Working out in the morning

I just recently moved 45 minutes from where I work, that's without traffic. So if I don't get up and workout in the morning I'm sitting in traffic for over an hour and not a happy camper. Before I moved and lived 10 minutes away it wasn't that easy. I just had to force myself to do it. Otherwise I got in the habit of eating the calories I thought I was gonna burn and then never made it. Once you get into the routine of doing it you get used to it. For me its a really great way to start the day and get ya going.

Aah thats the same girl I want to be! Right now Im settling for the girl that gets up at 7am and walks outside:)

Start by just getting out of bed... then put your gym clothes on and make your coffee. Once you are in your gym clothes, you will probably be much more motivated to do something. Start easy, go for a walk outside or turn on a video in your living room. If you have a workout planned the night before it is way easier to be motivated than if you are just getting up to "wing it." Also, if your partner gets up with you it is waaaaayy easier. If you must workout after work, bring a snack to eat about an hour before your scheduled workout than hit it hard and go home. You have to just fit it in whenever you have time and will do it. If you want to be a morning person, be a morning person. It gets easier with time!

I'm with you. It's really hard. I'm to tired to get up and get dressed so what I found that works for me is that I go to sleep with my sports bra and tank on. That way I tell myself "Well your half dressed so get up!" And I set my alarm to go off every 5 minutes. Afterwards I feel really good that I worked out.

i would love to be able to work out in the mornings all the time but i get up at 5 to be in work for 6 as it is - getting up any earlier is just the middle of the night!! but i enjoy my morning workouts on my days off, its great to know it out of the way for the rest of the day!

Anytime I've been consistent with exercise it has been when I made myself get up early and exercise. At one time that meant I was getting up at 4:30am. I am not a morning person, but I made myself go to bed earlier so that I could get up earlier. I did it every single day and just made myself get in the habit. At first it killed me getting up, but I made myself go to bed a little earlier every night until I was getting enough sleep even getting up early. Now, I'm a stay-at-home mom of two small children, they get me up plenty early to exercise, but it took me a while to figure out a way to exercise with them and get in at least one exercise session everyday. I still exercise first thing in the morning, starting as soon as I get breakfast ready for my girls. I also usually get in an additional afternoon exercise session at least a few days every week.

Good luck!

Here is how I've tricked myself into becoming a morning exercise fan...
When I had a gym membership: I would sleep in my workout clothes. That way I wouldn't have to think about it in the morning, I'd just be ready to grab my ipod, keys, and put on my shoes and be out the door. I would get everything ready the night before so that if I got up and saw it laying there I'd feel bad for not going. I put my alarm clock across the room so that I would have to actually GET UP to hit snooze. I would consciously remind myself when it went off that if I did not go, I would not do it later. I would think about "What day is it today? Do I have plans after work? Then I better get going, or else I won't exercise later". I also found that once I listened to some of the same music that whenever I would hear those same songs at other times of day it would make me wish I was working out.
Currenlty without a gym membership: I do have an elliptical trainer at home. (I wanted a treadmill, but hubby won that argument haha). I don't like to run outside alone at 6 am, being a female by myself and all (hubby is not a morning person, and not at the same pace as me, so going together around the neighborhood is not an option). When the alarm goes off (still across the room), I think about how I want to cuddle with my cat, so I go find her, and then once I'm up at my usual work-out time, I have nothing else to do for the extra 30 minutes, so I go ahead and get on the elliptical. We have a t.v. in the same room, so I watch the morning news while I work out.
Also in the past: At one point, I did want to go out around the neighborhood, so I resorted to putting an ad on craigslist. I asked for someone to let me walk their dog (I can not have one). They were super excited that someone wanted to walk their dog for free, and I was super excited to have a companion for my morning jog. However, this didn't end up panning out for very long, because they were an older couple that could not get up as early as I needed to go for my jogs. So... I stopped working out all together.
You just have to figure out what ways your brain wants you to trick it into working out. For me I think the #1 thing is knowing that it will be out of the way for the whole day and I wont have to worry about it until the next morning.

I never have been able to do it. I think because I don't fully wake up in the morning, I hazely convince myself of anything. - It's too cold, I clearly didn't sleep well (even if I slept perfectly well), my hair needs to be washed instead. I ended realising that my work isn't as far from my home as I first thought. It's about 6.5ks. (Erskineville/Sydney CBD) and it takes about an 1.5 hours to walk home every day. It means I don't have to get up early, I don't get home from work tired and fall into my afternoon nap, tv, dinner, routine plus try and find the motivation to get out and exercise. BONUS - it so much better then sitting in peak hour traffic for the 40mins or on the stuffy train.

Having read some posts here however, sleeping in gym clothes sounds perfect. I always think - it's all very well the gym class being at 6.15am but it means I have to get up, and get ready for it too! This might actually help!!