What is the best time of day for jogging/biking for cardio fitness?
It sort of depends on a few things, the type of exercise involved in jogging or biking, whether or not you can eat on your breaks during work. The reason it’s best to workout in the morning or afternoon as opposed to exercising in the evening is the post-exercise NUTRITION, all gains made from any exercise happen during the rest stage, muscle repair increases your strength and stamina, post-oxygen consumption promotes the use of glycogen during rest. Which burns fat and increases your stamina. If you do not eat after cardio exercise, your body will eventually resort to catabolism for energy. Basically that means you will lose some muscle instead of fat when what you want is all weight loss to be fat. Your body doesn’t see “calories per day” like many people do, so if you exercise then can’t eat at work and your body is short of carbs your body will adapt to the higher rmr (resting metabolic rate) by synthesizing the protiens from your muscles. So lets say you can exercise at 8 am but t
