Tips on getting out of bed to work out!!!

I'm a morning person, so getting up at 4:50 am is my normal routine. The best advice I've seen here is to move your alarm clock away from the bed. You might try drinking a big glass of water right before bedtime. Believe me you'll be up by 5:00 to take care of that. Once up you might as well get the work-out in.

I drag my sorry *kitten* to the basement to spend about 45 minutes on the treadmill. I have found that recording that tv show or game I wanted to watch the night before makes for a good distraction while walking. Trust me, make it your routine and you'll never be sorry.

Yep, mind over matter - you have to just decide you're going to do it. Working out at home, I have the benefit (and curse) of needing to get my workout done before the rest of my family gets up, so if I hit snooze even once, my workout is cut short or doesn't happen at all, and I hate that feeling of regret later in the day.

You said you love the feeling of having done the workout early - try to recall that feeling as part of convincing yourself to get up and move! Or put your alarm clock across the room so you have to get out of bed to turn it off - then you're already up rather than rolling over.

Keep at it, eventually it will become habit!

I set 3 alarms on my phone, 2 min apart. I also set my phone in the bathroom so I HAVE to get up and shut it off. Works pretty good

If you don't have the self discipline to get it done on your own, I cant imagine strangers on the internet can help you. There's no secret. Just do it. Decide and take action.

"Strangers on the internet" have become my motivational friends, and helped with many great ideas for kicking my own butt.

And if we all had perfect "self discipline" I don't think we would be here.

I agree Lydia!!! (And thank you for sticking up for your mommy ; ) ) I am incredibly proud of you and your progress.

Fact is we all need motivation and helpful advice, if you don't, then you're probably in the wrong place.

I could have written this, I go through the same thing. Maybe we can be accountability buddies?? When left to own devices, I can talk myself out of getting up, but if I know someone is checking up on me, then I will think twice about how I will feel telling someone else that I blew it off. Let me know what you think!

Turn the floor in your bedroom into a large, touch activated treadmill. Get out of bed in the morning, immediate running.

I first went with an elliptical at home from Brookstone ($250) and that got me motivated because you get to sleep a little longer and it's staring at you every day! Also, if you don't get to it some mornings it's waiting for you at night! And then the elliptical died and I had to get a gym membership...

I think as everyone has said though, you have to want to meet your goals and just do it. Yes, skipping the gym just this once won't set you back, but every day it will. Try to focus on the moment. To me the best feeling is the sense of accomplishment I get after I'm done. Half the town is still asleep and I've crossed such an important thing on my list. I've honored my health before the sun even rises, and I can enjoy the ret of the day with one less thing to do. It will become a habit. For me though, it's still a struggle, but one that is worth it. You can totally do it!

That said I should probably sleep now

The one thing that always worked for me is thinking about how GOOD I will feel after I work out and that I will never regret getting up to work out, but I will ALWAYS regret sleeping in.

I have found that it's easier for me to get up and out if I wear my workout clothes to bed the night before.

That's funny...maybe I should try that

Setting the alarm to go off every 2 minutes is great advice, as is moving it to where you have to get out of bed to turn it off. It really works. Maybe set it to some AWFUL sound that you find particularly annoying.

Getting up is so hard for me. The only other advice is to have a baby, but that's a whole lot more permanent.

I keep motivational "posters" on my computer go back to them when I start to feel like slacking off...
might sound silly, but it makes me remember why I started this journey and keeps me going when that alarm goes off and it's still dark outside.

If you don't have the self discipline to get it done on your own, I cant imagine strangers on the internet can help you. There's no secret. Just do it. Decide and take action.

"Strangers on the internet" have become my motivational friends, and helped with many great ideas for kicking my own butt.

And if we all had perfect "self discipline" I don't think we would be here.

THANK YOU!!! I know (or hope) everyone means well, but I personally have been trying to become a morning person for the last 20+ years . . . hasn't happened yet. I have 5 different alarms right beside my bed . . . and even that close, I still sleep through them sometimes :-( So putting them across the room isn't an option for me. Everyone is different, so just because some people find success with 'just deciding to do it' doesn't mean it will work for everyone. I'm one of the people that the 24-hr fitness places were made for . . . SO much more likely to work out at midnight/1:00am, then get up at 5:00am . . . though I still have hopes of some day being able to wake up at will in the morning. {sigh}

ETA: and the 'after a few days/weeks, it'll become habit . . . not so much. I've been a high school teacher for 14 years AND have children. STILL have trouble waking up in the morning. :-(

I will sometimes sleep in my (clean!!) gym clothes so I literally just get out of bed.

I have a Lumie clock that wakes me up with light so I am looking at light as soon as I open my eyes - if the sun is up I will open the curtains.

I also have been known to keep a 150mg caffeine pill (No Doz or similar) and bottle of water next to the bed - I take that when I press snooze on the alarm and by the time the alarm goes off again I am ready to get up because my legs are twitchy.

I also have a dog that would sit outside the door at the other end of the house and yowl and bark to be let in at 5.30am - every morning. After months of getting up and spraying her in the face with water she has FINALLY stopped doing it. But it worked for getting me up in the winter.

So I am coming back to the workout world after being out for almost 10 years. I used to wake up every morning at 5am and go for a run. Now, 50 pounds heavier and 10 years older I can't seem to drag my lazy butt out of bed!
I lay out my clothes the night before, set up my bag for the gym, even fill my water bottle, and once that alarm goes off in the morning I just keep hitting snooze until I don't have enough time to make it to the gym.
However, on the days I do make it I feel so great all day. While I am there it is so rejuvinating.
Any tips/pointers on ways to motivate myself to get out of the bed? I live alone and it is so easy to just make an excuse to sleep another hour.

As soon as you hear that alarm jump out of bed. I mean literally... jump out of bed. Once you are up and moving it's so much easier.

I take it one step at a time. I come here. GOAL met. I have some coffee. I read posts, get inspiried. I take my aspirin. Read more posts. Comment on a few. Put on my work out bras, yes plural. Then I put on my work our pants. At that point I am confidenent that I didn't just dress up. Orange juice, a few more looks to replies of my posts. Then it's the bad *kitten* Jillian! Oh yeah, I also practice where the pause button is on my DVD player. I know Jillian wants me to be fit, she doesn't want me to be dead. At 52, it is hard but my walking around feel good muscles are feeling confident.