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The saying goes that summer bodies are made in winter, but when the alarm goes off at 5 a.m. and the only thing that waits you in the bleak cold is a round of burpees and some high-knees, you can guarantee that well merely hit snooze and sink deeper into the comfy, warm caress of multiple blankets and a hot water bottle.

Working out in adulthood is hard enough. Sure as a kid youd have a lunch break in which school ovals and parks were turned into makeshift soccer tournaments, or the monkey bars demanded strength out of your teeny-tiny twig arms. But come adulthood, this spontaneous desire to exercise is harder and more difficult to generate.

You cant just decide on a whim to run around outside on your work break. Youve got to prepare for it: not only do you have to have the gear and motivation, but then youve got to pack enough deodorant and grooming supplies in your arsenal to ensure that when you do get back to your desk, youre not the most pungent person on the office floor with a B.O. so bad it practically becomes its own live entity.

Consequently, if you cant make it to the gym in the morning or lunch, but manage to find the courage to head out for a workout after a six or even eight hour day, we salute you. Science however, is a little less enthusiastic.

According to a recent study called Midwest Exercise Trial 2, people who exercise before noon seem to lose more weight compared to those who complete the same workout later in the day.

Results from the study drew on 100 overweight young men and women participants, who worked out five times a week at a physiology lab where they jogged or performed another exercise that would make them sweat. Each person would work out until they had burned about 600 calories. Participants worked out any time between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. and after 10 months of the trial everyone had lost weight, but the numbers varied greatly.

As researchers began to examine the results closer, they found that the exercise schedules of participants had a huge impact on the amount of weight lost. Those who worked out before noon had lost more weight on average than others who hit the gym after 3 p.m.

They also discovered that early exercisers were more likely to be more active throughout the rest of the day, and ate less than their counterparts (although the study notes that the food difference was only about 100 calories.

Erik Willis, a data analyst with the Centre for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the University of North Carolina, believes there may be a correlation between early morning exercise and weight loss, but says more research needs to be done specifically in this area.

Ultimately, any exercise is good exercise. Lets face it some of us just dont have the inclination to get up in the morning, and when youve got early morning meetings and a full-day of work, even finding time to squeeze in a work out at all is a battle. So to find out that your late night gym session might not be as beneficial as pounding the pavement in the darkness that precedes the dawn, tell them theyre having a laugh!

Even as Ellis suggests, exercising at any time is beneficial for your health. I would not want anyone to think that its not worth exercising if you cant do it first thing in the morning, he said in an interview with Mens Health. Any exercise, at any time of the day, is going to be better than none.

via gq.com.au

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