How do you make yourself get up early?

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HarrietSabre
HarrietSabre Posts: 186 Member
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I have always wanted to be able to get up early, to get my exercise out of the way for the day and other such things. However, every time I set my alarm for early, I end up snoozing it until the last minute and rushing to work. What can I do? Going to bed early doesn't help, I still end up doing the same thing.

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  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
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    Superglue that snooze button. It's the devil.
  • jesmith86
    jesmith86 Posts: 46
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    Hi,

    I generally have everything packed and ready to go, i then get up and sit on the couch for a couple of minutes until I wake up, then get food ready and get changed and push through it for the first week, getting my body used to it. This works for me, just by getting out of bed straight away and moving to the couch and generally checking FB wakes me up enough to get to the gym. the first 3 days are the hardest, but perseverance is key. Maybe even get a friend to help, send each other texts or meet at the gym or a place to run?
  • SusanUW83
    SusanUW83 Posts: 152 Member
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    Find someone to work out with in the morning. Meeting someone has always been a strong motivator for me -- I don't want to be the one not to show up. Or even have them call you when they get up -- harder to ignore.
  • lottee1000
    lottee1000 Posts: 447 Member
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    I set two alarms. one by my bed, which is a five minute warning, and one which is in another room, but it's super loud, so I have to get up and turn it off before it wakes all my neighbours! Annoying every day, but it works...
  • HarrietSabre
    HarrietSabre Posts: 186 Member
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    Hi,

    I generally have everything packed and ready to go, i then get up and sit on the couch for a couple of minutes until I wake up, then get food ready and get changed and push through it for the first week, getting my body used to it. This works for me, just by getting out of bed straight away and moving to the couch and generally checking FB wakes me up enough to get to the gym. the first 3 days are the hardest, but perseverance is key. Maybe even get a friend to help, send each other texts or meet at the gym or a place to run?

    That would definitely work, but I have no-one to work out with in the morning because all of my friends work different shifts. Hm.
  • SuperC_85
    SuperC_85 Posts: 393
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    Deactivate the snooze button :smile:
    I'm up at 6am every morning, but if I have a snooze button i will use it, so I deactivate it and now I have no choice but to get up.

    Try putting your alarm a little further from the bed, then you physically have to get up to put it off.
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
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    You just have to practice and it will become easier over time. Try doing a few days at a time then add another day then another, etc.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
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    I used to have put my alarm on the other side of the room. To hit snooze, I actually had to get out of bed.

    Anymore, I have a 2 year old who generally wakes me up well before my alarm goes off.
  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
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    Set my alarm and get out of bed once it goes off... there's really nothing else to it.

    I'm not a morning person and I do not sleep well (average of 4 hours a night) and I still get up to go to the gym. It sucks but it's what I have to do.
  • zeussmith718
    zeussmith718 Posts: 29 Member
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    I set 3 alarms, phone that goes off at 4:07 in the kitchen, 1 in the living room that goes off at 4:05, and one in my bedroom that I have to get up to shut off goes off at 4:09. I hit the snooze's until 4:30ish, all are very loud and annoying... usually have to be at work 45minutes away at 6am, sadly on the weekend I cant sleep in past 7am even if I stay out late and often wake up naturally around 5am.
  • sami_83
    sami_83 Posts: 161
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    I don't. I've tried and failed and it just bums me out. My body clock is just like 'NOPE'. I work out in the evening instead and it's a much better option for me.
  • AddingSparkle
    AddingSparkle Posts: 4
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    I used to have put my alarm on the other side of the room. To hit snooze, I actually had to get out of bed.

    ^ This... there is no way around getting out of bed to turn the alarm off ;)
  • SarahxApple
    SarahxApple Posts: 166 Member
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    Book an early class, I never worked out in the morning when I was just going for a run and needed to be up at 5.30am, now I do a CrossFit class at 6am and I am up at 4.45am 3 mornings a week. Personally the idea that I would a) feel like I'd let people down by not being in the class I booked and b) the financial loss was a BIG motivator.
  • wannakimmy
    wannakimmy Posts: 488 Member
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    I will apologize in advance for how this is going to come out, because I do not intend for it to be taken rudely.

    It has to matter enough to you. You have to make yourself do it, if it is something you really want.

    If it were a job, and you had to get up at 4, would you do it? Is a job more important than your health?

    JMO, good luck to you :)
  • 294Rich
    294Rich Posts: 171 Member
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    First of all, to get up earlier, you have to go to bed earlier. If you are too tired to exercise and then get through the day, then you probably need to go to bed sooner. Make sure that your exercise gear is ready and available before you go to bed. Then, the rest really is up to you!
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
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    Get to sleep early and get up fresh.
  • thavoice
    thavoice Posts: 1,326 Member
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    There really isnt a secret to getting up early and doing your exercise.

    It is just plain discipline.

    That is it. If you want it bad enough you will do it.
  • Iknowsaur
    Iknowsaur Posts: 777 Member
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    I registered for morning courses while in an overly optimistic mood, and my fear of losing my honors scholarship shames me out of bed every morning.
  • Dube11
    Dube11 Posts: 93 Member
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    If your alarm goes off while you are in REM sleep you are going to feel tired and groggy. The trick is to time when you go to bed and when you wake up. Each sleep cycle is roughly 90 minutes so if you can wake up at the end of the cycle you'll feel more awake when the alarm goes off and more likely to get out of bed.
  • thavoice
    thavoice Posts: 1,326 Member
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    ..and to expound on my post.....


    It is like the chicken and the egg. What comes first? Going to bed early so you can wake refreshed early and workout, or get up early so you feel tired enough at night go to bed eary?

    Personally I found it easier to bite the bullet, get up early and do it and then you get into a cycle where you will feel tired and want to go to bed earlier in the evenings. First couple of times it was a little difficult but soon you feel like going to bed earlier because you were up early.

    I never was able to start out my routines by just going to bed earlier...just wasnt tired enough, so I struggled a few days to get up early with much less sleep and soon your body adjusts.

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