 Next question is from James Horton 83. What are the benefits of training first thing in the morning compared to afternoon and evening? All right. So we can talk about the physiological benefits, but really the big difference between these times. Consistency. It's psychological, which consistency falls right under. So I'll tell you what, generally speaking, okay? And again, this is talking to the average person or to most people. In the morning, here's what you'll notice if you work out in the morning. Your workout performance will be not as good. That's the fact. I'm not going to be a strong. I'm not going to perform as well. If I work out at 7am versus if I work out, you know, in the afternoon, bottom line. However, if I work out in the morning, people who do this are less likely to miss workouts. Why? Because it's the first thing in my day. So there's less opportunities for shit to get in the way of me doing my workout. So I'm way more consistent. This is the primary reason why I work out first thing in the morning. I have kids. We have a business. I got all kinds of stuff going on. And I know if I do it in the afternoon, there's a lot of opportunities for things to get in the way for me to miss my workout. But if I do it first thing in the morning, far less opportunities for me to miss it. So that's the main reason. And here's the second one. This is a great psychological benefit to working out in the morning. When I work out in the morning, man, I am ready for my day. I come in here, I podcast better. I'm sharper. I feel energized. So the rest of my day tends to benefit. Now later in the day workouts, better performance. I mean, no doubt about it. I'm way stronger. I'm 10% at least stronger working out in the afternoon. I get better pumps in the afternoon. It just, it feels better. Does that translate to more muscle less body fat? I think because of the consistency of the morning workouts in comparison to the effectiveness of the afternoon workouts, it's a wash, to be quite honest, because I miss no workouts when I work out first thing in the morning. So that's about it. Now, if you're somebody, if I'm training you, and now here's where we get some, like where it starts to become more, more, you know, more variance. If I'm working with you and you're my client and sleep is an issue for you, I'm not going to have you work out first thing in the morning, because I don't think it's smart to trade sleep for exercise. If you have hormone issues, I'm not going to have you work out in the morning. So if you're a woman and you're going to hire me and your, your HPA axis dysfunction, I'm not going to have you work out in the morning. I'm going to have you have a nice relaxing morning and I might have you work out in the afternoon. So those are just some examples, but I think the big difference really is about the psychological aspect. Yeah, I would, the biggest physical detriment I would say to working on the morning is simply that is interrupting your sleep, right? If you are, you find that that's the best time for you to work out because you have the most time available then, but that also cuts into your eight hours of sleep and now you're getting six or five or whatever, and you're exhausted and you just push through it, right? Because you can push through it and then feel good afterwards. And don't mistake that by the way of feeling good because that's just your body trying to respond to what you just put it through. So that's the mistake I think some people get is like, Whoa, when I get done, I feel really good. I mean, I feel horrible getting there and this and that, that I do it. And then I feel amazing. Stress hormone high. Exactly. I mean, that's just your cortisol shooting through the roof and you feel, if you feel amazing and don't, don't mistake that for your body is, is loving that or liking that. So I think that, you know, that's the biggest thing you got to look at, look at if you're going to be training in the morning time. But yeah. And I know we keep hammering the consistent consistency thing down, but you have to understand that how much that plays a factor in your success. It's the number one factor of all things, diet and training program and all these things that we want to talk about exercise selection, routine, blah, blah, blah, blah, nothing trumps consistency. You consistently doing something is far better than nothing at all. So whatever one of these things it were morning or afternoon, you can be the most consistent is that's the answer. However you find that in your schedule where you can just map that out knowing specifically, I'm going to do this at this specific time. A lot of people do find it's the first thing in the morning because it is that very first objective that you're, you know, placing yourself in. This is what I, my intention of the day starts here. And you know, that does have a lot of benefit to it because now the rest of my day, like I do get a quite a bit of a mood, elevating effect from that to like working out in the morning, which I like, but I don't like that I can't train at the intensity I can in the middle of the day, which is really where I do feel a lot more of a performance boost. So I kind of weave back and forth with the two options based on if my consistency has fell, I'll go back to mornings and try and go, you know, first thing. But then if I have an opportunity in the day, I'm going to take it because I want to see what my body has been able to do. Now, as far as the performance is concerned, yes, it's true studies will show you'll perform not as great early in the morning as you will, maybe later in the afternoon. However, body will death. Yeah, you do, you do, you do get better at it. So I will say I still perform better in the afternoon, but I don't perform as badly in the morning as I did as I used to when I first started doing it. Now my performance in the morning is not too bad. What would you say it takes, I know it's very individual, but what would you say it takes the average person to kind of acclimate to that? Oh, months, months, months. Four, five, six months. Oh, wow, that long. It takes a while, dude. Bro, waking up in the morning, first off, you have to wake up earlier than you used to, and then being physical and pushing yourself to somebody who's never done that before. It takes, it takes a little while. Yeah, I think the key, I mean, and you're the more consistent one with this, correct me if I'm wrong, is that when you transition and it's tough and it's going to be probably tough and tired, is disciplining yourself to go to bed earlier? Because I would see that would be probably the biggest challenge for people. For me, that would be the biggest challenge. I've allowed myself to stay up to 11 or midnight almost every single night, but if you're getting up at five o'clock in the morning, going to bed at midnight is a terrible habit to have. Yeah, you're 100% right. You have to prioritize that evening as well. But look, I noticed this as a young gym manager before I had kids, before I had all the responsibility I have, when I was literally living and working in the gym all day, so I could literally work out kind of whenever I wanted, and so I did. I'd work out at like one or two PM. That's what I did for years, by the way. One or two PM was my workout time. It was a slow time in the gym. It also worked out great because, like I said, it's early afternoon. But here's what I noticed. When I would manage gyms, if I came in the morning at six AM, which I routinely would do, I would routinely get in there early so I could get there before my staff set up or whatever. It was always the same people in the gym. The most consistent members that you'll see in a gym are the morning crowd, always the same exact crowd. They're in there, the hardcore, they know each other. They all work out very consistently. The evening crowd, boy, does that fluctuate like crazy. But it was that, I swear to God, I would come in at six AM and I knew I was going to see the same 30 to 50 people working out in my gym. And that's when I really picked up on it. Like, oh, the mornings are great for consistency.