Experts have revealed the best time to go to the gym (Image: Getty)
Gymming, or working out in a gym, is an excellent way to improve physical fitness, build strength, and enhance overall well-being. Regular gym sessions help regulate sleep patterns and improve rest quality.
Deciding on the best time to exercise varies from person to person, depending on their schedules. However, according to some longevity experts, there is a particular time that is considered the best time to go to the gym.
Experts believe going to the gym between 4 and 8pm has several benefits.
A scientific study published in analysed the swim times of 144 medal-winning swimmers across four Olympic Games—Athens (2004), Beijing (2008), London (2012), and Rio (2016)—and found that their fastest performances occurred in the early evening, specifically around 5.12 PM.
This finding adds to the growing body of evidence indicating that physical performance is influenced by the time of day.
The time-of-day seems to also lead to affect men and women differently when they exercise. (Image: Getty)
Experts also believe that resistance exercise (like weightlifting or strength training) is influenced by the time of day, affecting performance levels and possibly varying between genders.
The effects of time of day on exercise performance appear to differ between men and women, likely due to differences in hormonal cycles and biological rhythms.
Juleen Zierath, an exercise physiologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, has been researching the interaction between exercise and the circadian system, reports .
She and her colleagues found that mice that exercised in the morning burned more fat. Ms Zierath believes the findings suggest that exercising at an optimal time of day could maximise the health benefits of exercise for individuals with metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and obesity.
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She said: “Everybody agrees that exercise is good, irrespective of time-of-day, but one can maybe fine-tune the metabolic outcomes of the exercise based on when you exercise.”
Karyn Esser, a physiologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville in the US: “There are variations in the timing of our clocks.
“Those of us that are larks have a clock that likely runs a little bit less than 24 hours, and those of us that are owls probably have a clock that runs a little bit more than 24 hours.”