How do you get yourself to wake up early?

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  • Spaghetti_Bender
    Spaghetti_Bender Posts: 509 Member
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    I get up at 4am on the days i exercise, and have been doing that for about 7 years. It's not a chore for me to get up.
  • cicisiam
    cicisiam Posts: 491 Member
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    I realize the more I delay the harder it will be to pick it up again. Consistency makes the Shred not as hard and I feel successful afterward. I remind myself also, 30 minutes a day of exercise..if I at least get the Shred in everyday I do not feel so bad about missing other exercise till I can fit it in. Just the way it works for me..everyone has different motivations to get going..you just need to find yours :smile:
  • cicisiam
    cicisiam Posts: 491 Member
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    SHAPE Magazine
    Up and at 'em! Why you should workout this morning (and every other morning!). http://shpe.co/1di8EPS
  • amberflo143
    amberflo143 Posts: 94 Member
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    set your workout clothes the night before so you are ready to go!

    Yes, I set my workout clothes out, untie my shoes and have my head phones untangled ready to go. I make it as easy as possible. I really love to work out in the morning as the energy it provides thoughout the day is great!
  • Juslane
    Juslane Posts: 8 Member
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    I work long hrs also with 2 hrs commute so my day=12 hrs. I am not a morning person either. I picked up a few habits to make it easier for me. I wear work out clothes to sleep. When alarm goes off at 5:30, all I have to do is brush hair in ponytail, wash face and brush teeth. I am out the door by 5:45 and back home by 6:45 to get ready for work.

    Also, I get at least 7 hrs of sleep everyday. Good luck! :-)

    Took me 2 weeks to adapt.
  • debrag12
    debrag12 Posts: 1,071 Member
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    If I had my alarm on the other side of the room, I'd just turn it off and go back to bed. Thankfully I don't exercise on a work day (running around a ward is enough) so don't need to get up too early.
  • ThriceBlessed
    ThriceBlessed Posts: 499 Member
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    Coffee... lots of coffee....
  • ThriceBlessed
    ThriceBlessed Posts: 499 Member
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    I need this.... but for me it would start at 5:00 and say, "Go workout".
  • edwardrz
    edwardrz Posts: 7
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    Try an alarm clock that uses light to wake you up. Search "light alarm clock" on Amazon.
  • janicebinva
    janicebinva Posts: 99 Member
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    Ditto on the alarm on the other side of the room. Maybe have your exercise clothes laid out right next to the alarm, to make it more natural to go over there, turn off the alarm, and put on your workout clothes.

    Also there was a suggestion for going to a gym close to work. If you normally commute during rush hour, that might make your drive home better too, since you'd be doing it later.

    Or find a buddy who also gets up early. They don't have to live with you or work out with you. You just have to call each other to make sure they're up. My ex and I used to wake up early to work out together. That was the only time I was ever consistent about exercising before work. Other than that time period, it's been after work or on the weekends.
  • cursiny
    cursiny Posts: 907 Member
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  • Humbugsftw
    Humbugsftw Posts: 202 Member
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    Go to bed early, set an alarm for the time you want to wake up at (for me, 6am). I tell myself I have no reason to need any more sleep and progress won't be made if I'm not in the gym! It's become a habit for me though now.
  • Jerrypeoples
    Jerrypeoples Posts: 1,541 Member
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    first find out what your ideal sleep time is. if i get more than 6 hours im very lethargic throughout the day. I had a home gym and found myself waking up in the morning determined to work out which would then turn into another 45 minutes of sleep vowing to workout when i got home.

    get home and one thing leads to another and its time for bed. the cycle just repeated itself. got rid of the home gym and signed up at the local one. while $43 isnt that much its enough to prod me to go to the gym instead of just wasting the money.

    also i make it a point to only sit on my bed while i change into my gym clothes (or i leave my car running) otherwise the sleep gas my bed emits will overcome me and i will take a hour or two nap and i cant have that.
  • Bama56
    Bama56 Posts: 101 Member
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    my favorite meal of the day gets me out of bed fairly well.
  • kborton1122
    kborton1122 Posts: 914 Member
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    Go to bed earlier. When that alarm clock goes off in the morning, you have to think about how bad you want to drop the pounds. Tell yourself you will feel better if you just get up and get it done.

    For me, I get up at 4:30 every other day and go the gym before I go to work. My motivator is my boyfriend. This is the time that he gets up to go to work, so he holds me accountable.
  • lydiaannepage
    lydiaannepage Posts: 172 Member
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    Yeah soooo if you aren't a morning person first off you just need to accept that it's going to suck. I wake up at 04:00 every morning now so that I can do my 30 min workout before my commute because I know I just won't have the energy by the time I get home.

    I put my workout gear in the bathroom, leave my shoes, full water bottle, hand weights and yoga matt out in front of the TV the night before and make myself get up on the first alarm, as soon as I get up - the clothes are waiting, so I get dressed, and then it is too late - it's not like I'm going to get undressed and go back to bed 'cuz that is just suuuper lazy. I've done 5 weeks now of a 10 week program and haven't missed a morning workout yet (it is a 5 day per week program).

    Good luck! YOU CAN DO IT!!!! :bigsmile:
  • lydiaannepage
    lydiaannepage Posts: 172 Member
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    P.S. If my fat *kitten* can do it - you should be able to do it with no problems!!! LOL
  • scottyg70
    scottyg70 Posts: 388 Member
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    I think it's been mentioned more than once, but go to bed earlier AND at the same time. Get your body in a rhythm. I have never been a morning person but I get up at 4:30 three times a week to run now. One thing that helps me, is as soon as I get up, I drink a bottle of water. That seems to knock the cobwebs out of my head and perk me up. The bottom line is: you just have to do it! After two or three times it becomes routine.
  • cookiealbright
    cookiealbright Posts: 605 Member
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    I sleep in my workout clothes too, if I'm going to work out in the morning. Normally I go to the gym after work though. Good luck to ya!
  • powerman617
    powerman617 Posts: 13
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    hahaha!!! There is a lot of funny, cool, and great ideas here. Of course I didn't read them all, I just skipped to the end to put in my two cents worth. Getting up early is a habit, like a lot of things if you do it for a week or so you will find that your eyes open automatically at whatever time it is you get up. I get up every day a 4:15 AM. If it's my day off I try to go back to sleep and sometimes I do for another hour. Now I'm an old guy so I've been doing this for nearly 40 years, but I got in habit at a young age. Like I tell everyone that asks me about my weight loss... the first thing is you have to really want to do it and no excuses will stop you. I don't have the same busy schedule as you, but by the time I get home it is 6:00 and I used to just flop into the recliner and watch TV, eat, and go to bed. It took a couple of weeks to get into the routine, but I now go to a fitness club at least 3 times a week and I find that has become a habit now and I really miss it if I don't go. The other great thing is I am now physically in shape also.
    Commit to a schedule that works for you and stick with it until it becomes your new habit. :bigsmile:
    I use a fitbit flex fitness tracking wrist band that I set to 4:15 AM and it vibrates and flashes at that time to wake me up if I'm still sleeping.

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