Benefits Of Early Morning Exercise - Get Up And Workout!!!
Exercising early in the morning offers numerous benefits, both to your health and to your daily schedule that exercising at other times of the day just can’t provide. Waking up early may be a big problem but all you need is a little time to start practicing before morning exercise becomes your habit.
Need some convincing? Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits of exercising early in the morning.
1. Enhance Your Metabolism
Basically it means that your body burns more calories after your workout, studies shows that participants burns an extra 190 calories in the 14 hours after exercise when compared to those who didn’t exercise at all! This works perfectly with a morning exercise routine. Get up, get moving, pump up your metabolism and then eat.
2. Cultivate Some Consistency
Working out in the morning ensures that you don’t interrupt your workout schedule with other daily items that can seem more pressing. For example, if you exercise in the evening you run the risk of being late from work, feeling overloaded with errands that must be done, or saddled with other unexpected to-do items. But, in the morning there is nothing to distract you from getting down to business. Exercise will be your first priority and it will get done.
3. Improve Your Physical and Mental Energy
Engaging in morning workouts is your all-natural cup of coffee. Wake up your body and prepare your mind. Movement can be a tremendous source of energy, morning exercise has been shown to
improve focus and mental abilities all day long. Not only will you feel awake and have more energy after your workout, but your mind will be ready to take on whatever tasks you have lined up that day.
4. Develop Strong Self-Discipline
I don’t think anyone will argue with me when I say that waking up early in the morning to exercise enhances your personal discipline . Just like any habit, developing the discipline to get up and exercise in the morning only gets easier with time.
5. Get Better Sleep
Waking up early in the morning to exercise will in turn help you sleep better. Your body will enjoy a healthy sense of fatigue at the end of the day and will be ready to sleep. Say goodbye to the tossing and turning that comes when your body is restless!. Exercise is a form of stress, and your body reacts to stress by releasing hormones including adrenaline, you get a good sleep when your body respond to stress.
6. Reach Your Fitness Goals
As mentioned earlier, waking up early in the morning to exercise places a high priority on physical fitness. Whether you are aware of it or not, early morning exercise helps you reach your fitness goal faster than exercise during any other time of the day.
7. Love Your Life
Do I even need to argue this one? You have created a strong habit of morning exercise, your metabolism is flowing, your body is looking and feeling better, you’re sleeping well at night, and your mind is as sharp as ever. Aren't you enjoying your new life yet? Exercise has been touted as a cure for just about anything that ails you. So, while it might not seem enjoyable to get out of the bed to exercise, you can be sure that it is worth it. Aside from all the benefits that come with being healthier, your brain is literally going to its “happy place” when you exercise.
But I Hate Mornings!😰
The benefits of morning exercise are pretty evident, but that doesn’t necessarily make it easy to become a morning workout person if, well, you hate waking up in the morning. If it’s incredibly tough to drag yourself out of bed to do your morning workout , then try establishing a few “rules” that will help make the adjustment more likely to succeed:
Rule #1: Put Your Alarm Far Away
If you have a hard time waking up in the morning, set a loud alarm and place it all the way on the other side of the room. A gentle buzz from a cell phone beside your bed won’t cut it. Force yourself to get up.
Rule #2: Keep Moving
Don’t go to the shower and don’t sit down for breakfast (or to check your email).
Go put on your exercise clothes (which you laid out the night before), and get moving!
Rule #3: Give Yourself Something To Look Forward To
If you’re going to get up and do a workout you hate, you can only expect this morning routine to last for so long. Make sure that your morning workout is something you look forward to.
Rule #4: Don’t Skip The Warm-up
You don’t need to spend 20 minutes stretching to get flexible, but you do need to limber up those muscles that are stiff from a night of sleep. Make sure to spend at least 5 or 10 minutes warming up with light movements before you ramp up the intensity.
Rule #5: Keep It Short
Who has 2 hours to spend exercising in the morning? Not too many people, but nearly everyone can find 30 to 40 minutes if exercise is a priority. Whatever you do, make it short so that you have plenty of time to shower, eat breakfast, and get to work on time.
Final Point: Morning Exercise Nutrition
Drink! Drink!! Drink!!! Your body is dehydrated after sleeping all night. Drink 1 glass of water (250ml) before you begin your workout, and another glass for every 20 minutes you spend exercising. Sports drinks are only necessary if your workout is going to very intense or long in duration (i.e. 2 hours+).
Now You Can Feast😋
Eat immediately after your workout to refuel your body and prepare you for your day.
Lots of early morning exercisers complain of a ravenous appetite by mid-morning. If your post-workout breakfast never satisfies you, you’re not eating the right foods . A proper post-workout morning meal supplies ample amounts of calories, carbohydrates, protein, and some healthy fat.
A Challenge For You👌
If you’re not a morning exerciser and you think you might be missing out, then I have a challenge for you…Grab your calendar and schedule what time and what type of exercise you’re going to do in the mornings for the next week. If you can make it through one week of morning exercise then you can do it again (and do it – put it in the calendar!). Then do it again for the following week…and again…
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