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Morning or evening workouts: which raises daily energy expenditure more? In a 12-week trial, timing made no difference to resting metabolic rate or physical activity

Oct 27
3 min read

Morning training has a reputation as the fat-loss slot: train fasted at dawn, burn more all day. Evening training has its own fans who say you are stronger and move more. If either timing really changed how much energy you spend across the day, it would be a free lever for anyone dieting. A randomised trial designed to test exactly this suggests the clock matters less than doing the work.

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