Changing your workout time can make a difference

For a person that despises New Year's resolutions as much as I do, I will admit it is the perfect time to re-evaluate things. Since I am in a mass building cycle ( I have decided to NOT fight my bodies natural instinct to add weight during the winter), getting the most out of my workout is even more important.

After some reflection, and research on my previous workouts, something I can do because I keep a log, I discovered that I always seemed to add a little more muscle if my workouts were in the morning. I have always kind of felt this was the case, but never really checked it out. When I was doing the majority of my morning workouts in the past, I was living a life style that made for some "rough" mornings. Naturally I assumed that this held me back (which I am sure that it did), but so much so that I thought that looking at my results during this period would be useless. Turns out I might have been doing a little better than I thought.

This has led me to try morning workouts again. My winter work schedule makes it possible, and my life style is such now that I am up, awake and rested most mornings at 4:45. So gym time between 6 and 9 am is very doable.

Today is the 8th day of the new year and will be my 5th morning workout, and I would say it's in my head, but even if it is at this point so what, but I FEEL much stronger coming out of the holidays than I have in a couple years. Has training in the morning helped? Well, obviously my energy level is better in the morning than after a full days work. So even though I am trying to push in the evening workouts, that days life has already beaten me down some. It's too early to tell if I am really making a difference by training in the morning, but I can say this for sure right now:

If your workouts have gotten a bit stale, instead of trying different Weight Lifting Routines, take a couple days to rest and try a couple weeks of a different time of day for your sessions. I have a good feeling that it will make a big difference.