“Aurora aurum in ore habet “ or, as we often hear people say, “The early bird catches the worm”. But is that what you think when the alarm goes off and you have to get ready for your 7 a.m. training session? It is worth pointing out that waking up early is a favourite habit of great leaders and powerful people. Go on, admit it….that makes you feel so much better?!
As if that was not enough, recent studies* have shown that evening training:
1. Allows you to perform better because the body temperature is higher in the afternoon.
2. Allows you to train harder because your strength reaches its peak and your muscles are looser.
3. Allows you to recover from the stress that has built up during the day.
So what makes you climb out from under your nice warm quilt, put on your swimming suit that is still a bit wet from the day before and keep on saying to yourself, as if it was some sort of mantra “Okay, go on…one stroke after the other”!?
Only you know the answer to that and it will certainly be better than any study on the topic.
Nevertheless, it is a good thing to know beforehand how your body will react when training in the early morning.
Your cortisol level (also known as the stress hormone) is at its highest in the early morning,…
