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The Power of Early Morning Exercise: A Personal Journey to Energy and Focus 🏃‍♀️

How Morning Workouts Can Boost Your Health and Happiness

Kristie Leong M.D.
6 min readJan 9, 2025
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As someone who spent years balancing a career, fitness goals, and a passion for staying healthy, I’ve discovered my secret weapon for getting it all done — working, eating healthy, and sweating.

The secret? Morning workouts. Once I embraced the benefits of morning movement, it transformed my fitness, but also my entire day!

The Struggle to Exercise in the Morning 🏋️‍♂️

It hasn’t always been this way. Years ago, I was a staunch night owl. I was convinced that squeezing in a quick workout after work was my only option.

And how did that work out? Not well! (to say the least) I was usually drained by the time I picked up dumbbells to do biceps curls or a barbell to eke out a set of squats. I was too tired by the end of the day to give a workout the proper attention to get real results.

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Worse, my workouts started to feel like a chore. One particularly hectic week, I missed three sessions in a…

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Kristie Leong M.D.
Kristie Leong M.D.

Written by Kristie Leong M.D.

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