Best Time to Workout
The morning clock goes off and a new day begins. What is the first thing that you do? Some hit the snooze button and go back to sleep while others jump out of bed to start their day. In the world we live in today we are trying to stretch out every hour, every minute, and every second to get the most out of life.
With that being said many people wonder when it comes to working out how can they make the best of it. Recently there has been a craze about whether working out in the morning is better than working out at night or during the day.
There's been this notion that if you workout first thing in the morning on an empty stomach then you will increase the amount of fat you burn as oppose to working out after eating something.
It sounds just about right doesn't it? If you workout without eating anything then the energy must come from the body itself right? That means we can burn the fat that's stored in our body. The opposite of this thinking is that if you eat and then workout that you're just burning off the food you just ate.
But that is not necessarily true. When it comes to fat loss, your focus should be on burning more calories than you are taking in(caloric deficit) and implementing strategies that will raise your resting metabolic rate, which is responsible for over 65% of your caloric expenditure.
So what does this all mean?
If you workout on an empty stomach and you do a workout that burns 300 calories and compare it to someone who eats first and then does the same workout and also burn approximately 300 calories also then there's basically no difference on whether you do it at a time where you have an empty stomach or not.
When it comes to working out, the best advice is to just get it done. It does not matter if you're hungry, if you have an empty stomach, morning, night, day, outside, inside, just get it done. When you workout does not matter as much as how hard you workout and what type of work out you're performing when it comes to fat loss.
Hopefully I've clarified this rising myth.
