What time of the day to train What?

[Chirath]

I like having an intense karate lesson at night time. So you can lay down exhausted and get some real good sleep. It's also cool and peaceful at night. You also get to check out your moves if someone tries it on you

[kotegashiNeo]

Sounds like you want a copy of the bubishi in it are very broad guidlines for this sort of thing. To get more specific you might want to include some advice from an internal stylist.

[ryanryu]

I’ve unearthed this one from the vault because I’ve been training at all sorts of times lately. How has this changed for you all over the years?

Right now I train from 8-9pm, which is a sweet spot for me in terms of being late but not too late. I also insert a midday session when I can – pre-lunch is my best training, but more often I train a few hours after lunch, in the midafternoon lull when my energy is lowest. The workout will pep me up, but I’ve never felt that to be high quality training.

Finally, I usually do a brief stretch and warm-up session in the morning, but I have never expanded this into a serious training session in the morning. I don’t know how well this would work for me, given my commute and work schedule.

I know one thing that did not work was a previous dojo I trained at that held class from 830-10pm. I could never calm down enough after class to fall asleep before midnight and would always end up being a zombie the next day.

The old chain has some interesting comments about what to train at which times… I’ve come across these ideas before and I’ll see if I can dig up the book I had on it. I don’t put much weight into the idea that certain kata are better trained in the morning or evening, mainly because most of us don’t get to choose our training times that freely.

[KarateKen]

By far the biggest gap between posts I have ever seen in a thread in my life anywhere.  

[Nidan Melbourne]

16 hours ago, KarateKen said:

By far the biggest gap between posts I have ever seen in a thread in my life anywhere.  

I'm surprised too that someone brought back a post after 21 years. But it is a good discussion that has changed over the years, and I don't think any of the people that posted on it originally are active anymore. But I they were, it would have been good to get their perspective on how their training has changed since then. 

Now the classes I attend when I can; typically are between a 7 and 8 pm start with a finish usually being just after 9 pm. 

Everyone is different when it comes to ideal times to train anything; from studying to physical exercise. But @ryanryu has a point though; that for some like him if it is too late in the day, then they feel like a zombie the following day. 

So when I was working my warehouse job; it was hard to justify a late session, when it would be usually a 30 min - 1 hour drive home from the dojo that i'd be at. So 9 pm finish, get home at around 9:45-10 (+/-), shower, eat something small then go to bed at 11. Then having to be up at 5:45 am for a 6 am departure the following morning. It was just not safe, as I went from an early riser (regardless of how late I went to bed) and being effective throughout the day to being evening person with an earlier bed time. 

In other words, my physical activity that were planned were often best done on weekends or between 6-8:30 pm. Which allowed me to have time to do what I needed afterwards, and still talk to people at home.