Thread: Early morning training

During the night you store energy in the blood stream as you are not moving around much, this is also due to your body temp dropping thus needing to use less energy. Training first thing is a good idea to use up all the stored enegry but you must be carefull of you blood sugar levels dropping well below normal when doing strenuous exercise like weights, training first thing is more suited to cardiovascular exercises. Sports scientists claim the best time to weight train for maximum gains is approx two hours after lunch as there is usually an excess of energy and nutrients in your body.

Greater Growth Hormone release in the morning (natural levels that is).

I ALWAYS train early due to my job. Earliest being 6am. For the first couple months I found it hard, however your body gets used to it soon after.

I prefer to train in the morning but I need some food down my neck before I do anything. Some whey mixed with milk/water and oats before. At the very least a scoop of whey and glutamine will prevent any catabolism.

After a days work I find it hard to focus but I'm due to change gyms and I'm hoping to start am training again.

Your Test levels are also higher I believe. I enjoy it from time to time - all day long to eatand recover as well .

One thing though - my Chiroprator told me - is that your joints aren't in a ready state for heavy lifting or stretching first thing. I can't remember what I was told exactly, I'll ask next time, but it's something to do with the movement of fluid around the joints.

I'd guess that if you maybe did a quick 5 - 10 min cardio warm up this may help. Has anyone been told something similar?

I've always heard its best to do your cardio in the morning so you use stored fat instead of energy from food, but I don't know about joints at that time. I can't stand morning training, it takes me ages to get moving at a decent pace so I go to the gym around 3-4pm.