Getting up and going to the gym in the morning when you are over 50 is a must do for several reasons.
For starters, waiting until after a full day of work to get to the gym results in a much less enthusiastic workout. Not only have your batteries run down by the time you get there, but the wait to use equipment is 10X more than what it is in the morning.
Actually, the wait is 100X more than what it is in the morning, because in the evening there are hoards of young people crowding the gym and clustering around every rack, bench, machine or weight station, much less the aerobics equipment - that is not the case in the morning.
The kids generally sleep in, while those of us with more than five decades under our belts get up.
Secondly, not only is the gym much less crowded in the morning it is a whole heckuva lot cleaner. In fact if you go to a gym in the morning that has not been thoroughly cleaned overnight, you need to find another gym.
BTW, for my purposes "morning" is the time between 5:30am and 9:00am.
Third, you will be much more comfortable socially in the morning simply because you are more likely to find yourself amidst your own kind at that time - by "your own kind" I of course mean people over fifty trying to maintain at least a modicum of fitness without hurting themselves.
Which leads directly to fourth.
Fourth is the benefit of being able to share in a game I call Injury roulette. If you are over fifty and working out (in the morning or in the evening, or whenever) you are very likely going to pull or strain or over-torque some part of you that you do not want to pull or strain or over-torque.
It just happens, no matter how careful you are, no matter how much you stretch, no matter how often you swear to yourself you are going to take it easy and not delude yourself with the belief you can still do what you did when you were thirty.
Lastly, you get to either eavesdrop on or participate in conversations that are spectacularly different that those you may have had in gyms when you were younger.
Remember the conversations that you had in the gym when you were younger? They usually contained words or statements such as "personal best," or "heavy day," or "you got this," and of course, "Those Zubaz look great on you."
BTW, Zubaz can still be purchased - https://zubaz.com/ (unpaid plug)
Conversations in the gym when you're five decades in contain words or statements such as "probably a tear but could be an impingement," or "appointment next week to have it drained," or "Are you trying to hurt yourself?" and of course, "Those shoes look comfortable, where'd you get them?"
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