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  • hsbryant88
    hsbryant88 Posts: 12 Member
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    I have had struggle with this too so i started getting up a littel earlier everyday. Drink a cup of coffee to get warmed up, plus coffee speeds up metabolism so i then have to motivate myself that i need to do this workout for myself. you can do it!!! :)
  • Riemersma4
    Riemersma4 Posts: 400 Member
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    Couple of thoughts for you:
    * start slow. 15 minutes earlier per day for the first week or two. Light work out. 30 minutes the next weeks, 45 minutes and so on.
    * integrate it in to your day. Walk steps at work. Walk everywhere and avoid driving, etc. Carry things when you can. Do some squats in your office while ona conf call. you get the picture.
    * got a gym near you? Work out over lunch. bust out a hard 30 minutes. grab a quick shower and down a power packed recovery lunch.

    Obviously, it has to work with you and when it is TRULY important to you, it will. I suspect if I offered to give $20 for each day that you woke up at 5:00 a.m. and brewed a pot of coffee, you would make it hapen, right?

    Good luck.
  • sweetsarahv
    sweetsarahv Posts: 180 Member
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    do you have any friends that you can meet? i get up early on tuesdays and thursdays to meet my trainer. if i have to meet someone, it is easier for me to get up as i don't want to waste anyone's time!
  • green022
    green022 Posts: 115
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    I'm not a morning person. I work out after work.

    If you really want to try to work out in the morning you could always try:
    - Laying out your work out clothes and shoes the night before.
    - Setting your alarm clock across the room so that you have to get up to turn it off.
    - Sleep in your work out clothes.
    - Just do it.

    ^^ THIS I hate morning work outs but I like my evenings free so I just roll my lazy rear outta bed and do it ! Good Luck
  • mzjessicaxo
    mzjessicaxo Posts: 330 Member
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    When it becomes important to you, you'll make it happen. Right now, the sleep is more important. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, good or bad, it's just where you are right now.

    Spot on!
    When you're ready to do it you'll do it!
  • MightyDomo
    MightyDomo Posts: 1,265 Member
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    Prepare for being up early and make it habit (get used to getting up early just to fit in that workout).

    Prepare what you need the next day from clothes to lunch and then get to bed early enough that you can fall asleep and get your full 8 hours and wake up when you want to get that morning routine in. That way you can cut down on the time in the morning that you will need to get ready and can get your workout in.

    Try making a schedule, it might help you with budgeting your time :P That also might be the crazy in me since I do that.
  • alw141
    alw141 Posts: 59 Member
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    I get up at 5:30, leave the house at 6. Something I have observed over the years is that when you are in bed, you don't want to get up. BUT, once you are up for about 5 minutes, it's all fine, you are awake and ready to roll. Some have mentioned getting all your stuff laid out the night before, that's a good idea. Give yourself a little momentum building mantra, something like "all right, one, two, I'M UP!", then just get the hell out of bed straight up with no hesitation. Really it's a habit. Good luck.

    THIS! :happy:
  • Anthonydaman
    Anthonydaman Posts: 854 Member
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    Great idea
    Here's what I did and totally recommend... (baby steps)...

    Go to bed 15 minutes earlier the night before and get up just 15 minutes earlier the next morning. do 20 minutes of cardio to get your blood flowing. Try this for a few weeks and you should see that your body will natural adjust to the new schedule. Then add 5 minutes on each end so now you are going to bed 20 minutes earlier and waking up 20 minutes earlier. Again, do this for a few weeks and your body should adjust.

    The nice part of doing it in baby steps is that you don't feel like you lose too much sleep time in the morning and you don't lose too much time at night either.

    I used to go to bed at 10:30 every night and up at 5:30. Then I slowly adjusted this schedule and now I am in bed by 9:00 and lights out at 9:30. I try to roll out of bed by 4:45. It's still not easy but it's easier!

    Good Luck!
  • Prettyskinny69
    Prettyskinny69 Posts: 10
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    What used to help me is setting my alarm far away in my room so I'd have to get up and walk to turn it off. That wakes me up a little bit. Maybe set it for 10 minutes earlier than you want to get up so that you can go, lie in bed for 10 minutes then realize you won't be falling back asleep and you'll get up and work out! Also, make sure you're going to bed at a good time! It's much easier to wake up after 8 hours of sleep than only 5.
  • SpleenThief
    SpleenThief Posts: 293 Member
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    Nothing new to add so I'll just iterate since it actually works.

    Plan EVERYTHING.

    When I went to bed last night I had my workout gear set aside so I could wear it to the gym. Clothes for work packed in my gym bag since I had to leave right to work from the gym. Lunch and breakfast packed and ready. I was up and out the door in 20 minutes, before I even realized I was awake.
  • green022
    green022 Posts: 115
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    I need help. I want so badly to get up in the morning and workout. Working out after work takes precious time away from my kids. Every day around this time I say to myself "Tomorrow is the day! I am going to get my butt up and work out." Well 5:30 comes around the next day I can't (okay won't) get out of bed. That last 30-45 minutes of sleep seems more important. I am so exhausted.

    I know there are many people out there that started out this way. How did you do it? What made it click? I know the common answer is "Just do it". I say that to myself, but ugh.. I don't "Do it".


    Please suggestions???
    Can't get up? Then eat a heavy breakfast and workout on your lunch break.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness industry for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

    Your kind of a softy for a kickboxing instructor/trainer :huh:

    Idk it will help but set a mini work out for each morning even if its 10 mins stick to that and when you start to feel better about it do more. Seems to help like the others said when you plan everything and stick to it.
  • LindseyAlyssa
    LindseyAlyssa Posts: 156
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    I haven't read through the other responses so I apologize if this has been brought up, but have you maybe thought about working out WITH your children? I don't know their ages, but when I was younger my brother and I would do Gilad VHS tapes with both of my parents everyday and had a blast. They were only 20 minutes long, and it goes by pretty quickly. I was probably 4 or 5 at the time. Couldn't do all the moves, but it was great family time and both my parents were still able to workout.
    My mom would also find "kid" workout tapes for us and she would do them with us, and probably change moves to make them more difficult for herself. Just something to think about :)
  • Gabriall
    Gabriall Posts: 101 Member
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    i love my sleep, i hate mornings.... however... my family increased by two last year, they showed up unnannounced and have never left... but they also insist on being fed at 5.30am (sometimes earlier), makes it very hard to sleep when your hair is being pulled by a loving but hungry fury alarm clock with no off switch.

    which in turn made it very easy to get up, feed them and go for a run. obviously this solution is definately not going to work for everybody, even if you do have cats they are impossible to set as alarm clocks ;)
  • RonnieLodge
    RonnieLodge Posts: 665 Member
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    I keep a caffeine pill next to the bed with a glass of water. When I stir in the morning I pop the pill and 10mins later I can't help but want to get up!

    In the winter I will wear gym clothes to bed and have everything packed the night before so I can literally get up and go.
  • HOLLEE85
    HOLLEE85 Posts: 89
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    I wake up at 5:00 every morning to workout and it's still hard sometimes but I just keep telling myself "workout now and you will have the rest of the day to get other things done" So I sleepily wonder into the kitchen measure out my cereal and have a small breakfast before I get ready to workout. It defilently helps doing something small to wake up first.
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,472 Member
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    i do all mine in the morn, get up, have a coffee, kick some *kitten*, JUST DO IT!
  • Cassierocksalot
    Cassierocksalot Posts: 266 Member
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    I've recently become a morning exerciser. 3 days a week at the gym and 3 days at home. I'm up at 4:30 am either way. What helped me (and I know everyone isn't this lucky) is that my husband gets up with me! He usually just rolls out of bed, lets the dog out and sits on the couch and plays video games, but knowing that he's not laying in our nice warm bed without me makes ALL the difference. It's been a couple of months now and it's a lot easier now. I didn't even realize this morning that he'd stayed in bed (he's got the flu) until I was done with my workout and getting into the shower.

    If you really want to do it, you'll find a way. Just don't expect it to work perfectly the first time. Once you find that thing that works for you, everything will fall together. Good luck!
  • fervc6064
    fervc6064 Posts: 77
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    I'm struggling with this myself. I'm not a morning person. Lots of good advice on this thread though.

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