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Finding the ideal time to exercise is usually a common excuse among the residents of Spain, although it is probably a common mindset around the world: work schedules and the thousand and one professions of modern life leave little room for maneuver on the daily agenda.
However, if you can find a space for physical activity, studies have already figured out when the best time would be: no matter what time of the day, but must always be the same.
This was suggested by a study conducted by researchers at the Brown Alpert School of Medicine of the United States of the year 2019. According to this study, it does not matter whether you exercise in the morning or in the afternoon or if you want to keep losing or lose weight: the most important thing is consistency and keeping a regular schedule.
Currently, the new guidelines for exercise Ministry of Health and Human Services from the US suggest that at least two and a half hours of moderate physical activity per week to stay healthy, advocate at least 10 minutes of exercise in each sessionalthough accumulating throughout the day: better doing something than nothing.
If you’re already in shape, meeting this minimum pact in terms of practice time isn’t usually complicated, but there aren’t a few people who have a hard time reaching it. In fact, maintaining or losing body weight is often the biggest obstacle of all.
That’s why the Brown Alpert researchers analyzed the results of a study of physical activity among 375 people who exercised with the goal of losing weight. In this case a significant one relationship between moderate or vigorous exercise, always performed at the same time, and the amount of time you spend exercising.
In total, half of those surveyed exercised in the morning, suggesting that physical activity should preferably be performed during this time, as previous studies also suggested. However, the current study suggests that this preference for regularity is due to the way everyone organizes the day.
The system key it wouldn’t be time itself, though the fact that it happens automatically. That is, exercise should not ‘fit’ into a daily schedule in a compulsory way, but should be something that flows and is easy in daily practice: if you try to think it is active a lot more likely to decrease the time that is devoted to total exercise.
So, according to the researchers, the secret It would be to associate the exercise with an already existing mental signal. It is to say, make it another scheduled event from day to day, always during the same hours, as another activity within the daily schedule: if you have to fit in one way each day, motivating yourself to exercise will be much more complicated.
In addition, based on the survey results, they suggest that exercising in the same place repeatedly would also help establish a better relationship with physical activity.
Still, they remember that since their results are based exactly on a self-reported survey, the information can go up to some extent. Other individual motivations of each individual cannot be ruled out, off the regular schedule or a specific place to exercise. It cannot be ruled out that there is indeed a certain time better than another when someone starts exercising for the first time.