Morning workout benefits - backed by science | EP#58

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

If you want to stay consistent in your training (it's the number one way to improve performance, so you should) then working out in the morning is your best bet to make sure you don't miss workouts. But there are other benefits to morning workouts than just consistency. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: Practical tips for getting the most out of your morning workouts (incl. warm-up, fueling, etc.) When to train fasted and when not to How morning workouts may make you burn more calories (the EPOC effect) and sleep better Why even though some research indicates that endurance performance may be peaking in the afternoon or evening, this effect is reversible through adaptations (ie. working out in the morning) How the potential performance boost later in the day likely doesn't apply to triathletes anyway due to a) mental fatigue due to cognitively demanding jobs and b) typical race start times LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). NOTES: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	That Traathlon Show, episode 58.
0:18.5	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:20.0	Welcome back to That Triathlon show, the podcast presented by
0:24.3	Scientifictriathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and on today's episode we will talk about the benefits
0:31.8	of training in the morning, both from a practical perspective and I also mention a few of the scientifically
0:39.5	valid reasons why you should consider training in the morning.
0:44.3	As part of your training at least, I'm not saying that you need to do every single workout
0:48.2	in the morning and it's not possible, obviously, if you do double workout days.
0:54.0	But I do believe that there are some great benefits for most age groupers that train maybe just once a day.
1:01.9	And for them, there might be several benefits to switching to a morning workout routine.
1:07.9	The structure of today's episode will be first talking about these benefits and listing
1:14.0	them out. Then I'll give some practical tips for how to do your morning workouts so that you
1:19.5	get the most out of them. And then we will talk about the potential con of morning workouts.
1:26.2	And that is maximum performance because there is some evidence to
1:29.6	suggest that you may be able to perform better in the afternoon or evening and we'll cover that
1:35.2	and talk about the science and evidence behind it and how to take these things into account
1:40.2	when scheduling workouts so that you can get the most out of your training as a whole
1:45.4	when looking at it from a big picture perspective. All right, so let's get into it with first
1:51.6	starting to discuss the benefits of training in the morning.
1:58.7	So the first point that I want to make is that when you train in the morning, you just get it done.
2:04.5	It's a time management benefit.
2:07.5	It may sound like a bit of tough love for those saying that they don't have time to train as much as they want to.
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