Would You be Willing to Wake Up This Early?

Absolutely, depending on my work schedule I have to get in early. Your body will adjust once you start....Seems like I burn more when I workout in the mornings.

I started Insanity last week. I normally work a day shift, but for the last couple of weeks, I switched to evening shift (5 pm to 4 am) to help out due to staffing issues. Therefore, I've had a little alone time when I wake up because the kids and SO are off to work/school/daycare.

I normally get up at 4 am . . . just to get ready for work!! I am actually considering getting up at 3 am to do Insanity before work. There is no way to get it in after work, and I really want to continue the program. I usually don't get home until 5:30 or 6 and then have to start dinner for 4 kids and SO. By the time we eat dinner, clear the table, load the dishwasher and get the youngest kids to bed, it's 8pm. That is what time I probably will need to get in bed in order to get enough rest to get up at 3 am.

So, yeah, suck it up. It's not that early.

I get up at 4:40 5 days per week and only need an alarm maybe once a week. I do not go to bed earlier than before I started my morning workouts. My body is used to it and I actually feel more engerized for the day than when I was sleeping later and not working out.

I'm up at 4am and stretch for half an hour then go right into my exercise...

I would have to get up at 4:45 as well to get a 30 minute run in before I have to shower and leave to drop my son off at daycare and go to work!
I have been thinking a lot about just getting up and doing it but I haven't been able to just yet!

I wake up at 4:10 a.m five mornings a week to get to the gym before work. I know that I won't go after work, so this works for me. It's hard at first, but then you adjust.

Okay, I'm realizing that in order for me to get at least one workout in I may need to wake up an hour earlier than I already do.
Wake up time to start getting ready for work is 6am, and I like to think that I can get at least a half or hour long run in the morning. So 4:45am wakeup. Does this seem unrealistic or am I just over thinking things?

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How are you guys gearing up for the cooler weather? I'm starting to wake up to +5-7 degrees celsius, at this point I can only really afford to layer yoga capris under my baggy basketball shorts and a tee shirt over a long-sleeve shirt... What do you do?

As someone who lives in Florida, what's cold weather?? xD

Never! Two reasons:
1. Insomnia. I can't just "go to bed earlier" nor will my body ever adapt to it
2. Late night is the only time I can spend with my boyfriend

I'm a morning exerciser, too. I have to get my exercise in before everyone wakes up or it won't get done. I get up at 4:30-5:00 a.m. M-F and no later than 7:00 a.m. most weekends. (Last weekend was an aberration, though, I had to sleep!) It's not easy, especially when I have to go to bed long before my husband wants to, and when there is a show on television that I really want to watch. DVR has saved my workouts. My 4 year old demands attention, and I feel guilty not giving him that since I've been away all day. My routine is usually get up and to the gym between 5:00 and 5:30, get home no later than 6:45-7:00, wake up my son and husband, get breakfast ready for everyone, get everyone off to school/work, get them out the door by 8:00. Get myself ready and get to work. I get home around 6:00 and am in bed by 10:00-10:30.

I get to the gym at 0500 5 days a week. I am certainly not alone. We have a nice crowd that likes to get a workout in before work or the craziness of the day.

When I run in the morning I get up at 5, so 445 isn't out of the question. Key is you have to go to bed early enough so you get proper sleep. If you don't get enough sleep you'll undermine your fitness in other ways that aren't as apperant as not running.
At the very least, you'll stop doing it because you're tired.

I get up at 4:30 already. Just do it and get over it.

Okay, I'm realizing that in order for me to get at least one workout in I may need to wake up an hour earlier than I already do.
Wake up time to start getting ready for work is 6am, and I like to think that I can get at least a half or hour long run in the morning. So 4:45am wakeup. Does this seem unrealistic or am I just over thinking things?

I'm guessing from the fact that this is the only way you can fit in a workout that you're going to be losing an hour of sleep rather than going to bed an hour earlier? In which case, it may be unrealistic, depending on how much sleep you get at the moment, how much sleep your body needs, etc. If you go to bed an hour earlier, it shouldn't make much difference - it's just like adjusting to the clocks going forward.

Well, if North America would stop with the stupid Daylight Savings Time, then you would not be getting up quite so early. I just can't follow the logic of the day being any longer, since humans still need the same amount of sleep no matter what numbers the hands on the clock point to. Just so people in Toronto (or insert city name of your choice) can golf later, I guess. I grew up hearing that the farmer's wanted DST. NOT. Saskatchewan is the only sane province in Canada, full of farmers, and they refuse DST.

I live in the Arctic, DST is so completely ridiculous up here, but we still gotta do it cuz we can't think for ourselves apparently.

Rant over.

No, I wouldn't be getting up at 4:45am on DST, but I could on the regular time.

I am up at least 4 days a week at 4 to be aat the gym by 5. I have found now, if I don't work out before starting my day, it is a sure thing I will be in a bad mood and sluggish all day. I love my early morning workouts...