The desire to exercise decreases the later you go to bed, found the research
Night owls who prefer to stay up late and sleep in are less likely to exercise, found new research.
The report indicated that night owls are more sedentary and feel that they have a harder time maintaining an exercise schedule.
The research found that people who charactised themselves as night owls reported more sitting time and came up with more reasons not to exercise, including not having enough time and being unable to stick to a schedule regardless of their sleeping times.
'We found that even among healthy, active individuals, sleep timing and circadian preference are related to activity patterns and attitudes toward physical activity,' told principal investigator Kelly Glazer Baron, associate professor of neurology and director of the Behavioral sleep Medicine Program at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois to the Mail Online.
'Waking up late and being an evening person were related to more time spent sitting, particularly on weekends and with difficulty making time to exercise.’
The research found that even among those who were able to exercise, waking up late and being an evening person perceived it to be more difficult.
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