How early do you get up to exercise?

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  • ms_smartypants
    ms_smartypants Posts: 8,278 Member
    I workout at home ....I get up at 4am M-F to workout before home schooling my daughter
  • mspris2u
    mspris2u Posts: 161 Member
    up at 4:30 - at the gym at 5ish. I do 20-25 minutes of cardio and then take a 45 minute class. I've always been an early riser so don't have a problem getting up early. I've been doing it so long now I can't sleep in anymore.....
  • Will_Run_for_Food
    Will_Run_for_Food Posts: 561 Member
    I wake up at 5 a.m., have a light pre-workout breakfast and relax for a bit (watch tv, read, mediate, light chores) all while I digest and then I make my way to the gym for 7 a.m.

    On days where I want to sleep a little longer, I wake up at 6 a.m. and just have a lighter snack like a banana.
  • successgal1
    successgal1 Posts: 996 Member
    S3r3knitty wrote: »
    Hi guys.
    I'm wondering when you stand up to go to the gym. I restarted going and want to do some classes before work. The way the gym schedule is set up in combination with my trains I would have to stand up at 5am to get to the class at 7am. I am trying to convince myself that I can do that and that i would be good because i dont loose time. When do you stand up? How do you do it?

    I don't. I exercise at home at night and have a big bowl of recovery popcorn with a movie before bed.
  • Spliner1969
    Spliner1969 Posts: 3,233 Member
    I don't go to the gym, I work out at home. But I get up at 4:45am 3 days during the week, drink coffee and/or a pre-workout, and work out starting at 5:30am and go until 7am. Then I take a shower, get ready for work, eat breakfast, and go to work by 8am. I work out on both days of the weekend but I don't bother getting up early those days for obvious reasons. If I know I will have to take a weekend day off, I'll simply work out an extra day during the week but I try not to do that. Weekends I always have more time being off work, so there's no excuse not to work out at some point each day.
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    4:30 am.. It hurts to even type it.
  • Laura040
    Laura040 Posts: 38 Member
    Up at 345am to be downstairs on my treadmill for 4am (I run outside when weather allows it lol). I do a 5k run then a 30 minute circuit. I finished around 515am give or take. I start work at 630am.

    I look forward to Sunday's when it's my rest day lol
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    On Saturdays I'm up at 6:30 because you have to arrive at Cabin Creek by 9 am to get a parking spot on the weekends. If I miss out, I don't ski.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,315 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I'm generally not an AM workout guy save for summer riding when I'm up at 5 and on my bike by 5:15.

    True for me as well. I am not a morning person. If I get up early for anything I am a grumpy bear all day. To save my family and friends having to deal with that, I choose to exercise later in the day.
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    I get up at 4:45 just to get to work. No way I could workout first. But I guess if I absolutely NEEDED to, 5 or 6 is the earliest I'd wake up for it.
  • jessiferrrb
    jessiferrrb Posts: 1,758 Member
    6:00 am - first alarm / snooze
    6:09 am - second alarm / snooze
    6:18 am - third alarm / ponder . . . 50/50 chance of snooze
    6:27 am - ok! i'm up, ugh. or screw it i'm not running today and sleep till 7:00 am
    i *have* to be on the pavement by 7:00 am to do my 2.5 miles (not much, but i want wine later) and make it to work by 9ish, i also sleep in my running clothes on run mornings so that all i have to do is put on shoes and grab the dog.

    strength training i do after work because i like doing it and it's not daunting at the end of the day but if i'm gonna cardio it's gotta be before my brain can protest the idea too much.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    When I was single and slept through the night I was asleep by 10 and up by 5 or 6.

    These days, I go to sleep later, get up later, and exercise at lunch and/or after work.
  • oldsoul918
    oldsoul918 Posts: 110 Member
    I get up at 2:50am and I'm at the gym by 3:10am on weekdays. I don't usually hit the gym on weekends, but if I do, it's around 7am.
  • brynnsmom
    brynnsmom Posts: 945 Member
    My alarm goes off at 3:55; on the treadmill within 10 minutes of getting up. Surprisingly, it's not that bad - although I've been a super early riser for years. I like the fact that I have ZERO distractions from hubby and kiddo plus I can watch the news before I head out.
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    I get up at 06.10 and exercise at home for 25-30 minutes.
    Then I walk to work or the station depending on the day and of course I do the same thing going home.
    Twice a week I go to a gym - pretty much straight from work.
    In between I hike, run and cycle if and when I feel like it.
  • curlsintherack
    curlsintherack Posts: 465 Member
    alarm goes off at 430am either running or lifting. I workout at home. Its been a bit harder now that the temps are below freezing when I leave the house.
  • MsUrsy
    MsUrsy Posts: 8 Member
    I tried last month, got up at 345am to be at the gym by 4am and then out of the gym by 525a, to be at work by 6am. That was short lived. If I have the urge to get up early, 4am is my time and stay home and use my elliptical. The only set back, is that the rest of my house is sleep and I want to crank up the music, urghh.
  • Ocrgrrrl
    Ocrgrrrl Posts: 189 Member
    Up at 3:50 to get started in my garage at 4am. I'm a morning person and have no energy after work.
  • Ms_Consistency
    Ms_Consistency Posts: 46 Member
    I'm a morning person. Typically up at 5:15, workout at 5:30. I workout in my garage so not far to go. I usually do a little walking after dinner too.

    I tried working out at night but had way too much energy. Like, scrub the kitchen floor with a toothbrush, energy! LOL
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    I wake up around 2:00-3:00. I like to get in a few miles with a weight vest before breakfast on non-lifting days. On lifting days, I do the same, but without the vest, and the walks are shorter and breakfast earlier, as I lift before work during the week, and as soon as the gym opens on the weekends.
  • Kristi26
    Kristi26 Posts: 184 Member
    My alarm goes off at 6am. I promptly flip my phone over to activate the snooze and lay there wishing that 5 minutes would last longer. I then mess around on my phone until 610. At that point, I drag my butt out of bed, brush my teeth, have coffee, read my bible app, lay on the couch awhile with my husband before he leaves for work...by 7-715, I wake kids up to get ready for school. Once they are outside for the bus at 805 (while they get ready if I have somewhere to be), I start my workout at home. So from wake up to workout, it takes me about two hours to get started. ;)
  • AigreDoux
    AigreDoux Posts: 594 Member
    Between 4:15 and 5:00 depending on what I have planned for the day. I try to be done by 6 am, which is about when my kids wake up. So if I have a 4 mile run, I can get that done in 40 min, I can wake up at 5. Sometimes a heavy leg day will take me 1.5 hours though, so I'll wake up earlier.

    I then shower, get the kids ready, and leave the house between 7-7:15 am. I try to be in bed at 8:30 or 9.
  • Sharon_C
    Sharon_C Posts: 2,132 Member
    5:30am. I was a confirmed night owl my whole life and have been getting up this early for 2 years. I love it.
  • JenHuedy
    JenHuedy Posts: 611 Member
    When I originally started getting up for early workouts, it was so my brain didn't have all day to come up with an excuse to skip it. Now, I love running and lifting so much, I do early mornings because I never have to miss a workout due to kid's activities or social events or any of the other things that come up in the after work hours.
  • Allterrain_Lady
    Allterrain_Lady Posts: 421 Member
    kenyonhaff wrote: »
    S3r3knitty wrote: »
    I am amazed that some stand up so early to excercise at home. Somehow that sounds even more difficult. I don't know if I would have the willpower for it. The bed would be too alluring :D.
    I'll try to stand up tomorrow at 5am for the first time. Wish me luck. It's just a 30mins workout at the gym but I decided I'll go to the sauna afterwards as a reward.

    But there's no gold medals for people getting up early to exercise. A 30 minute workout done at 5 am or 5 pm is the same amount of calories!

    And some people are early birds, some are night owls. Some people really can't get going at 4 am for a run and that's not anything negative about them. Not everyone can or should be getting up early to exercise. And while it's a praiseworthy thing to work out early, it should not be seen as some sort of character flaw if a person can't or doesn't want to. (Some early bird types get really annoyingly judgemental about this.)

    So true. I'm an early bird (for workouts, I won't be able to do anything else). And I'm actually in owe of people that can work out at nights. I would NEVER go. Life happens all the time!! There would be excuses every night.
  • Allterrain_Lady
    Allterrain_Lady Posts: 421 Member
    I think what matters the most is to find what works for you, at a given moment in your life. We all have to go around a lot of things to try and fit exercise into our lives.
    I usually wake up at 6.20am to be at the gym by 7. I'm in a 'snooze button detox' and don't use my phone as an alarm clock anymore. So up it is. Gradually working on waking up at 6 to have a little bit more time at the gym. Work in progress.
    Gym is 10 minutes walking away and then I go straight to work (35 minutes subway ride).

    This schedule has been put into place because:
    - Almost empty gym in the morning vs crowded place at night.
    - No options to work out at lunch
    - I dread cardio and nead to do it before my brain figures out what's happening
    - No possibilty for me to have an effective weight lifting session on the evening. Too many tough guys in there. I feel self conscious
    - Something always comes up at night. Afterwork drink, at best. Last minute meeting at worst.

    To sum up, TETO!!! (To Each Their Own)
  • c50blvdbabe
    c50blvdbabe Posts: 213 Member
    415am. Unless I'm extremely tired or its extremely cold. Love to get it over with and out of the way. That way no excuses if something comes up at work and I have to stay late.
  • steph_runn44
    steph_runn44 Posts: 28 Member
    I tried working out after work but I found I was sooo tired or I would come up with every excuse to not work out. Now I'm up at 5:20 and on the treadmill in my basement by 5:30. When we would have early morning workouts in college I used to dread them but now I like getting them done and out of the way.
  • AJbandit88
    AJbandit88 Posts: 31 Member
    Having dogs is the main reason I get up so early. Every morning. Lol. But I have to get my workout in, train my dog, and get ready for work. So I get up at 5:45am, feed the dogs, change, go on a run with my malinois, eat breakfast, walk dogs and spend some time training my dog, get ready for work and be there by 8 am. Then at night I get home around 5:30pm, walk dogs, feed dogs, go to my small gym at home and do weights and maybe a little more cardio, work with dogs and eat supper. It's a crazy schedule but there's no time to sit around either so it keeps me moving.

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