kkay313
New member
Ok, just a little background: I am 26 years old. I started weight watchers 7 months ago, and have lost 65lbs since. I am very good about my eating. Even though i slip up every once in a while. I have been walking and jogging, doing sit ups and arms curls, and have even went so far as to dance around in my basement for cardio.
I work a weird shift. 430pm-1230am monday through friday, waking up around noon, and going to bed around 430am. I am really a night person, so this works out good for me. When i first started, i was doing my excersize during the day before work. But, as i said, i am a total night person, and after about 6 months, the "morning routine" just wasnt working for me anymore. I have a stressful job, and really like to take my mornings to relax and do stuff around the house. So for about 2 months, i have been really slacking on my excersize. Cutting it down to 2 or 3 times a week.
I want to join a 24 hour gym, becuase i feel that working out at night, after work, would really be better for me.
My question is this:
Is there a signifigant difference between working out in the mornings or the evenings? Factoring in my work shift? I realize that working out everyday at night is better then hardly working out in the mornings at all, but, i was looking for a specific answer to whether, with my eating, i would lose some of the benefit of working out all together, if i were working out at night.
Right now, my days look like this:
Noon, wake up
1230-1pm breakfest
1:30-2/230pm, working out ( i HATE IT!!, but i do it anyway)
3-4 get ready for work
430 start work
530 small snack, coffee
630 veggies
8pm lunch, usually a lean cuisine frozen dinner
930 fruit snack, coffee
1230am get off work
1am dinner/stuff around the house, relax
4am, bed
This is what i am thinking:
Noon, wake up
1230-1pm breakfest
1:30-2/230pm, relax, stuff around the house
3-4 get ready for work
430 start work
530 small snack, coffee
630 veggies
8pm dinner at work, usually a lean cuisine frozen dinner, maybe add a bit of food to make it "dinner"
930 fruit snack, coffee
1230am get off work
1am-330am: work out
4am, light meal
430am bed
Basically, how would my body react, (sleep wise, calorie burning wise, food wise) by switching my workout to late night. My roomie says i wont burn as many calories, and it will affect my sleep. Is this true?
I work a weird shift. 430pm-1230am monday through friday, waking up around noon, and going to bed around 430am. I am really a night person, so this works out good for me. When i first started, i was doing my excersize during the day before work. But, as i said, i am a total night person, and after about 6 months, the "morning routine" just wasnt working for me anymore. I have a stressful job, and really like to take my mornings to relax and do stuff around the house. So for about 2 months, i have been really slacking on my excersize. Cutting it down to 2 or 3 times a week.
I want to join a 24 hour gym, becuase i feel that working out at night, after work, would really be better for me.
My question is this:
Is there a signifigant difference between working out in the mornings or the evenings? Factoring in my work shift? I realize that working out everyday at night is better then hardly working out in the mornings at all, but, i was looking for a specific answer to whether, with my eating, i would lose some of the benefit of working out all together, if i were working out at night.
Right now, my days look like this:
Noon, wake up
1230-1pm breakfest
1:30-2/230pm, working out ( i HATE IT!!, but i do it anyway)
3-4 get ready for work
430 start work
530 small snack, coffee
630 veggies
8pm lunch, usually a lean cuisine frozen dinner
930 fruit snack, coffee
1230am get off work
1am dinner/stuff around the house, relax
4am, bed
This is what i am thinking:
Noon, wake up
1230-1pm breakfest
1:30-2/230pm, relax, stuff around the house
3-4 get ready for work
430 start work
530 small snack, coffee
630 veggies
8pm dinner at work, usually a lean cuisine frozen dinner, maybe add a bit of food to make it "dinner"
930 fruit snack, coffee
1230am get off work
1am-330am: work out
4am, light meal
430am bed
Basically, how would my body react, (sleep wise, calorie burning wise, food wise) by switching my workout to late night. My roomie says i wont burn as many calories, and it will affect my sleep. Is this true?
