Getting your *kitten* out of bed in the morning

No idea. I have the same issue. I've even tried going to bed earlier but am still so very very tired in the morning. I need something to physically drag me out of bed in the morning and toss me in the shower and then maybe that would work! LOL!

I'm kind of a morning person to begin with but it takes time to build a routine. I pack a gym bag the night before so everything is ready and use my phone as an alarm in a place where I have to get up to turn it off. I think a lot if just mental commitment. Sometimes I decide I need the rest and go back to bed. Most of the time, if I get up and am super tired I just feel guilty when I get back in bed and get back up anyway. I try to figure out if i'm physically exhausted from working out or just tired.

I have to get up right when my alarm goes off or I won't. I've been getting up at 5:30 for a couple years now. Once you get in the habit, it's really not so bad. I go to bed around 9:30-10:00.

*kitten*.

I don't eat after 5pm, so I'm hungry in the morning.

One alarm. No back-up. No second alarm. No snooze. I get up and I go. If I don't, I risk being late to work because there is no other alarm that's going to go off. Everything is ready to go the night before and I'm out the door in about 10 minutes usually. I go to bed at 8pm because the alarm goes off at 2:50am.

Was it hard at first? Yes, very. But it gets easier. And since morning is the only time that works for me I make it happen. I've been hitting the gym at that hour for a couple years now (before that it was 3:40am for a couple years) and now I wake up before my alarm even goes off a lot of times just because I'm used to it.

It's not easy, but it gets easier with time. You just have to choose...you either want it or you don't.

Put the alarm across the room so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. It will get easier.

I am not a morning person. I have been told that you get acclimated to it, but when I have had jobs that required me to get up really early, I never got used to it no matter how much sleep I get. I work out in the evenings because that is when I have the most energy, I get a better workout. But if you can't do that, then you do what you gotta do .

In all seriousness, if I was told I had won $10 million but had to pick it up at 6AM, I would NOT wake up excited, and I would drag my butt in there like I was going to the dentist. I just don't work that way. I think sunsets are prettier than sunrises too

Same stuff you do whenever you're setting up a new habit. Make it as easy for yourself to do it as possible and hard not to.

When I was going in the morning, I'd set my alarm and have my running gear ready to go. If you can't get out of bed, set the alarm in another room, or get your SO to kick you out of bed if you don't get up, or make yourself stay up after all of the stuff you have to do in the evenings to get a workout in anyway.

That last one will usually do it, but you have to commit and DO IT ... suddenly getting up early won't seem nearly so bad.

Go to bed earlier. That was the only thing that allowed me to get up early enough to work out in the mornings before work. When 8pm rolls around I get ready for bed. By 9pm I am in bed. I may watch a TV show or something but I am usually asleep before 10pm. I then get up at 5am or 5:30am, drink coffee or a pre-workout and jump on my M5 by 6am sharp. I work out until 7 then get ready for work by 8. It's hectic but if I don't get to bed early enough it simply doesn't happen. I have allergies so I tend to use Benadryl daily anyway, but one or two at 9pm usually makes it that much easier to go to sleep by 10. If you can't make yourself go to bed early enough it simply isn't going to happen, or you're going to deprive yourself of sleep doing it and that will hurt your progress as far as fitness/endurance anyway. Motivate yourself to go to bed early, over a period of a few weeks it'll help you get enough sleep to get up early enough. Use a non-addictive sleep aid if you have to, just don't do it long term. There are also natural options for that.

If you have family or kids that keep you from going to bed earlier then discuss it with them and see if they can change the way they do things to help you accomplish the goal. My wife already got up early anyway so now I simply get up around the same time she does anyway. Weekends is a different story. I sleep in for an extra couple of hours on purpose. It gives me extra rest and I work out extra hard on the weekends anyway. I take my rest days on Mondays because we all know Monday's suck, and it might as well be a rest day. ;P

This always helps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuPLxQD4akQ

I honestly think some people are just "morning people". It is naturally easier for them. I get up at 5:00 AM 3 times a week no problem. But I also never stay up past 10:00 PM. I think getting on a regular sleep pattern helps.

I am not a morning person, at all, but I actually didn't mind waking up at 5:30 to go to the gym. The first few days were tough, I almost had my husband call to wake me up at first but I was determined, and it really wasn't that bad! I think you need to be completely dedicated to it, and rip off the band-aid. I only stopped because I had to start being to work earlier and got out of my routine.

There was a period of 6 months where I had to train at 5 am 2 days a week due to life circumstances. I am incredibly focused and dedicated, but I still had a 15 minute internal debate every. single. time. between snoozes in order to get there. My only solution was to set my alarm early enough to have the debate. I go to bed early, have decent nutrition blah blah blah. It's just hard for some of us, but um character building or something. Good luck!

Over the last 5 years, I've typically trained 5 or 6 days per week in the mornings. I pack my gym bag and pick my out work clothes the night before to save time, but the big key for me is getting to bed early enough. The payoff is that I leave the gym or pool feeling great after my workout.