Zumba. It could be isolated- but it was such a striking difference that my jaw dropped. In the morning I am one of the big girls, but not in the night class! Has anyone else ever noticed a difference or is it just a weird isolated thing I experienced this week?

I also noticed this the first time I walked into my gym to work out at 6am rather than 4pm (I worked out at 5am during high school and wanted to get back into what works for me). I immediately texted my boyfriend, "all of the people in here this early look so thin and determined. I SHALL JOIN THEM SOON!!!!!!!!"

There are also virtually no "new years resolutioners" of whom I expect to quit in the following months in the mornings, but when I have to go after work for a change or after I sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays the gym has been EXTREMELY PACKED. So the idea that morning workout people DO have more dedication also seems pretty apparent,

It is a backed observation, but doesn't necessarily point to the *conclusion* that people who workout in the evening are doing something wrong. After all, I work out some evenings still, too ;P

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



So dumb.

You understand it implies nothing about ALL evening exercisers, right? Or you? It's an averages thing, not an absolute one.

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/whats-the-best-time-to-exercise

"Research suggests in terms of performing a consistent exercise habit, individuals who exercise in the morning tend to do better," says Cedric Bryant, PhD, chief science officer with the American Council on Exercise in San Diego.

"The thinking is that they get their exercise in before other time pressures interfere," Bryant says. "I usually exercise at 6 a.m., because no matter how well-intentioned I am, if I don't exercise in the morning, other things will squeeze it out."

causation =/= correlation


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