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":531314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-531313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}