What Is The Best Time Of Day To Workout?

My take on this subject is that working out is much better for a specific time during the day than others. Generally, for myself, I enjoy working out after my second meal of the day, this way I have lots of energy and can get the best workout I can.

The reason I work out about an hour after my second meal of the day is because of a few reasons. First, we need to take a look at the biology of how fitness and nutrition works, mainly for my type of fitness and goals. I work out about 5 or six times per week, this way I use the best methods I can find for keeping up with this routine.

Here are some of the reasons why I like to work out after eating my second meal of the day and which is why I suggest this is the best time of day to work out…

Burns Calories All Day Long

After your workout earlier in the day, for example, after lunch, your body’s ability to burn fat and keep burning fat stays stronger. Your body burns most of its calories during the earlier parts of the day. That way, you are in better shape to burn fat and keep of any extra weight that you don’t want.

After your workout, your metabolism is higher, keeping your body’s engine rev’d up to burn off more and more fat.

Uses The High Spikes Of Insulin

After your second meal of the day, your body will have a full tank of glycogen and insulin to use for an intense workout. Normally, your body will use up all the nutrients from your breaks fast meal to repair your body and muscle tissues from the day before. While you sleep, your body also converts these nutrients to feed your muscles and recover.

While your body sleeps it uses up all those nutrients, then by the time you eat your first meal it will use up all of those nutrients to fill up once more. This way after a second meal, your insulin levels are elevated increasing energy and ability to grow muscle and work out more effectively.

Muscles Are Repaired

The first meal is mostly used to recover the body, and the second meal if better at growing new muscles. So it always seems to me that I do not have enough energy from the first meal to get an intense workout. After the second meal, my body feels much more recovered and can work out best!

Do you have a favourite time of the day to work out?