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48 Laws of Power

The 48 Laws of Power

I stumbled across a book recently called The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene. It was his first book, and was published in 1998. I was intrigued by the Wikipedia article for the book that said it was popular with both celebrities and prison inmates. Now there’s a combination!

The book outlines 48 straightforward principles for building and maintaining more power in your relationships with others. It’s part Sun Tzu and part Machiavelli in its approach. I’ve collected some of the highlights.

Introduction to the 48 Laws of Power

 

As a young child, entering primary school can be quite a small shock. In the event you considered everything they told you about truthfulness and fairness and were raised by conscientious parents, chances are when lumped in together with your new classmates there was a steep learning curve ahead of you. Suddenly it became clear that fairness is for suckers and wimps!

The truth is, consistently striving to be fair can seriously hamper your success. Of course, if it’s the case that you’re a top level company manager or politician, you already understood that. However there is hope even if you’re not.

Robert Greene was just as you, but determined to look deep into machinations and the history of power to understand all about the best way to get it, use it and defend against mistreatment of it. He created an unbelievable 48 laws of power.

A Few Selected Laws of Power

It’s a little too much to dive into all 48 Laws of Power. If you’re interested in learning more, you should buy the book. But here are some selected laws with a little background.

Don’t acquire you your manager’s favor, but make him glow instead

Have you ever ever attempted to impress your supervisor, and then fall flat on your own face? If you’ve ever failed to impress someone in a place of power, it may truly be the result of outshining them. After all, powerful folks want to function as the center of attention; striving overly difficult to impress them can switch focus away from them and onto you, hurting their pride in the process.

But what worse is acting superior to them, a move that could lead your supervisor to think of you as a threat with their position and, therefore, to enable you to go from the organization.

Take the relationship between King Louis XIV of France and Nicolas Fouquet, the king’s finance minister. Fouquet, a loyal and clever adviser became vital to his ruler, but this didn’t ensure him the place of prime minister when the incumbent minister died. To attain the king’s favor, Fouquet threw a lavish party at his chateau that was extravagantly furnished to reveal the king well-connected and influential he was.

A day later, Fouquet was detained by order of the king, who felt dubiously and overshadowed accused of larceny to amass such opulent wealth, the minister. Poor Fouquet was bound to live out his days in a prison cell.

So, you know how not to impress your manager, but how will you attain her favor? An improved strategy would be to always make the individual in charge look smarter than everyone else.

As an example, the astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei desperately needed funds because of his research, and discovered an ingenious way to get it. When he found the four moons of Jupiter in 1610, he made sure to link his discovery.

How?

In an act of cunning, Galileo said that the four moons symbolized Cosimo II and his three brothers, while Jupiter itself was comparable to Cosimo I, the four brothers’ papa. Thanks to playing to his ruler’s ego, Galileo was named the official philosopher and mathematician of Cosimo II.

Take credit for other folks’s work and protect your own

It sounds mean, but most of the time, taking credit for other people’s efforts is the key to success. Pretty ruthless, but if you’re after power, you need to use this to your advantage.

Would you ever consider claiming parts of another person’s work as your own by plagiarizing several clever snippets? Did you ever slyly steal responses from a classmate in a mathematics test? The stark reality is that achieving power often means utilizing the work of others to your advantage or maybe you didn’t, although maybe you did.

If somebody else can do them why could you waste your energy doing things? As an example, are you aware that the Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla worked for the famous inventor Thomas Edison? And it was truly Tesla, not Edison, who was key in creating Edison’s dynamo that is recognized by improving what was at the time Edison’s fairly primitive design.

Thomas Edison

To make this discovery, Tesla worked tirelessly for an entire year, often clocking 18-hour days in the laboratory. But now, it’s Edison’s name which is related to the dynamo.

To this day, little has changed since Edison. Only take into consideration the way well-known novelists “ and how few politicians write their own speeches borrow” from other writers.

But reaping the benefits of work isn’t enough – you’ll additionally should take credit for it. For instance, Edison and his business claimed all the credit on the dynamo for Tesla’s work. Edison didn’t so much as share a penny of his profits with Tesla, even though he’d assured him $50,000!

Thus, keeping Tesla’s experience at heart, remember the credit given for creation or an invention of any kind is equally as crucial as the invention itself. If you don’t claim credit, someone else will jump in, steal all of the credit that comes with it and your idea.

Getting power over somebody means getting to know them – and being their buddy is the best way

buddies

Possibly you’ve ran into this issue before: you’re striving to outmaneuver the opposition but can’t quite manage to correctly predict your opponents strategies. How can you get around this?

Well, another trick to getting power will be to gather significant information regarding the folks you would like to control. Also to get something you are required to understand about them. After all, understanding an individual’s plans, desires and weaknesses will help you guide their activities and both win their favor.

Take the art dealer Joseph Duveen, who in 1920 resolved to win over the industrialist Andrew Mellon as a client. So Duveen chose to bribe Mellon’s staff to pass him secret information about their company but Mellon wasn’t easily convinced.

Duveen made sure to follow him when the industrialist traveled to London. The dealer showed up at the same art gallery Mellon was visiting, allegedly by chance, and engaged him in a lively conversation.

Since Duveen understood so much about what Mellon enjoyed, he easily gained his favor by making him consider that they shared common preferences in art. Consequently, the encounter ended on good terms and Mellon shortly became Duveen’s best client.

So just how will you accomplish what Duveen did?

By posing as an individual’s buddy, you’re able to hire informants or, better yet, behave as a spy yourself. This strategy is uncertain, while most people go for hired secret agents like Duveen did. After all, just how can you be sure that your secret agents are being honest along with you?

It’s best to do the spying yourself to be sure your information is accurate. As individuals usually hesitate to talk about private information with strangers, this really is no simple job.

Nevertheless, they’re not as close when in the company of someone they look at a buddy, making posing as a comrade a powerful strategy.

Act unpredictably to confuse the competition

You almost certainly know that many folks don’t enjoy sudden changes, but are you aware that you can use to your competitive advantage? Acting unpredictably can keep your competition off balance, and here’s how:

In scenarios that are competitive, your opponents will likely attempt difficult to figure you out by observation your customs and decision making, plus they won’t hesitate to use these details against you. In this situation, your very best move would be to behave erratically – being unpredictable will protect you from being understood by your opponents, which will intimidate and unnerve them.

Take the famous 1972 chess match between the Russian champion Boris Spassky and also Bobby Fischer. Fischer understood that Spassky’s technique was to target predictability and the routines of his competition, by playing as unpredictably as you possibly can and Fischer used this information to his advantage.

Even in the times leading as much as the match, Fischer made it seem unsure whether or not he would manage to make it to Reykjavik, where the pair was set to play. When he did arrive, it was moments before the match was set to be cancelled due to his lack. After this stunt, Fischer continued to whine about everything from the lighting to the chairs and noise in the room.

When they finally began first match is ’sed by the tournament, Fischer made careless errors before giving up, an odd move since he was known for his persistence. Spassky couldn’t tell if he was actually making errors or perhaps bluffing.

At this time, Fischer had Spassky just where he was desired by him: when your opponent is adequately vexed, you’re in a perfect situation to win.

Why?

Doing things that perplex your competitor will cause him to try to spell out your behaviour and deflect him from the job at hand, providing you the chance to hit.

So, after two games of chess, Fischer began winning game after game with daring moves. When all was said and done, Spassky conceded and Fischer was named world champion.

Game of Thrones

Safety with Torrents

I was traveling abroad a lot this Spring for work and having a tough time keeping up with Game of Thrones. I’m a paying HBO subscriber and even have HBO Go for streaming at home. Unfortunately, HBO Go doesn’t work in a lot of the countries that I travel to.

I tried setting up a VPN service, but just like Netflix, HBO Go seems to block the service from working correctly over a VPN. This was really frustrating, because I wanted to watch Game of Thrones when it came out on Sunday nights…or whatever time of day it was wherever I was traveling.

Don’t tell anyone, but I tried a couple of torrent sites. I’m always a little wary of these places because you never know if your going to get a virus or malware or worse. I read this article about tips for avoiding problems with shady torrent sites on Softonic and downloaded uTorrent, which seems to be the most popular torrent product on the Web.

It took a lot longer than I thought to get my episodes. I had to download the entire file before I could watch any of it. Despite the claims that torrents speed things up by downloading portions of the file from dozens, or even hundreds, of different sources, I found that the whole process was slower than streaming. Of course with streaming you get to start watching right away without waiting for the entire file to download.

I think I’ll stick with streaming or just watching it on TV when I’m home, but when I travel a lot it’s nice to know I can still get my Game of Thrones fix.

Sochi Olympics Flag and Rings

Did they Dope?

Over the past few days there’s been a swirl of reports about allegations that the Russians used doping methods to improve athlete performance at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.

The story was first reported in the New York Times by Rebecca Ruiz and Michael Schwirtz.

The report claims that the program was state-run and that dozens of athletes participated. At least 15 of the participants were medal winners. The report’s source is a former anti-doping official.

Allegedly, the urine sample bottles supplied by the athletes were tampered with and the athletes’ own urine was replaced with clean urine as part of the scheme.

You can read an even longer account in Slate.

 

 

Yoga at the Beach

Some Ways to Use Yoga for Simple Stress Relief

I’ve been writing about yoga a lot because I’ve used it in so many ways: to lose weight, stay in shape, keep flexible, and more. But the best benefit I’ve found is that yoga is a great way to clear my head and flush out all the accumulated stress from the day.

Keeping a yoga practice may be a terrific method stay in shape, to reduce stress and relax the mind. But when it comes to anxiety relief, not all yoga poses are created equal: Some positions are especially powerful for promoting strain relief, relaxation and restfulness.

Seated postures like child’s pose can cause feelings of calm while empowering positions like standing forward bending and eagle pose can relax the mind while energizing the body, and help set your head in a meditative state.

Stress Relief with Yoga

When pressure creeps into your relationship bank account, manager, beloved, or supposed sources of strength, give this soothing workout a try. Surrender to some yoga and serenity is yours–and you can take that straight to the bank.

Use this sequence to relax your nerves after a stressful day.

Studies show that chronic stress increases the chance of growing mental and physical problems, like high blood pressure, ulcers, immune dysfunction, and melancholy and inhibits your ability to fix.

To break the cycle, it helps to train body responses and your thought processes to slow down. Restorative yoga helps repair well-being with gentle positions that relieve the pressure and exhaustion we accumulate during daily life.

This poses, intended to be performed as a sequence, are made to relieve tension that was muscle that was pent up and stimulate the immune and lymphatic systems. Use the poses to build your own practice depending on the time you have available.

Remain in each pose for a couple of minutes while breathing deeply, and always end in Savasana, the classic yogic posture of deep relaxation in which you’re lying down but still awake. (In fact, just this one stance done three times per week may do wonders.) Taking time to experience calm and the remainder that come from restorative yoga’s healing practice will help reduce your stress levels, improving your general health and well-being.

Namaste: Greeting Your Breath

Begin with your feet firmly planted and arms by your sides. As you inhale, cross your arms upwards and out to the sides (palms facing the ceiling) until the palms fulfill overhead (shown left). Exhale with the hands and slide down them before your face, stopping at your heart (shown left, inset). Maintain your attention on your breath.

Half Wall Hang

With your hands shoulder-width apart, put your palms against a wall or door. Begin slide your hands down until your hands and shoulders and to walk your feet from the wall are at about the height. Keeping knees slightly bent, press your hands lightly into the wall and lean your body away from it (shown right) to stretch the muscles that run along the back, where many people often hold pressure.

Allow your head to drop slightly, and take several deep breaths. Focus on relaxing the area around your jaw, as the muscles there are just some of the strongest in your body and tend to clamp down when you’re under pressure, with each exhale. If you are all set to come out of the pose, walk back toward the wall slowly to prevent any light-headedness.

Shoulder Stretch On The Wall

Stand so one side of the body is facing the wall with a space and your body of about three quarters the amount of your arm. Reach the arm closest to the wall and put your palm.

Keeping the hand in position, gradually rotate your system from the wall (shown left), stretching the shoulder area. Breathe fully and intensely for several breaths. Feel this pose releasing tightness around the shoulder, upper back, neck, and upper chest.

Come out of the pose by inhaling and stretching the fingertips to the ceiling, then letting your arm swing front to back at your side. Turn so your body’s other side faces the wall and repeat.

Child’s Pose

Begin with the knees broader than the hips in your hands and knees, and then sit back onto your heels. Extend your arms out in front (shown right) or drape them, palms upwards, back by the sides of your legs toward your feet. You can even rest your upper body and brow on pillows or stacked blankets if lowering to the floor feels uneasy.

Breathe deeply and feel the breath stretch the muscles around the rib cage. Take several deep breaths and after that walk your hands to the other side. If you are ready, walk your hands toward your knees and return to some seated posture.

Beating Yoga Pain

Dealing with Pain using Yoga

Yoga is great for a lot of things, especially relaxation and flexibility. But it can also be wonderful for managing pain. Here’s how yoga can help with both knee pain and lower back pain.

Yoga and Knee Pain

To what extent does its significance stretch? Although all of us know yoga is important. By performing the different yoga poses, physical, religious and mental wellbeing is reaped by a person. Mentally, yoga leads to relaxation, reduced stress levels, encourages self-awareness and re-energizes the mind. Yoga touches the soul of a person results in a peaceful inner feeling. Yoga works to ensure positive and healthy living by having the physical body and mind in the right shape.

Flexibility is one great advantage you will reap the benefits of yoga poses. Anyone who is into yoga will certainly consent to this fact. Yoga will demand your body goes constantly changing manners and extends. Over a brief time frame, hips, your back and hamstrings will develop great numbers of flexibility. Yoga can revitalize and restore flexibility.

Yoga improves body strength. Over time, people will recognized great improvement of muscle tone; muscles that are powerful and lean will be the merchandise. Also, equilibrium will accompany these advantages.

This really is their crucial part in body freedom and due to the big numbers of weight they support. Exceptionally mobile folks like riders and sportsmen have reached higher risk of knee injury. Research recently revealed that yoga exercises are an improved means of relieving pain’s knee. Below are a few of the most effective yoga poses for knee pain.

The supported warrior pose. It is suggested for instances of degenerative bone illness or knee inflammation. Here is how to do it. After standing in front of a wall, have your hands stretched forwards at the shoulder level in order to touch the wall. Next, move your left foot until you’ve got the toes partly touching the wall. Have your right arm stretched along the right limb, the left arm should be stretched along the lower left limb. From your right foot, take two steps back and have left knee flexed. As of this position, hold your breath for not less than 15 seconds. Stretch the left limb thus as the exercise is redone now on the right lower limb.

Warrior Pose on the Beach

Makrasana. On a mat that is clean, have your body. While keeping this posture, stretch backwards so as your body lies on the ground until the head touches the floor. Stay in this location for some seconds before sitting in the first pose.

Tadasana is another great yoga pose for knee pain. It focuses the essential processes. While standing, let your feet be business on the earth. Discipline yourself to keep slow and steady respiration where you inhale expel the air through the mouth. Remember to keep the back muscles direct in the entire procedure.

Yoga is a gentle and less impact process to keep the body fit. It truly is mild to old bones, it is among the perfect exercises for a successful aging process. Begin yoga today and reap the gains.

Yoga and Lower Back Pain

All over the world, lower back pain is one of most common grievances. The Mayo Clinic states that most people will experience low back pain at some time in their lives. Lower back pain is experienced by sedentary people in addition to highly-trained sportsmen. It is not difficult to see lower back pain is an issue, if you examine an average weekday of an average American who works a nine-to-five job.

Upon awakening one may sit before sitting to drive to work to have coffee or breakfast. The corporate worker will frequently sit at a desk or in meetings until lunch when arriving at work. Lunch includes more sitting, before sitting at the desk to complete the workday. Then obviously there’s another sit-down meal and the commute home. Exhausted from a long day of sitting at the office one may choose to sit on the sofa to watch television. If we look at it from an anatomical perspective we recognize the hamstring muscles and the illiopsoas muscles are shortened in the many hours of sitting and this causes strain on the lower back.

Athletes on the other hand aren’t sedentary, so why the lower back pain? Any weight-bearing sport or exercise that involves rapid dynamic motions, or running, jumping produces tension on the lower back. Overuse injuries may occur when these actions are duplicated over time without releasing and properly extending these muscles that are tight.

For the sedentary nine to five worker exercise is crucial for reducing the threat of diabetes and heart disease in addition to alleviating lower back pain. Nevertheless, I’m assuming you are not in that group. In the event you are, then then add cardiovascular exercises in addition to the stretches proposed below. If you have a slipped disc in sciatica or the lower back, please prevent all deep forward bends can make your condition worse.

When you are coping with low back pain, you actually get a sense of how much you use those muscles through the day, don’t you? From sitting at your computer to doing laundry in the garden, your back takes lots of abuse. A number of us spend sitting in front of a computer screen, and it’s not smooth .

Related Reading: A COLLECTION Exercises for Better Bearing AND STRENGTH

Obviously, if your back pain is severe, it’s wise to speak with your doctor first. Low back pain may be an indicator of serious problems and you’ll desire to seek medical help if that is the case,. Based on what’s going on, your doctor may suggest anything to surgery, and it’s better to get his back exercises that are low that are OK to the mix.

If your back pain is from poor posture, days spent sitting at the desk, or even menstrual cramps, these poses can go a ways in giving you some relief! One chose some beginner poses, in order that no matter what your fitness level you are able to add in these low back stretching and strengthening exercises.

 

Supine Hamstring Stretch

Back pain, low back pain, yoga for back pain, back pain relief, yoga for backLying on your back, bend your right knee into your chest and place a strap or rolled-up towel around the ball. Straighten your leg toward the ceiling. If the lower back feels strained, bend the left knee and place the foot on the earth.

Two-Knee Pull

Low back pain, yoga for back pain, yoga for back pain relief, backLying on your back, bend your knees into your chest and bring your arms out at a T. As you exhale lower your knees to earth on the right. Keep both shoulders pressing down securely. If the left shoulder face lifts, lower your knees farther from the arm that is right. Hold for 1-2 minutes each side

Sphinx

Align your elbows directly under your shoulders. Press hard through the tops of your feet and your palms. Press your pubic bone forward. You may feel your lower back for senses, but breathe through it. You’re enabling blood flow into the lower back.

Sphinx Pose

Pigeon

Back pain, low back pain, yoga for back pain, back pain relief, yoga for backFrom all-fours, bring your right knee behind your right wrist with your lower leg at a diagonal toward your left hip. Square your hips off toward the earth. Bend forward. Widen the elbows and place one hand in addition to the other as a pillow for the forehead. Hold 2-3 minutes and after that change to the left side for 2-3 minutes.

Thread the Needle

Back pain, low back pain, yoga for back pain, back pain relief, yoga for backLying on your back, bend both knees flat on the earth. Flex the right knee with the outer left ankle, like a figure four. Lift the left foot into the air, bringing the left calf parallel to the ground. String your right hand between the legs’ opening and interlace your hands. Hold 2-3 minutes and after that repeat on the opposite side.

Back pain, low back pain, yoga for back pain, back pain relief, yoga for backScoot your buttocks all the way and swing your feet up the wall. This pose is excellent for relaxing the muscles of the lower back and drains stagnant fluid from ankles and the feet. Do this pose after traveling by airplane and consistently after a challenging workout. Hold for 5-10 minutes.

Cat/Cow Poses

Cat/Cow is really a pair of yoga poses, but they go so nicely together, let us simply lump them into one! By cycling between the two positions, you warm up and stretch your back muscles, including the lower back.

To practice these postures, you’ll need to get on your hands and knees with your hands lined up beneath your shoulders and your knees in line with your hips. Take a deep breath in, so when you inhale you want to bend your backbone, so you are pulling on your belly toward the floor, your head leans back, and your bottom lifts toward the sky.

In your exhale, scoop the belly curling your chin toward your chest arching the back up, and tucking your tailbone under under. Repeat these two poses, gently curling in on the and extending through to the inhale exhale, as many times as you like.

Downward Facing Dog

Downward facing dog is very good for improving position, which helps support all of your back muscles and strengthening the lower back.

Start out once again on knees and hands, but walk your hands outside so they are just before your shoulders. Curl your toes under, and push up, straightening your legs and lifting your bottom toward the sky. You want to employ your abs, so your back is straight, and focus on pulling on your shoulderblades. Let your head employ your thigh muscles to further support your back, and hang neutrally.

I’d recommend staying in for at least 10 deep breaths, although you are able to hold this pose for as long as is comfortable.

Chair Pose

Chair pose is amazing for strengthening the lower back muscles. This pose can be a bit strenuous if you are new to it, so listen to your body and take it slowly.

Come to a standing posture with your feet side by side and touching each other and your arms. Inhale, and as you exhale like you are going to sit back into a chair, bend your knees. Now, raise your arms straight out in front of you until your arms are parallel to the floor.

Yoga for Flexibility

 

Taking a Beginner’s Yoga Class

I feel like the absolute last person in the world that has embraced yoga. It’s not that I don’t believe in it–I just haven’t had the time or the desire to commit to a class. But my friend convinced me to attend a few beginner classes last week and I really enjoyed it. I had enough of a good time to think about regularly dropping in on a Wednesday morning class.

This is not me. I wish it was. I don't have that kind of balance. Or that hair.

This is not me. I wish it was. I don’t have that kind of balance. Or that hair.

In the meantime, I’ve been practicing at home with these beginner poses for yoga. They include:

Mountain Pose (super easy)

Tree Pose (a little more challenging)

Downward Facing Dog (sounds weird, but easy to do)

Warrior (sounds tough!)

Cobra (dangerous!)

and my favorite so far…

Corpse Pose (perfect when I’m dead tired at the end of the class).

World Cup 2014 and Security

This looks ominous. There’s only seven weeks to go before the World Cup begins in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro will be the center of it all, but local police and the army are dealing with a grim-looking security situation. Late last night, violence erupted and a young male dancer was shot dead by police. Brazil has been cracking down on the slums of Rio and setting up permanent police posts for the last several years.

Some friends of mine are going to see some matches at this year’s World Cup. I had to pass because it’s just too expensive to go and I’m trying to save money. But I’ll be watching in earnest on TV. I’m rooting for USA, but expect Brazil to be a formidable competitor, as they always are. With the World Cup taking place on their home turf, they’ll be tough to beat.

Figure Skating 2014 Has Finished! Right time to watch Frozen the Movie again!

The Winter Olympics 2014 started on February 6 and ended yesterday, February 22 2014 hosted in Sochi Russia.

Medal Standing

1. Russia with total 5 medals

2. United States with 2 medals

3. Japan with 1 medal

You can get the full result here: http://www.sochi2014.com/en/figure-skating-schedule-and-results

Congratulations to all participants you are all winners.

My favorite is the Figure Skating.

Here’s one of the winners from USA that took the gold medal in Ice Dance.

This was my favorite.

Although it would be nice if the song was “Let It go” from the Frozen the Movie of Disney.
What do you think?

So that inspire me to watch one more time! Frozen.

Ooooh I really love this animated story.

It’s a story of two princess (there’s lot of pricess in Disney) and these two are new comers.

Anna and Elsa used to be close to each other but because of an accident, Elsa had to distance herself to Anna to avoid getting her hurt again and so the palace was closed.

Until the coronation day of Elsa to be the Queen, they open the gates and Anna had the chance to sing the song “For the First Time in Forever”.

Met his prince Hans and wanted to get married! Already!

Which Queen Elsa didn’t allowed, so they fought and Elsa released her power unintentionally.

Because of that she had to run from her kingdom and sing the song “Let it go”.

And when I finished this song, I would want to do a figure state..

Too bad no snow here! YET!

Running Practice Time – Morning or Evening?

It’s always crazy day here in the city, really need to find time to run, walk or go to the gym if you don’t want to gain so much weight!

But when is the best time to run?

Well, I run every morning between 4am to 5am, one to two rounds in the park is just right for me to start my day right and full of energy.

Even if I got late on the evening before, I wanted to run on the morning.

I feel so down and slow when I missed a run.

They say that morning exercise leads to better sleep quality.

So that’s typical in my lifestyle. But now that I want to join in the 21k marathon run.

I am more inspired to prepare my self to it.

I don’t just want run on morning but also run after work.

Sometimes I couldn’t do it, because of the loads of work in the office and my teammates are not runners.

So I got an idea!

I invited all my teammates to join me in getting to healthy life style! I also invited other people in the other department.

Well, most of them are interested to join. I hope it will stay that way…

Hey, Everyone!!! If you’re reading my post now, make sure we finish work early tomorrow ok?

I won’t be waiting for you guys! 😛

I also had a research if it’s ok to run on the afternoon, well I just found out that the optimal time to exercise is when your body is on its highest temperature, which, for most people is the late afternoon, between 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Other studies do confirm that exercisers perform better on physical performance tests, including aerobic capacity, endurance, reaction time, and strength between 4 and 7 p.m.

Cool right???!!!