7 to 9 am is the best time to lose weight
Moderate to vigorous exercise between 7 am and 9 am is the best time to lose weight.
Do you want to lose weight? It's time to get up early.
According to Isna, citing Health, the results of a new research show that moderate to intense exercise between 7 am and 9 am is the best time to lose weight. Researchers at Franklin Pierce University in the United States found that people who exercise early in the morning have a lower body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Interestingly, this group was the most sedentary among athletes in the morning, noon and evening.
“This new research is exciting and fits with a common tip for achieving exercise goals: schedule a morning workout before email, phone calls, or meetings that might distract you,” says clinical psychologist Dr. Rebecca Krukowski. .
“Our findings suggest that the daily pattern of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity can be another important dimension to describe the complexity of human movement,” said Dr. Tang and Ma, assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Franklin Pierce University.
Our study provided a new tool to examine the pattern of daily physical activity and investigate its impact on health outcomes.
Historically, most research has focused on the frequency, intensity, and duration of physical activity, and few have considered how the timing of exercise may affect outcomes. It was also previously unknown whether achieving 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity per week would have the same obesity-reducing effect, regardless of when.
To address this issue, researchers analyzed data from 5,285 individuals from the 2003 to 2006 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the purposes of this study, which was published in the journal Obesity, the participants' daily activity was divided into morning, mid-day, and evening categories.
Morning athletes not only had a lower body mass index and waist circumference, but also reported a healthier diet and consumed fewer calories relative to their body weight than the other groups. Interestingly, the morning group logged more sedentary time, but their superior health measures persisted.
Demographically, the morning athletes were on average 10 to 13 years older than the participants in the other two groups. This group also included a higher percentage of women and was predominantly non-Hispanic white. Most had a college degree or higher, and a significant majority had never used tobacco or alcohol.
“It's unclear whether people who consistently exercise in the morning might be systematically different from people who exercise at other times in ways not measured in this study,” Krukowski says. .
“For example, people who exercise regularly in the morning can have more predictable schedules, including being less likely to have shift work or fewer caregiving responsibilities that interfere with morning exercise,” Krukowski continued. Have.”
Predictable schedules may have other beneficial effects such as sleep length/quality and stress level on weight that were not measured in this study. Additionally, early risers who consistently wake up early enough for morning exercise may be biologically different from their nocturnal counterparts.
Professor Krukowski, co-director of the Center for Community-Based Health Equity, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, was not involved in this research.
