Physical Intelligence - Day 28
CityVP Manjit
Leaving things for the last possible moment has been the gym exercise story for several days. I've got into the gym between 1am and 3am, even though I actually feel sleepy, and it would be easy to use sleep as an excuse to forgo exercise altogether, but there is some deeper reason within that I cannot quite fathom, that brings me to the brink but still meet my daily challenge.
I am logging this before today's gym session with the time approaching 10:30pm. Having logged this account, what has been par for course this time around, it does not motivate me to go directly to the gym and it is most likely that I will engage in other activities until the last one that is left is the gym and so I follow through at great expense of sleep - which has been a continual challenge in terms of being physically intelligent about sleep.
In the world of instant alwayson opinion, it is good idea for me to see what virtual world says about late night exercise :
There are no shortage of exercise opinions and in "Is it Bad to Exercise at Night" the one point that hit home is that late night exercise raises the body core temperature and we sleep better when that is cooling down. That explains why completing exercise at 3am has seen me finally get rest at 5:30am. I can see the linkage that this entertaining video details.
The next question is eating late at night after the gym, which is not the best thing to do when we have not hit the gym but in this 90 second video the fitness instructor talks about nutrient uptake vs. not eating and I found this opinion to have interesting factors for consideration :
What I am inclined to see is to associate discipline with morning activity or at least between 2pm and 6pm the latest, but no gym after 6pm unless something is weighing on my mind and fitness serves as form of interrupting our thoughts or mental condition. I don't need to watch these video's to teach me that late night exercise is not a good idea, but recognize tidbits of information which may serve to underscore the change of these deferral habits.
Finally I am tapping into another video from Fitness Blender who provide a 10 minute perspective to the question "Best Time of Day to Workout"
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