Workout Schedule?!

Doesn't matter as long as you do it

I have NEVER EVER been a morning exerciser...EVER lol...I always workout after work...which is 4pm for me...this works out perfectly for me because I can't workout after eating too much and at this time enough hours have passed from lunch so that I don't feel queasy

I like to work out in a morning, but as I'm out of the house 11 hours a day for work, I end up doing my exercise in the evening, about 7pm just before dinner. At the weekends I like to get up and get my exercise done first thing, before showering and getting ready for the day ahead.

I love my evening exercises though, because after a stressful day at work I come home and do my indoor cycling or weight training and it clears my head, I work up an appetite and then when it's time for bed, I am well fed, tired and thoroughly de-stressed, so generally sleep a lot better - if I don't work out in the evenings I find I go to bed later, which is not ideal when you're working the next morning, or I go to bed at the usual time, but have a lousy nights sleep, which again, isn't great for work the next morning.

As everyone else has said, its just personal preference. On some days I will work out in the mornings, some days in the evening. Sometimes I work out in the morning and evening, just whatever I fancy doing really lol.

It just depends. I would love to be able to work out super-early, but I have to get my kids to school and it just doesn't work out. I usually end up working out later at night after kids in bed. We're talking 10 PM or later. I can definitely tell I'm more tired. (I was able to work out at lunch last week and I had SO much more energy.) Also, I come home around 11:30 and I'm absolutely wired and it's hard for me to get to sleep.

beaglebrandon wrote: »

I had a mandatory 1 hour lunch. It only took me 15 minutes to eat - so I had 45 minutes to waste every day. It was too short of a time to go to the gym and workout, so I asked my boss if I could extend that to 2 hours. He agreed.

For the last year and a half, I've been working out every day 11am to 12:45 and eating lunch 12:45 to 1:00. Works perfectly for me. At the beginning, it 'forced' me to workout, because what else would I do with that 2 hour break? And I felt guilty if I didn't go to the gym and wasted the 2 hours some other way.

I enjoy going to the gym now since I 'forced' myself to do it. I don't think it would have worked for me if I had early morning or after work workouts. I would have blew off so many days as I'd want to sleep in or go home after work instead.

Ya, I often take a longer lunch and go workout or for a long walk. Getting some activity in at lunch time makes me more productive an energized in the afternoons, as well as less prone to the munchies.

When I had less flexibility at lunch I took a shorter walk.

When I tended to go to bed early, I went to the gym in the AM, and now that it works for my schedule to go to bed later, I go more at night, although my natural inclination would be to do it in the AM.

Also, if it's raining at lunch I'll do something indoors, like yoga, or go to the gym or ice skating rink where I used to live or the roller blading rink near my new place. I'll garden in a light rain.

I usually prefer to do it first thing in the morning so its out of the way and done, however sometimes I am too tired in the morning and will let myself sleep in instead. I am not going to force myself to do cardio in the morning if I am feeling really tired, and I will try and do it after work. I aim to do 1 hour on my exercise bike, about 10 000 steps a day and 20 to 30 minutes of resistance training. Yes its a lot, so sometimes I don't do all of those steps or the exercise bike gets skipped. I love using my bike because I either put Netflix on or some great music like aerosmith or carrie underwood. Walking is something I really love too. I get a sore back sometimes and walking decreases that.