Intense morning workouts spike cortisol and blood sugar on top of your body's natural morning surge, potentially causing insulin resistance and disrupting your circadian rhythm. A brisk walk or gentle yoga that lets you talk is better than heavy kettlebell training right after waking.
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One of the things that wakes you up is cortisol surges before you wake up and it squeezes your liver and feeds you breakfast, basically. And so you wake up with blood sugar and cortisol having surged. They're pretty high. So if you hit the gym super hard and kettlebells or iron, you know, you're gonna jack up blood sugar and cortisol even higher. And receptors have been pretty fit, uh, fed with those things recently. So you can create insulin resistance and blood sugar resistance and cortisol resistance. By working out too aggressively first thing in the morning, it doesn't probably cause a huge issue like depression, like you get from cortisol resistance, but it probably weakens circadian entrainment. It's confusing to the brain. So in order— don't eat before bed, get up early and go for a walk or do 5 sun salutations or something that's exertive enough to break a sweat, but not that you couldn't talk over if you had to. Basically, that's the level.