Travel Health and Fitness - Do you adjust your workout times based on where you are (time zone changes)

Was thinking of this when I woke up 3 hours before the alarm was due to ring :mad:

Do you adjust your workout times to where you are? I was thinking of overseas travel, but domestic w/ dif time zones will do it too.

If you're a morning person, do you switch to evening when the morning workout might be middle of the night, that type of thing? Or get up earlier in the am than you'd like to do so?

Think you know what I mean.

Cheers.

Not too much. I work out after work whatever time that is (6pm....8pm...10pm...whenever).

I THINK if I gained a bunch of time traveling west that I might get up more often for morning workouts but 1 timezone (pacific) isn't enough ;)

I've always been more of a morning workout person & when I'm in London & it's morning, that's nighttime my time & I have a tougher time making the effort to get up. Or when I lived in LA but was in NYC the early wake up was also middle of night for me.

Cheers.

I usually try to stick to somewhat normal, as that helps my body adjust to the new time.

Last year I was in the UK for 2 weeks, I think an 8 hour difference from AZ. The first day was all the arrival mess, then the next day I woke up around 6 for a morning run, and felt pretty good (fantastic weather compared with AZ in August, and I got a jump start on some sightseeing). I mostly did morning running, although I did one evening in Edinburgh (we finished sightseeing for the day, had time so went for it). For swimming, I'm usually at the mercy of whatever team/facility limitations there are (and in London it is mostly evenings unless I want to swim with the group at the Serpentine).

I have found that a workout on the arrival day will help me sleep much better that first night, although I usually have little problem getting to sleep.

I've always been more of a morning workout person

I wish! I hate mornings ;)

I do drag myself on occasion but not often enough.

I think the benefit of morning is you get up and get it out of the way. No worries about your day going hay wire and missing a PM workout. ^

I wish! I hate mornings ;)

I do drag myself on occasion but not often enough.

I think the benefit of morning is you get up and get it out of the way. No worries about your day going hay wire and missing a PM workout. ^

Agree completely. I'd love to be a morning runner but I just hate mornings. :(