Why exercising later in the day may improve your metabolic health

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Evening exercise may be more potent than morning workouts for improving metabolic health, according to a helpful new study of exercise timing.

For the new study, which was published in May in Diabetologia, scientists affiliated with the Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research at Australian Catholic University in Fitzroy,, and other institutions, set out to control people’s diets while tinkering with their workout timing.

The meals consisted of about 65 percent fat, since the researchers wished to learn how exercise timing might affect fat metabolism, as well as blood-sugar control. The volunteers ate the unctuous foods, and nothing else, for five days and visited the lab for more tests. Then the scientists divided them into three groups. One would start exercising every day at 6.30am, another at 6.30pm, and the last would remain sedentary, as a control.

Early-morning exercise, meanwhile, did little to mitigate those effects. The morning exercisers showed the same heightened cholesterol and worrisome molecular patterns in their blood as the control group. The upshot of these findings is that “the evening exercise reversed or lowered some of the changes” that accompanied the high-fat diet, says Trine Moholdt, an exercise scientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, who led the study in Australia as a visiting researcher. “Morning exercise did not.”

 

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