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Once you start exercising more and get use to it, you'll have to be careful when you do your exercise. I find that anything that blasts my heart rate into high
by icegreentea 16y ago
Once you start exercising more and get use to it, you'll have to be careful when you do your exercise. I find that anything that blasts my heart rate into high (+140.. guess its all relative though) for long periods of time (more than 30 minutes) will prevent me from sleeping for the next ~2-4 hours. I'll sleep fine afterwards, but during that time, trying to sleep is a usually a lost cause.
There are always exceptions though, and it really varies from body to body.
The basic advice being 'listen to your body' and 'adjust to how your body reacts' applies to everything to do with exercise.
(Also, noticing your note about 20 minutes transit. Strongly consider running/biking to the gym. Dunno what type of weather you have over there, but in anything above -10, you should be fine with a 10 minute run with sweatpants over shorts and a sweater. Just bring one of those satchet bags with shoes, lock, extra jacket or something. You'll save time, and feel badass when you bounce into the gym heart already pounding, and a few randoms looking at you going 'wow, he's ready')
- wwkeyboard 16y agoYou should try exercising in the morning. Lay out your running stuff before you go to bed. In the morning get out of bed and off for your run before you feel to tired to talk yourself out of it. This will also remove the 2-3 hour brain warm-up time most people seem to have.
- dkarl 16y agoUnfortunately, there's a body warm-up, too. Your spine is particularly vulnerable to injury right after you get out of bed because fluid accumulates in the discs overnight. As far as I know, running is fine for people with no existing back injuries, but anything that loads or rotates your spine is iffy. You're 90% back to normal an hour after getting up, though, so if you can find something to do in the meantime without falling asleep again, you're golden.
- sudont 16y agoYep on the spine thing. A morning workout is a good way to get metabolism up after resting, but anybody training (except for marathons, which largely start in the morning) should work out at night, when the body is more efficient. A workout in the morning now and then helps, as the body isn't accustomed to working out in that time period. It's similar to the way a lifter changes workout structure to prevent the muscle from getting accustomed to a particular lift.
- joelg87 16y agoLove the ideas here. Thanks!
- atomical 16y agoIt's better to warmup by starting slowly to avoid injury.
- icegreentea 16y agoThis is true. But once you've gotten in the groove of exercising, then a 10 minute jog/run to the gym from cold should not be a problem if there's no underlying problems. If all your doing at the gym is weights, then that jog/run is most of the warmup you'll need. Just throw up some stretching to deal with any kinks and a warmup set and you're good.