'The best time to train' is a myth — there's no single right hour

Morning isn't automatically better than evening — your own rhythm matters more

Debates over training in the morning versus the evening usually make a case for both: morning workouts supposedly kickstart your metabolism for the whole day, while evening workouts tap into the peak in strength and body temperature that most people hit in the second half of the day. Studies comparing strength training performance at different times of day do find a small average edge for evening sessions on max-strength measures — body temperature and hormone levels tend to line up a bit more favorably by evening.

But that's a group average, not a universal rule for any one person: people have an individual chronotype — a partly genetically driven tendency toward activity at certain times of day — and genuine 'morning people' can indeed perform best in the morning, despite the group-level trend favoring evenings.

A more important factor than an abstract 'best' time is consistency and fit with your actual life: training at a convenient, regularly repeatable time you can realistically stick to week after week almost always beats a theoretically 'optimal' time that constantly has to be worked around and eventually gets skipped.