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Finding the ideal time to exercise is often a common excuse among the people of Spain, although it is probably a widespread way of thinking around the world: working hours and the thousand and one occupations of modern life leave little room of maneuver in the daily agenda.
However, if you are able to find a hole for physical activity, studies have already figured out when would be the best time: so is the time of the day, however it must always be the same.
This was suggested by a study conducted by researchers at Brown Alpert School of Medicine of the United States in 2019. According to this work, it does not matter if you exercise in the morning or in the afternoon if you are looking to maintain or lose weight: the important thing is perseverance and maintaining a fixed schedule.
Currently the new physical activity guides of the Department of Health and Human Services of the US suggest that it should be done, at least two and a half hours of moderate physical activity a week to stay healthy, advocating to perform at least 10 minutes of exercise in each session, Although accumulative during the day: better to do something than nothing.
If you are already in shape, meeting this minimum pact in terms of exercise time is not usually complicated, but there are many individuals who have difficulty achieving it. In fact, maintaining or lowering body weight is usually the most important obstacle of all.
Thus, Brown Alpert researchers analyzed the results of a survey of physical activity conducted on 375 people who exercised with the goal of losing weight. In this case, a significant one was identified relationship between a moderate or intense level of exercise, always performed at the same time, and the amount of time spent exercising.
In total, half of the respondents exercised in the mat, which could indicate that physical activity should be performed preferably during this time, as previous studies have also suggested. However, in the current study it is suggested that this preference for regularity should be due to the way each person organizes the day.
the system key it would not be the hour itself, but the fact that it is done automatically. That is, it should not “fit” exercise within a daily schedule, necessarily, but something that flows and is easy within the day to day: if you try to think actively, it’s a lot more likely to be reduced in time which is devoted to total exercise.
So, according to researchers, the secret it would be to associate exercise with some pre-existing mental signal. In other words that is, make it a more day-to-day scheduled event, Always during the same schedule, as one more activity within the daily agenda: if you have to fit each day in a way, motivating yourself to exercise will be much more complicated.
In addition, they also suggest that exercising repeatedly in the same place would also help establish a better relationship with physical activity, based on survey results.
However, they recall, since their results are based precisely on a self-reported survey, the information can reach a certain point. Other individualized motivations of each individual cannot be discerned, Beyond the fixed schedule or a specific place to exercise. It couldn’t be ruled out if there really is one specific time better than another, when someone is going to start exercising for the first time.