Disadvantages of morning jogging

Morning jogging is a very good exercise and has many benefits for people's health, such as helping the body lose weight, improving people's cardiopulmonary function, relieving stress and increasing appetite, etc. However, everything has its pros and cons. Morning jogging can also be harmful to people's health, such as easily causing hypoglycemia, cerebral thrombosis, etc. When facing morning jogging, people need to pay attention to its advantages and disadvantages. Let's introduce in detail what are the disadvantages of morning jogging?

Benefits of morning jogging

lose weight

After a night of metabolism, the sugar in the body is basically consumed. Waking up in the morning and running, especially running on an empty stomach, can allow the body to quickly enter the stage of consuming fat for energy, producing an ideal weight loss effect.

Less car exhaust

Going out for a run during a time when most people are still not leaving home for work or school will prevent you from inhaling a lot of exhaust fumes. Especially for those who choose to jog on the road in the morning, because there are fewer pedestrians and vehicles, the morning jog can be more convenient.

Get rid of the bad habit of sleeping late

Getting up in the morning for a jog means you can't sleep in, so morning jogging can help you get rid of the bad habit of sleeping in to a certain extent.

Improve lung capacity

As you run, your ventilation volume will gradually increase. Vital capacity and maximum ventilation volume are important indicators of the health of respiratory function. Morning jogging can make the respiratory function more developed and lung capacity can be increased to 1-2 liters.

Increase appetite

Morning jogging can enhance gastrointestinal motility, increase the secretion of digestive juices, improve digestion and absorption capabilities, and thus increase appetite.

Avoid making excuses for not exercising

Some office workers only have free time to exercise in the evening and in the morning before work. Relatively speaking, they have more free time in the evening. Many people think that if they exercise at night, they will have no time to relax. If you choose morning jogging, you don’t have to worry about this. After running in the morning, you can do whatever you want in your free time for the rest of the day. At the same time, it also avoids finding excuses to avoid exercise, such as being too tired after work or not having time to spend with family members.

Disadvantages of morning jogging

Prone to hypoglycemia

Morning is the time when the glycogen content in the body is the lowest. If you exercise and consume your body, it can easily cause hypoglycemia.

Can cause respiratory diseases

The carbon dioxide concentration is highest in the morning, and this is also the time when air dust is most serious. Going out for a morning run at this time can easily cause respiratory diseases.

Prone to blood clots

Morning is the time when the blood is most viscous and the platelet content in the blood is the highest at this time. Morning jogging causes water loss in the body, making the blood more and more viscous and may lead to blood clots.

May cause heart disease

Early morning is the peak time for heart attacks, when heart rate changes are most frequent and greatest. Jogging in the morning can easily lead to heart disease.

Notes on morning jogging

It is not advisable to eat breakfast before morning jogging

If you go for a morning run after eating breakfast, your stomach will not have blood supply for digestion, which can easily cause stomach pain during running, and may lead to gastric ulcers over time. But you can't eat on an empty stomach, as this can cause hypoglycemia. It’s best to refuel before a morning run. Such as drinking a small amount of boiled water or light salt water, eating a banana, etc.

Warm up before morning jogging

Many people go out and run directly in the morning, ignoring the warm-up exercises before running. But no matter what sport you do, warm-up exercises are important and can help you stretch your muscles. Morning jogging warm-up exercises can be done at home, by moving the knee and ankle joints more, stretching the legs, etc.

Morning jogging should last about 40 minutes.

Try to control the time of morning jogging to about 40 minutes. If the time is too short, there will be no exercise effect; if the time is too long, it will cause extreme fatigue of the body and even affect the work and study of the next day.