Anyone wake up early to workout?

If so what time and how do you make yourself get out of bed?
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  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    i start at 4am, half a cup of coffee and out the door i go.
  • juliana0813
    juliana0813 Posts: 49
    i used to get up at 5:45 am to go running because where i live, it gets hot very quickly, so early in the morning it was still cool. I admit, it's not easy (Especially for a teenager) but i just thought of the results i'd get and if i didn't do it, i'd feel crappy for the whole day. :-)
  • HannahJDiaz25
    HannahJDiaz25 Posts: 329 Member
    I have a bootcamp/class at 5:45. I get up at 4:30 and pack my gym bag with my work clothes, drink water, dress, make smoothie, drink more water and I'm out the door by 5:20... :-)

    I'm SO NOT a morning person, but I found out that if i don't work out first thing in morning, life gets in the way and I never get around to it!
    Oh nad how do make myself get up??? I set the alarm FAR away from my bed... but on a very loud, annoying setting. If I can just get my self to stand up-I'm good to go LOL
  • emuravyeva
    emuravyeva Posts: 103 Member
    This is not meant to sound stupid: cold floor. I have laminate flooring in the bedroom and it gives me that jolt to wake up.

    Also, put your alarm clock across the room the night before so it will force you to get out of bed to shut it off. If you live with a spouse/partner/roomie, ask them to hide it somewhere. You'll be WIDE awake by the time you find it.
  • Mrshotwing
    Mrshotwing Posts: 166 Member
    5 am! That seems to be the only time I can fit in 30 minutes to do my workout. My newborn gets the evenings when i get home from work...
  • bmiller211
    bmiller211 Posts: 222 Member
    I start work at 7 am and get up at 415 do either a 2.5 mile run or bodypump at the gym...getting up has become a ritual and is quite easy. I used to be a night person but from 30 years of early rising I have gotten so used to it I don't think I could change back!
  • PhatDiaries
    PhatDiaries Posts: 7 Member
    i've tried the 4 am workout but i cant seem to get myself out of bed.. maybe i should just throw myself out of bed when the alarm rings hahaha!!
  • weinbagel
    weinbagel Posts: 337 Member
    I have tried this before, but I find that I'm just not awake enough haha. I make time to work out after work (which for me, is around 3:30pm).
  • kellygeorge8182
    kellygeorge8182 Posts: 6 Member
    4:45am T/T (boot camp); 5:45am W/F (run). 6:45am S/S (boot camp). Because if not then, then it just doesn't happen.

    And there's not really a trick to it. You just have to do it. But once it's done you have a lot more energy throughout the day.

    I really do get more done by noon than most people do all day. But only because i haul my *kitten* out of bed and get it done.
  • dorianaldyn
    dorianaldyn Posts: 611 Member
    My alarm goes off at 4:05 and I'm usually out the door, on my run, by 4:30. I've become quite good at running in the dark!
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    Alarm goes off at 3AM. I'm at the gym by 3:20.

    I have that internal argument going on every morning. "Get up, this is your time!" and "Oh FFS!, sleep all the way to 5! Imagine how sweet that would be!"

    ...and every morning I just get up.
  • Early is the only way with me, almost impossible to do a workout with toddlers around my feet. I set a goal at getting up 7 am before kids for 30 minutes dvd session. I actually enjoy the fact that I've achieved it and the rest of the day is mine. Also get your calorie increase early on helps me plan food intake for the day. Sleep and feel better too. It actually energises me. This is all from someone who HATED exercise
  • neacail
    neacail Posts: 228 Member
    My alarm goes off at 5am, and I usually get out of bed pretty quickly to use the wash-room. I only do 20-30 minutes or easy to moderate exercise in the morning, and it is usually cardio: to get things loosened up and moving.
  • dez_yaoichan
    dez_yaoichan Posts: 454
    I have to be at work at 9am so I get up around 5:30

    30 minutes to wake up and check my computer
    1 hour to get set up and finish my work out
    1 hour to cook and eat breakfast
    45 minutes to get ready for work
    15 minutes to drive

    I get home around 6:30-7pm and am in bed around 10:30pm

    at the end of the day I am too tired to even care about working out, so if I get it done early I can just focus on my day.
  • 19Lindsay76
    19Lindsay76 Posts: 135
    5 A.M. I have to do my workouts before work, if i don't i can never make myself do it when i get home.
  • socioseguro
    socioseguro Posts: 1,679 Member
    I wake at 4 am to start my workout at 5 am.

    I prepare all logistics the night before. My protein shake at the fridge and my water container in the gym bag.

    All workout clothes and shoes ready next to bed. All I have to do is lace up and go.

    I go to bed very early for most people. I do not go out at night anymore. I feel healthy and strong. Priceless.
  • Yooperm35
    Yooperm35 Posts: 787 Member
    I'm not that early. 6:30 am when my teen leaves for school. Sometimes I get really lazy and go back to bed until 8am. I work afternoon shift, though, so I get home from work around 11pm and don't leave until 2:30pm
  • 5AM and to the gym by 5:30. I have everything ready to go the night before. My gym bag, work clothes picked out and in the bag, etc. I do all my personal hygeine tasks at the gym after my workout. All I do is hit the alarm, change into my gym clothes and jump into my car. Key for me is to get driving into the direction of the gym before my mind and body realize what's happening. LOL.
  • LuckySe7en
    LuckySe7en Posts: 49
    I do. I have to be to work at 9am, and my commute takes around an hour and a half, so I need to be out of the house by 7:30. In order to get in my morning workout I wake up at 5:45 at the latest. Sometimes I dilly dally, but I get up. No snooze. I make myself get out of bed by doing morning affirmations, (Every cell in my body is filled with vitality and healing. I am at peace and in harmony within myself, and will fill my body with that which nourishes me.) and I have a goal dress hanging on my wall. I tell myself that if I skip today, then that is one day longer I wait to fit in that dress. It's hard because I just started working out in the morning, and I used to hit the snooze like 8 times. But I still manage. :smile:
  • JenHol79
    JenHol79 Posts: 90 Member
    working out in the am is my ultimate goal - I think it's just going to be something I force and make a routine. I have two small kids (8 & 5) and my husband works long hours so when I get off work and home its non stop but routine and if I get out of routine everything seems to go out of wack. So I think if I make getting up early a routine and could stick with it then I would be more ap to do it. If only it were that easy haha. Im a snooze person and it doesnt matter where my alarm is I will get up, hit snooze and go back to bed
  • crimsoncat
    crimsoncat Posts: 457 Member
    I wake up at 5-6am all summer to garden for 2 hours a day. Does that count?
  • JonathanBB
    JonathanBB Posts: 252 Member
    I am NOT a morning person and there are days I drag myself out of bed at 5:45 to take out the dog and do my 30 minute workout. I know - nothing compared to some of those early risers [4 a.m.? really? Why bother getting in bed even?]. Motivation: I use visualization: How will I feel at 7:45 as I leave the house and at 10 a.m. and the rest of the day if I drag myself out of bed and do this workout versus how will I feel if I roll over and sleep an extra 45 minutes? I actually have more energy post-workout than post 45 minutes extra sleep and feel better all day. That is what does iot for me. If I am really beat in the morning I might do yoga instead of a more intense cardio or upper body or core workout.
  • MrsLettieC
    MrsLettieC Posts: 1 Member
    I get up at 4:45 feed the cats, make a to go coffee. I pack my work clothes and lunch the night before so I can grab it and go. It took me almost two years and two alarm clocks to be able to do it. But it is so worth it!!! There's always a swimming lane open or Treadmill ready with my name on it!
  • cmart69
    cmart69 Posts: 15
    I do. I have found that the early mornings are the best time of day for me to be in control of.....once work and 4 kids and the rest of life get going it's CRAZY! I do not belong to a gym, everything is done at home purely out of necessity - my husband is in the military and currently gone on a 1yr deployment.

    I am up at 4:30am every day - yes, even on weekends. It took about a month for that wake up time to become a habit vs. a PITA. I workout/cool down from 5-6:30am, hit the showers, and am ready to start my day by 7-7:15 when my kids get up.
  • nsage1
    nsage1 Posts: 8
    I know how you feel! It's hard to get up. I have to take my son in law to work everyday at 5:30am so that helps me get up. I was working out at the gym but now I joined a strength and conditioning class where my kids attend taekwondo and its night classes 7:30 or 8pm. If your not a morning person working out at night might be easier for you.
  • LyndaMRou
    LyndaMRou Posts: 54 Member
    5 A.M. I have to do my workouts before work, if i don't i can never make myself do it when i get home.

    Asolutely! Though we don't have to get up that early, I still consider 6:15 "early" and find that if I get to the gym in the morning before I'm fully awake, I'm halfway though my workout before I'm aware I'm there. I love the morning boost to my metabolism and attitude to boot -- a great way to start the day.
  • deidresilva
    deidresilva Posts: 17
    The ONLY way I have been able to stick w/ my early wake up- work out plan was to figure out, plan and stick to a routine..

    My biggest obsticals: 1) SO not a morning person 2) My gym doesn't have interesting morning classes that are at the same time every day.. (im a 9-5er... why would I do a 5:15 class one day, a 5:30, or a 6:15 the next? a-hem 24 hr fitness...) 3) 6am is SO EARLYYYY :'(

    How Ive overcome them:
    1) Last summer I signed up for crossfit and did their 6am class! I made a couple friends in the class and it got me motivated even more to get out of bed!
    2) When my $$ ran out from crossfit (haha!) My neighbor and I created a routine w/ Jillian Micheals Ripped in 30 DVD... We set up a time.. (7am) met in her living room, turned on week 1 and made a routine M-F 30 mins w/ Jillian then 30 min girl chat time w/ coffee ;) and we worked our way up to week 4!
    3) On biz travel- I look up local gyms/barre classes/bootcamps.. whatever sounds interesting... and that has classes at the SAME TIME / EVERY DAY (Super important to me) ... put down the plastic.. and get back on it!!!

    Also- Coffee helps too... :P
  • mommy2313
    mommy2313 Posts: 9
    Wow!! Thank you ALL for your responses!! Sounds like it's something you just gotta DO!!! Just DO IT!!! I'll be setting my alarm for 4:00 Monday morning and having my daughter hide it somewhere in my room..sounds like that will work until i get use to getting up that early...gotta sacrifice to reach my goals nooo doubt! Thanks y'all!!!! :bigsmile:
  • reztib
    reztib Posts: 151 Member
    I set my alarm for 4 AM. My Fitbit One has a silent alarm which works wonders and actually gives me interesting data on how I sleep. I am usually out the door for my run at 4:45-5:00. The biggest thing for me is getting enough sleep. If I am in bed by 10 PM, not necessarily asleep at that time, I usually don't hit the snooze button. Getting enough sleep is my biggest predictor of whether or not I workout the next morning. If I can get a good 5-6 hours, I will usually workout.
  • curleegirl68
    curleegirl68 Posts: 53 Member
    I wake up at 4:30 to be working out at 5:15, 5:30. I started in November when Daylight Savings time fell back one hour. IT is hard now with Spring Forward though. On the weekends I have no problem. It honestly is a sacrifice, but you get your workout out of the way and feel so energized.

    I have to finish by 6:15-6:20 so I can prepare lunch, take a shower, have breakfast, etc etc.

    Don't get me wrong, there are days when I really don't feel like it, but as soon as I start exercising I feel a lot better.