The study authors say the findings suggest a “one-size fits-all” approach to exercise timing is less than ideal.<\/p>\n
A mismatch between biological and social schedules or “social jetlag” has been linked to increased heart risk. <\/p>\n
Night owls can be at greater risk of this, they add, meaning they shouldn’t force early morning exercise routines.<\/p>\n
Some gyms now stay open all hours, night and day. <\/p>\n
Hugh Hanley, head of personal training at PureGym, says Monday and Tuesday evenings are typical peak busy times but, increasingly, people are spreading out the hours they train. <\/p>\n
“One thing we have noticed over the last few years is people are actually prioritising their health more, bringing in more flexibility.”<\/p>\n
He says the key to staying fit is consistency – creating a habit of movement, building it into your lifestyle. <\/p>\n
“Doing it regularly is better than one or two blasts.<\/p>\n
“We see a lot of the time that people set too big a goal initially. We’d always rather they break it into small bite-sized goals that are achievable.”<\/p>\n
The trend at the moment, he says, is strength training. “We’re seeing a big rise… across all generations. The younger generation are definitely prioritising strength training, but even the older demographic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The study authors say the findings suggest a “one-size fits-all” approach to exercise timing is less than ideal.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[589,163,85,46],"class_list":["post-392532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}