Cardio Tip: DO IT IN THE A.M.
If you do your cardio at night, you still burn calories during the session, but you fail to take advantage of the afterburn effect because your metabolic rate drops dramatically as soon as you go to sleep. One study demonstrated that subjects burned a kilogram (2.2 lb) of fat sooner when they exercised in a fasted (empty-stomach) state in the morning than when they did it later in the day or evening.
If you do your cardio at night, you still burn calories during the session, but you fail to take advantage of the afterburn effect because your metabolic rate drops dramatically as soon as you go to sleep. One study demonstrated that subjects burned a kilogram (2.2 lb) of fat sooner when they exercised in a fasted (empty-stomach) state in the morning than when they did it later in the day or evening.
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