What is the right time to Jog: Morning or Evening?

I jog in the morning. But when I'm free & sometimes go for evening walk, I see people jogging. That leaves a question in my mind:

• What is the best time to jog?
• What are the benefits of morning jog & that of evening jog?

I prefer morning jog, so lets start with it's benefits:

1. Regularity: With evening time there is always a chance of some appointment to come up which will interrupt the jogging routine. But with the morning jog, it happens at start of the day. So it's bit easy to maintain a regular jogging routine.
2. Cool weather / Fresh Air: Morning atmosphere is cool & air contains high percentage oxygen compared to other times of the day. Isn't it good when the body gets good amount of oxygen?
3. Less Traffic: If you like to jog on  roads, doing a morning jog naturally implies lesser traffic which also means less pollution in the morning.
4. Early Rising: When we rise early we feel few extra hours has been added to our day when we continue with the day's work. If we can get into the habit of morning jog, early rising will become natural for us.
5. Total blood usage in running: As we know food digestion requires blood; also during jogging  our legs & heart use most blood. If we do jogging after 2-3 hours of eating, sufficient blood won't be available for jogging & neither for digestion.
6. Good Fat Loss: When we do morning jog, the gap between meal & jog is 10 hours. We get energy from 2 sources in our body: Carbohydrates (gives instant energy) & Fat (gives stored energy). Due to 10 hours interval our carbohydrates are mostly used up. So, while jogging body uses FAT as the primary source of energy. Fat loss  =  Weight loss  :)
7. Sweating cleanses skin: Sweating due to jogging will clean the skin & skin feels charming for the whole day. A good tip for women.
8. Marathon Practicing: Many of us want to take part in marathons or some kind of races. Marathons take place in the morning. If we already do morning jog, our body is already suited & prepared for this morning activity.

Few years back, I used to do exercises during evening & we've seen a lot of people doing evening jog. Let's see what are the advantages of evening jog:

1. No Excuse of I can't wake up: No problem of waking up early to go for a jog. It becomes like a every other task we do in our waking hours.
2. Scientific reasons:

• Our body warmest between 4 PM - 7 PM. Warm body supports physical activities.
• Testosterone hormone at it's peak during evening. It's primary hormone responsible for muscle building. Along with jogging benefits if you'd also like to build some muscle strength then evening jog can be done.

3.   Jogging with Partners: Jogging with partners can give extra motivation. At evening it's more likely to find a jogging partner. Jogging with a partner will add a little more fun.

So what should you do? Morning jog or Evening Jog?
If you're looking for regularity in your jogging & want a general fitness level, morning jog will be a good choice. With this, you can easily schedule your strength exercises in the evening. If you're looking for an extra spice, want to do sprinting, improve your jogging times then evening jog will be the best choice. Also if you're doing one type of jogging & want to shift to other, it can be done. Our body is good at adapting to any change.

Regards,
Ricky