July 25, 2022
“Here we show for the first time that for women, exercise during the morning reduces belly fat and blood pressure, whereas evening exercise in women increases upper body muscular strength, power, and endurance, and improves overall mood and nutritional satiety.”
“We also show that for men, evening exercise lowers blood pressure, the risk of heart disease, and feelings of fatigue, and burns more fat, compared to morning exercise.”
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“Our study clearly demonstrates the benefits of both morning and evening multimodal (RISE = Resistence, Interval, Stretch, Endurance) exercise to improve cardiometabolic and mood health, as well as physical performance outcomes in women and men,” said Arciero.
But crucially, they also show that ETOD (Exercise Time Of Day) determines the strength of improvements in physical performance, body composition, cardiometabolic health, and mood.
For example, all female participants reduced their total body fat, abdominal and hip fat, and blood pressure over the trial, but these improvements were greater in morning-exercising women. Only evening-exercising men showed a decrease in their ratio of total to HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, respiratory exchange ratio, and carbohydrate oxidation, as fat became the preferred fuel source.
Read more at this link:
https://scitechdaily.com/changing-what-time-you-exercise-can-help-you-lose-more-weight/amp/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.893783/full