I work out in the evening (8:30 to 10 roughly) during the week, and don’t find that it keeps me up. Maybe, as Coopersmith notes, the consistency of a routine is more important than the time in my case. I’d like to be one of those people who gets to the gym in the morning just because then I have a better outlook on the day, but I can’t sustain getting up even earlier for more than a few days.
I find when I work out to late in the day that can’t fall a sleep. This presses on into the evening and causes me to start a panic attack, I have talk to my doctor and he sais that everything checks out (blood work and the hole 9). Have you ever heard of this before? I am concerned to continue working out thinking that it might be triggering an under laying medical condition. Know this is normal would certainly make me feel better.
I definitely notice a difference the one night a week I work out from 6:30 to 8:30. I’m a lousy sleeper in general but get less sleep that one night because I’m so keyed up and even tho I’m tired, I’m wide awake. The 3 days I work out in the morning, my workouts are better and so is my sleep.
Note to Chad: you might want to ask your doctor if you should wear a heart monitor for 24 hours, which should include your workout during that period. I was having a similar experience; the monitor detected a minor problem.
Well+Good
May 14th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Great to know about the heart monitor, Claudette! Thanks for the tip.
Re: Chad. Doing a traditional “hard” weight or worse, cardio workout in the evening can over stimulate your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight mechanism) which stimulates cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone that is normally higher in the a.m. and what wakes us up. So if you are over stimulating cortisol production with a late workout, particularly if you are like many ny’rs and already have autonomic nervous system imbalances (i.e. too much sympathetic not enough parasympathetic), you could be stimulating stress hormones which would definitely keep you up and stressed. You should look into your overall programming and lifestyle, including water intake, nutrient balance and workout intensity to make sure they are all appropriate for your current abilities. If your md says you’re all good, you probably just need to make adjustments specific to your needs.
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I work out in the evening (8:30 to 10 roughly) during the week, and don’t find that it keeps me up. Maybe, as Coopersmith notes, the consistency of a routine is more important than the time in my case. I’d like to be one of those people who gets to the gym in the morning just because then I have a better outlook on the day, but I can’t sustain getting up even earlier for more than a few days.
I find when I work out to late in the day that can’t fall a sleep. This presses on into the evening and causes me to start a panic attack, I have talk to my doctor and he sais that everything checks out (blood work and the hole 9). Have you ever heard of this before? I am concerned to continue working out thinking that it might be triggering an under laying medical condition. Know this is normal would certainly make me feel better.
I definitely notice a difference the one night a week I work out from 6:30 to 8:30. I’m a lousy sleeper in general but get less sleep that one night because I’m so keyed up and even tho I’m tired, I’m wide awake. The 3 days I work out in the morning, my workouts are better and so is my sleep.
Note to Chad: you might want to ask your doctor if you should wear a heart monitor for 24 hours, which should include your workout during that period. I was having a similar experience; the monitor detected a minor problem.
Great to know about the heart monitor, Claudette! Thanks for the tip.
Re: Chad. Doing a traditional “hard” weight or worse, cardio workout in the evening can over stimulate your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight mechanism) which stimulates cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone that is normally higher in the a.m. and what wakes us up. So if you are over stimulating cortisol production with a late workout, particularly if you are like many ny’rs and already have autonomic nervous system imbalances (i.e. too much sympathetic not enough parasympathetic), you could be stimulating stress hormones which would definitely keep you up and stressed. You should look into your overall programming and lifestyle, including water intake, nutrient balance and workout intensity to make sure they are all appropriate for your current abilities. If your md says you’re all good, you probably just need to make adjustments specific to your needs.