What Time of Day Do You Exercise?

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  • NoMoreJellyRolls
    NoMoreJellyRolls Posts: 142
    Mon-fri I am at the gym by 5am. Weekends vary based off my hubby work schedule, he keeps the kids while i go to the gym and vice-a-versa
  • scott1646
    scott1646 Posts: 110 Member
    If I'm going to work out the next day, I get up around 4:45 to 5:15. I hit the gym at 6am. I like that the fact, that after I'm done working out in the morning and I go to work or if it's my day off, I'm still burning calories and my energy is just pumping.

    I tried to do it after work in the late afternoon, and I just felt like my workouts were not as great and my energy just didn't seem to have the same kick as my morning workout.

    Before that I tried to hit the gym late around 9 to 10pm and it wasn't bad. My workouts were just as good as the morning one's, but sleeping was horrible. I just couldn't fall asleep, my body was too awake.
  • iamcheryld
    iamcheryld Posts: 6
    Every morning I wake up at 5 am to run with my dogs. It is great motivation to get out of the bed and start the day with some exercise before heading to work at 7:30. It is also great exercise for my dogs and keeps their energy level down to a tolerable level! Most nights after work I will either go to Tae Kwon Do for an hour or to the gym to do the elliptical or a strength training. I know variety in cardio is important, so I try do a little more each day after work to change up my routine. My favorite time to exercise is in the morning though. The days get hot quick and if I am lucky the temperature is only in the 70's waking up early. Lately it hasn't been, but I am looking forward to the days when it starts to cool down at night again!
  • klyssamoore
    klyssamoore Posts: 31 Member
    I live in Texas and by around 10am..it's already too hot to do anything outside! So I get up at 5:15 every morning and do my workouts Monday-Saturday. I love having everything done so early in the morning so that I don't feel guilty about being lazy the rest of the day.
  • ladyplaya71
    ladyplaya71 Posts: 4 Member
    Monday-Thursday 10:00pm-11:00pm and on Saturday's 8:00am-9:00am. I have an extremely busy schedule with work, school, and internship so these are the only times that I have for myself. It does get hard some times but I always look at the bigger picture. In my trainer's voice, "We Have A Game To Win"!!
  • januadiaboli
    januadiaboli Posts: 117 Member
    Right now, I'm off for the summer, so tend to do strength training and cardio mid-afternoon, when my boys are having "quiet time." The next chance I get is around 9-9:30, which is when I usually do yoga. Once the academic year begins, I'll be back at the gym once I'm done teaching for the day ... usually around 2 or so, but usually also manage to keep up my evening yoga.
  • bwmiller1
    bwmiller1 Posts: 98
    After 9pm.
  • GerritTheBlacksmith
    GerritTheBlacksmith Posts: 234
    I fit it in whenever i can
  • tonicandgin
    tonicandgin Posts: 175
    4:30am every day:)
  • iLose2Gain
    iLose2Gain Posts: 138 Member
    If I do not workout before work I will NOT workout! & since my husband has to be at work @ 6 it is a perfect opportunity to workout in the morning! So I'm up @ 5a so we can leave by 520a, have him @ work by 545a then I'm @ the gym by 6a home by 7a so I can eat breakfast, get dressed & make it to work by 9a! & I have a 40 min commute to work! Whew, got tired writing this! lol
  • Tat2dDom624
    Tat2dDom624 Posts: 1,226 Member
    I wake up at 4am, but don't usually get started until 4:30. I'm finished with my workout by 5:30, then it's my wife's turn to exercise.
  • swest222
    swest222 Posts: 455 Member
    just started in the morning ... was doing it at night but by the time the kids went to bed and I got set up with an at home work out, it was about 830pm!
    I found I was too wound up at night to sleep after that ...

    So even though I'm not a morning person .. Im trying morning ... today was my first day and it was NOT easy at all to drag myself out of bed ... but I did it and then showered and went to work ...
  • Jani2416
    Jani2416 Posts: 275 Member
    in the morning, I start around 8am.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    It depends.

    We try to get up early in the morning and hit the gym. On the days we hit snooze one too many times and go back to sleep we hit the gym in the afternoon.

    I do prefer the mornings because it gets it done and over with and you avoid the whole "work got in the way" excuse for missing a workout.
  • mariacolumbus
    mariacolumbus Posts: 227 Member
    I exercise before work (I get up at 4;45 a.m.) If I don't exerciser then, the distractions of the day set in and it never gets done. If someone would have told me 4 years ago that I would be getting up this early, I would have laughed out loud. But it is a priority to me now, so I make myself get up.

    The best time of day to exercise is when there will be NO DISTRACTIONS! no matter what time of day :)

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