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The Best Time for Your Health
When to: Work Up a Sweat
When to: Work Up a Sweat
The best time to work out? It depends. If your goal is simply to stick with your routine, morning is best — experts say exercising in the morning allows you to avoid the distractions and excuses that crop up over the course of the day.
But if you're already a devoted exerciser looking to score a personal record in a local 10k next month, you'll get your best training in after work. That's because your body temperatures gradually rise a few degrees over the course of the day, priming your muscles for action and making your heart and lungs more efficient at pumping blood and oxygen through your body.
By Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie. Published February 14, 2012. Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie is a health and fitness writer in Syracuse, NY and author of the newly-released book Tone Every Inch (Rodale, 2012).
