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Offline PenskeFile

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Workout times
« on: August 24, 2006, 08:37:37 AM »
Devany has been posting a lot about sleep lately and in one post someone mentioned that HGH is released during deep sleep.  This got me to thinking about the issue of workout times.

Lately, I've been working out after I put my kids to bed about 9:00.   I'll lift for about 45 minutes and then maybe do my elliptical trainer for 30 minutes.  Then I'll go to bed about 10:30 or 11:00.

Does this help, hinder, or not affect HGH production?  I would think that it might help since I believe HGH production is also stimulated by the effects of a workout.  However, I belive Art works out in the morning and I'm sure he would have considered this angle.

Maybe it's just a question of "release" versus "production".  The workout may trigger the "production" of HGH, but it is stored and not "released" until a deep sleep.  I just want to make sure that I don't lose any of what I work to produce.

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Re: Workout times
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2006, 04:56:26 AM »
There is something about a morning workout

Not that I always do them but when I can I feel the best during that time and you're set up for a productive day

Have worked out at all times of the day

Try them all and see which one you prefer

I have worked out at all times of the day

But obviously you can think Paleo and imagine when our ancestors hunted

Typically animals are out around sunrise and sunset so one of those times is probably best

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Re: Workout times
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2006, 03:57:38 PM »
I found when I was riding my pushbike to work that I felt great all day, although by the afternoon, the ride home was a killer, still I felt good after it, just not as good as after the morning ride.
I generally do physical work sometimes quite intense, so perhaps by the end of the day I've used up most of my bodies resources, accounting for the lesser feeling. Possibly a bit of dehydration involved as well as I am out in the sun all day.
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Re: Workout times
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2007, 03:30:13 PM »
Two circadian 'high points' as far as physical activity capacity- essentially where you are your strongest, fastest, most enduring [you choose]:

a primary peak in the late afternoon [anywhere from 1400- 1600 hrs local time, with the bell curve running ~1500- 1700 hrs]

a secondary peak in the mid-morning [anywhere from 0800- 1200 hrs local with the bell curve peaking ~0900-1100hrs]

These are not absolute, individual propensity can shott the curve into the trash.

Training can release the most hGH when performed immediately upon arising, in a fasted state [water only] as this tends to simulate a 'fight or flight' response.

incidientally , the am/pm peaks kind of sort of mimic the predators hunting times.

The universal circadian low is ~ 0200-0400 hrs local- when most natural deaths/ births occur.

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Re: Workout times
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2008, 09:29:54 PM »
I've read that you shouldn't exercise within three hours of bedtime, as it can keep you from getting to sleep. But, I guess it varies from person to person. I suffer from sleep apnea (used to have restless legs syndrome, too, but the paleo diet has "cured" that) and occasional insomnia (though that, too, has been greatly reduced since I've been on the diet). So, getting as much sleep as I can is especially important, as what I get is interrupted during the night. The sleep apnea has become milder, though, as a result of the diet and I believe this is because when I was losing all that fat, some of it was lost from the fatty pharyngeal tissues of my throat, which constrict my airway during sleep. As these tissues shrank in size, due to fat loss, they became less of a stricture to my airway, thus, my breathing isn't interrupted as much as it used to be.

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Re: Workout times
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2008, 09:29:54 PM »