morning workout

Im the same... i tried once, i got up 15 minutes earlier and did 10mins on the stepper - hardly worth it!!! Haven't done anything since! Struggle waking up for work, let alone even earlier to work out

1) Many doctors informally recommend that you spend a few days or a week just waking up early before starting an exercise regimin (get your body into the groove so to speak)

2) I also have had sucess by sleeping in my gym clothes- its the stupidest thing, but knowing I don't have to change when I get up makes it soo much easier to get out of bed.

This might sound strange but I have to prep myself the night before if I want to get up early to exercise. I take a few moments before I fall asleep to think about why I want to get up at 5:30 am. I ask myself how important is it to me to get up that early? Because if I don't think it's important it's not going to happen.

It did get easier. I look at early morning exercise as "me time" and have really come to enjoy it.

Psych yourself up for it! Set your alarm in the morning for 10-15 minutes prior to when you want to be UP for the work out. Tell yourself what time you need to be out the door for your work out and give yourself 10 or so minutes to get your work out clothes on, water bottle filled, sneakers on, etc. It's all about timing.

It was hard for me when I first started...and I was running. But I fell in love with how my body felt afterwards. I would be freshly showered before work, calves were sore and felt GREAT in my heels, and I loved how my metabolism was revved the rest of the day and it just made me want to eat healthy all day.

I don't have the same job or schedule now so I don't have to wake up as early to work out but I still work out in the mornings or early afternoons and love it. It sets the tone for my day.

My husband has been waking up at 5 to go to the gym before work (his office has a gym attached...best thing ever). I usually go into work 2 hours after him, so I would just sleep. But this January I started waking up with him to go to the gym before work. It is hard for someone who is not an early riser to get in the swing of things, but after awhile it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. A few things:
a) MUCH easier to be motivated to get up if there is someone you are going with and/or meeting at the gym, even if you don't do your workouts together. I watch Seinfeld every morning on the cardio machines and it makes me laugh and gets me some good mojo for the day
b) on days when I would rather sleep an extra 20 minutes, I will tell my husband to beat it and then after I've snoozed, I go downstairs and do a 35-40 minute workout from Netflix (they have a ton of fitness DVDs available. some are cheesy, but some are ok)
c) some days I say "screw it" and make sure I take the dog on an extra-long walk in the evenings when I get back from work.

It works for some people to be super-regimented about waking up every morning for the gym or a workout, but it works better for me to make it to the gym 3 days a week and then vary my workout routine to keep things going.

Best of luck!

It was hard for me when I first started.... But I fell in love with how my body felt afterwards. I would be freshly showered before work, calves were sore .............. and I loved how my metabolism was revved the rest of the day and it just made me want to eat healthy all day. It sets the tone for my day.

I totally agree! It would help keep me focused on eating right all day because I didn't want to risk eating bad and wasting all the hard work I'd done that morning. I have kind of stacked off the last week, but need to start getting back up because i can see that i'm not as focused on eating the righ things as I was when I got up and exercised!