Who gets up early to go to the gym?

I run at 5:30 or 6 In the morning when it's really hot outside (like now) which means I get up about 4:45 so I can down my coffee and wake up a little before I go. I've ALWAYS been a morning person so it doesn't bother me. My husband gets up at 4:30 or so and works out in our basement. Once it becomes a habit you pretty much do it automatically. You just need to get over the hump.

I do! 5:15 I wake up, hit the gym by 5:30. As a wise man once said:

"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man's muscles gain massive size" - Benjamin Franklift.

I can tell you how I do it; but it probably won't help you.

MAKE IT A PRIORITY!!

If you KNOW you will not workout when you get home from work AND you really want to....then you will need to adjust your time table...maybe 15 minutes at a time until you get it adjusted where you are getting up at the time you want. I'm sorry but you WILL need to go to be earlier.

I made it a priority; I knew I had to work late (sometimes to 8pm) most nights and my drive was 35 minutes - 2 hours depending on traffic. So, I made it a priority, got up at 4:30 every morning to workout. I even had a neighbor boy ask to catch a ride with me to the gym and I told him if he was late, I would leave without him...the first day I left without him, he was never late after that.

In addition; you can 1) set your clothes out, including your socks & shoes or...I even would sleep in my workout clothes for the next morning, so all I had to do it throw on my shoes, brush my teeth, throw my hair in a band and go. Advanced preparation.....I'm already dressed, may as well go.

I do this in the warmer months, and have (by some miracle) done it in the colder ones when there was not other time I could squeeze it into my day.

What I do/have done is:
+ Get into the habit of waking up early. And going to bed early. Yes, you'll probably lie awake for a long, long while. But if you force yourself to get up at a certain time (even if you don't plan on working out), you will eventually start doing it naturally.
+ Having absolutely everything ready the night before. Sleep in your workout clothes and keep an Up&Go or something in your car if you have to.
+ Put the alarm on the other side of the room. Then you have no choice but to physically get up in order to turn it off.
+ Make it non-negotiable. Don't give yourself a choice in the matter - you'll save a lot of time dealing with the warring parts of your brain that are trying to talk you in and out of going.

Good luck :flowerforyou:

I get up at 4:55 every other morning to go to the gym to swim. Talk about torture in the winter. I set one alarm, and I argue with myself every morning. I tell myself that I can go later in the day, or I try to bargain with myself. But, every morning, I remind myself that I will feel better if I go, and every morning I'm glad I went.

I get up early to do my cardio workouts (fasted state). Depending on my goals for that day, I can be up as early as 4am. I prefer to lift weights in the afternoon (usually taking a late lunch break around 2 - 2:30pm).

To do my early mornings, I go to bed around 8 - 8:30pm. That gives me 7 - 8 hours of sleep.

Sleep is as important as exercise and diet. Don't sacrifice one for the other, you lose too much of the benefit.