Morning Workouts

BetterFasterStronger
BetterFasterStronger Posts: 33
edited December 30 in Fitness and Exercise
All you morning folks please share your secrets about how you get yourself up and at it for an a.m. workout. Life would be so much better if I could get my booty outta bed at 5 a.m. for my workouts! How do you do it?

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  • tinad120
    tinad120 Posts: 267 Member
    Never hit snooze.
  • Farburnfred
    Farburnfred Posts: 333 Member
    Don't give your brain a chance to turn on, just get up and then you wake up 1/2 way through!

    But some of us are morning people and some not. I can get up and exercise at 6 but am tucked up in bed by 10 at the latest. Do whats best for you.
  • bellydancer124
    bellydancer124 Posts: 248
    Never hit snooze.

    ^ This

    I have to drag my carcass out of bed at 5:30, since my daughter's school bus comes at 6:25. As soon as she leaves for school, I don't allow myself to go back to bed. I head straight for the gym. It's TOUGH since I'm a night owl and didn't realize 5:30 HAD an a.m. until recently.
  • FluffyDogsRule
    FluffyDogsRule Posts: 366 Member
    yep...they are right...never hit snooze! get out of bed AS SOON AS your alarm goes off. it stinks...but i've never regretted a morning workout AFTER the workout. :)

    and go to bed early enough.
  • kw85296
    kw85296 Posts: 265 Member
    Do not put your alarm clock within arms reach. If you have to get up to turn it off, it is easier to tell yourself you are up and might as well stay up. You eventually get semi used to it. I am actually a night person, but have had to learn to get up and moving at 5 am.
  • iWaffle
    iWaffle Posts: 2,208 Member
    I tried to talk myself out of it this morning. I always try to talk myself out of it but then I get up anyway, and just go through the motions of putting on shorts and shoes, half-way comb my hair, splash some water on my face and then by that point I'm out of the zombie mode and actually sort of looking forward to exercising. Just focus on getting up and getting dressed. That's the majority of the battle. Once you start your workout you always love it, never regret it, and are so glad that you followed through with it.

    Get an accountability partner. I always tell my wife I'm working out the night before and if I don't she'll ask me about it. I just do cardio in the morning and I know that if I don't it won't show up on RunKeeper and my friends on my Street Team will see that I haven't been doing anything. Find a friend here on MFP that will ask if you did your morning workout.

    I did 3 miles this morning. It was cool out, the sky was a beautiful rosey color, and It's much easier to justify snacking when I rip through 525 calories of fuel even before I eat breakfast. You're missing out. Get started tomorrow morning.
  • dmurphy1975
    dmurphy1975 Posts: 45 Member
    For me it's about thinking of all of the evening kids activities that I have used as an excuse not to workout.
  • mfpcopine
    mfpcopine Posts: 3,093 Member
    Sleep in your workout clothes, or pre-pack your athletic bag and lay out your clothes on a chair near your bed.
  • lamarnnem
    lamarnnem Posts: 189
    Sleep in your workout clothes, or pre-pack your athletic bag and lay out your clothes on a chair near your bed.

    Perfect my shoes are next to the bed and shorts or pants. I wake up and go. It's just a routine and it feels better getting it out the way.
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    You just roll out of bed and get going.......(it's easy for morning people like me, not so easy for normal people who actually enjoy that extra half hour of sleep)
  • _danjo_
    _danjo_ Posts: 134 Member
    Knowing that I won't have the whole day to talk myself out of it or "not have time." Get it done and it's already done!
  • kimmymayhall
    kimmymayhall Posts: 419 Member
    Sleep in your workout clothes, or pre-pack your athletic bag and lay out your clothes on a chair near your bed.

    Yes. I put my shoes on as soon as I get up. If I've got my shoes on I'm much less likely to talk myself out of actually doing it.
    That being said, it did take me far too long to decide to actually get up when the alarm went off instead of just rolling over and sleeping a bit more.
  • tabbydog
    tabbydog Posts: 4,925 Member
    I get up at 4:00 so I can have coffee and "staring time" before 5:00 am boot camp. Get the coffee ready the night before, and get all your clothes set out and water bottle ready so you don't have to think, just get up and go! It gets easier when you get used to it. On the nights before boot camp I also try to be in bed by 9:30.
  • dlpoisson
    dlpoisson Posts: 19 Member
    I also get up between 5 and 5:45 to workout before work. But, I gave myself permission to do shorter workouts. You can get a good workout done in a short amount of time. Concentrate on quality, intensity rather than minutes! Then you can sleep a little longer.
  • aaronf289
    aaronf289 Posts: 50 Member
    I put my favorite workouts in the middle of the week, when it was the hardest for me to get up. Now I'm motivated to make it to the gym on the days I'm most likely to stuggle out of bed. Has worked great for me......haven't missed one yet!!!!
  • Icandoit66
    Icandoit66 Posts: 74 Member
    Have all my workout stuff ready the night before and I know my workout buddy is waiting for me at the gym! Thank God I have a workout buddy because I don't know if I would make it every day if not! Great way to start the day!!
  • Juliane_
    Juliane_ Posts: 373 Member
    I think one of the big keys to getting up early is going to bed early. I'm still working on it.
  • Momma1213
    Momma1213 Posts: 56
    I think about the clothes I want to wear again. It's hard, I never want to roll out of bed at 5:30 but I want to weigh less even more!
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    Every thing is ready the night before.

    I get up at 3:10 to be at the gym by 3:30. I've found that going at least 5 days a week helps because you can get in to a real sleep cycle. Getting up at 3 one day 6 the next and 3 again after that just doesn't work.
  • jobre
    jobre Posts: 1
    Have someone who is reliable to workout with, we go at 5 am and run outside... so now that its dark and cold you feel will feel really bad having them standing at the end of your driveway waiting for you!! :yawn:
  • jamers3111
    jamers3111 Posts: 495 Member
    I know myself too well... I know that if I don't workout then I will most likely not workout the rest of the day. I remind myself how great I feel AFTER and how much energy I have the rest of the day. I usually get in a 2nd workout, too!
  • anrev42
    anrev42 Posts: 331
    ...my reason? I like my downtime when I get home after work. That's my motivation! Do it now and get that done so I'm able to enjoy and relax at night.
  • brian90
    brian90 Posts: 285 Member
    isnt much of a secret. jsut juump out of bed right away. if you let yourself lay there, you wil lnever get up.
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