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 Just like I have always said, exercising in the morning is excellent time management. (What does 45 minutes less sleep matter when you can start the day on an endorphin-rich high?!) We know that morning exercise significantly raises the metabolic rate for the day, it has now been proven to in fact be easier in the early hours.
An article in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise cites
research that shows exercise endurance is greater in the morning than
in the evening. The study involved men who had to cycle in the morning
and evening until they were exhausted. They rode in conditions
resembling the hot Australian summer: 35°C and 60 per cent humidity.
Their average time to exhaustion was significantly longer in the
morning than the evening: 46 minutes versus 41 minutes. The greater
morning endurance is most likely due to re-exercise body temperature being lower earlier in the day.
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