Morning Gym Tips for a Total Sleepyhead

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  • WickAndArtoo
    WickAndArtoo Posts: 773 Member
    amy4selflove wrote: »
    SemperAnticus1643 wrote: »
    Get a significant other that gets up for work at 5:00 AM. My husband and my son, who sleeps in our room, both wake up around 5:00 AM. So I'm up with them. I take a pre-workout before I head to our garage to workout. By the time I'm done with my workout, my son has put himself back to sleep in his bouncer, while he's in the garage with me, and I'm able to get my two older children up and get myself ready for work. :)

    My husband gets up for work at 4:15, I sleep right through it!! ;)

    Hhaha @amy4selflove that makes two of us!!!
  • 1fit_mamma
    1fit_mamma Posts: 101 Member
    edited January 2017
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    1fit_mamma wrote: »
    6. In bed before 10am, even if you read or whatever

    That makes for a pretty short day :)

    Haha @Tacklewasher, so I can do mornings but need to work on proofreading!

  • 1fit_mamma
    1fit_mamma Posts: 101 Member
    @cvstokke how are the mornings going!? Any luck? Or have have you found another routine?
  • RunsOnPlants98
    RunsOnPlants98 Posts: 9 Member
    Plan something fun to do before or after that you don't get to do in the evenings. Also I like planning a breakfast that I look forward to but takes some level of time and effort so then I have to get up.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    amy4selflove wrote: »
    SemperAnticus1643 wrote: »
    Get a significant other that gets up for work at 5:00 AM. My husband and my son, who sleeps in our room, both wake up around 5:00 AM. So I'm up with them. I take a pre-workout before I head to our garage to workout. By the time I'm done with my workout, my son has put himself back to sleep in his bouncer, while he's in the garage with me, and I'm able to get my two older children up and get myself ready for work. :)

    My husband gets up for work at 4:15, I sleep right through it!! ;)

    Never worked for me. I had to wake up too to make sure he actually got out of bed.

    But when I had to get up at 5am for work, I was in bed by 9pm. I need my sleep.
  • mis1022
    mis1022 Posts: 109 Member
    Sleep is important tooo you need at least 8 hours so make sure you go to sleep early.
  • unrelentingminx
    unrelentingminx Posts: 231 Member
    Can you compromise and get to the gym over lunch?
  • WickAndArtoo
    WickAndArtoo Posts: 773 Member
    Just curious how your morning workouts are going? Did anything end up working for you?
  • WendyLeigh1119
    WendyLeigh1119 Posts: 495 Member
    This is SO me. Even after 20 years of jobs starting at 5am and child rearing....I'm a night person. I stay up late and crave that night time alone and awake. My energy hits a high around 9pm and again after 2am. I'm also a lifetime insomniac (I average less than 4 hours per night and feel mostly good)

    I was doing ALL of my workouts from 4pm to 8pm and then showering and not getting home until 9pm. My whole family was eating dinner at 10pm and I decided it was ridiculous. Now I get up *gag* at 7am, eat breakfast *double gag*, and have most of my workouts and classes done by 12 or 1pm.

    I promised myself that if I could do mornings, I'd reward myself by sitting in the sun reading, relaxing around a pool, or shopping for fun stuff-only with that extra afternoon time. And that's what I've been doing for about 30 days now (the switch). It's hard to gather the energy for the workouts themselves, but in some ways it probably makes them more challenging because my body is like "wait....NOOOO!"

    I hate to admit it...but when some a-hole (like the mailman) sees me relaxing outside in a bikini or at the pool by 1pm and says "Living the life, huh?" It's satisfying to say "Yeah, I can use it after finishing my 3 hours at the gym!" And then he slinks away not quite so presumptuous as he came in. And I feel rather satisfied.

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