The best times to have sex, exercise and drink according to your body clock

Alice Sholl
·Contributor
Keep an eye on that watch [Photo: Pexels]
Keep an eye on that watch [Photo: Pexels]

You may have heard that the healthiest time of day to do a number two is in the morning.

And don’t even think about hitting snooze on your alarm clock for the sake of your health.

But it’s not just our bowels and beauty sleep that benefit from us getting our timing just right, as a recent study has revealed that certain times are better than others to do everything from have sex to drink alcohol.

Rise and shine [Photo: Pexels]
Rise and shine [Photo: Pexels]

According to a survey of 1,000 people by Forza Supplements, the best time to have sex is actually at 7:30 or around 45 minutes after you wake up.

And the best time to go for a run is – sorry again, snoozers – 7am, as experts say that doing cardio before breakfast will increase the amount of fat you burn by a little.

Thanks to insulin, blood sugar and glycogen levels being lower than normal after fasting overnight, according to MailOnline.

It’s time for an early-morning run [Photo: Pexels]
It’s time for an early-morning run [Photo: Pexels]

And if it takes a while to get those cogs working in the mornings, you’re not alone – apparently our concentration levels reach their peak about three hours after we wake. So if you’ve got to prep for a big meeting tomorrow, perhaps wait until 9:45am.

But get it done before 10:45am, when our stress levels (and to-do lists) reach capacity and it’s much better to relax.

To get this information, the supplements company asked participants who it considered healthy and active to report back on what times their bodies found best to engage in particular activities.

You can probably have sex at other times too – we won’t tell [Photo: Pexels]
You can probably have sex at other times too – we won’t tell [Photo: Pexels]

Thankfully the optimum time to get boozing is straight after work at 6:10pm and four hours before bedtime in order give our livers some recovery time.

While bedtime itself is at 10:10pm, leaving you plenty of time for drifting off and a bit of non-REM sleep.

And if you’re prone to snacking (guilty), keep an eye on your cravings at 3:30pm when we’re all beginning to flag at work and after a sugar fix.

Or at 8:15pm, when we’re presumably cracking open some sweet and salty popcorn in front of a box set.

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