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Listening to Your Body Clock Can Help Improve Performance

Five takeaways:

1. We all know people who perform better at different times of the day. Research shows that there are also early risers and night owls when it comes to physical performance and athletics.
2. A British study of an “athletic body clock” revealed three stark categories: Early, Intermediate, and Late.
3. Research reveals that the physical performance of the “Early” category peaked at noon. Meanwhile, “Intermediate” peaked at 4pm, and “Late” were at their best at 8pm.
4. When people are forced to perform outside of their body clock’s comfort zone, their prefrontal cortex, which controls sophisticated thought and logic, “remains in a disabled or ‘offline’ state” and takes a long time before it warms up to operating temperature.
5. It is possible for athletes to retrain their body clocks to perform best at a specific time.

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