Does anyone workout in the MORNING????

I workout in the morning, but nothing as early as a lot of people here. my routine is #1 coffee #2 kids breakfast and off to school #3 exercise which usually ends up happening around 8:30-9:00 am.

Just starting my summer routine this week. I'm up at around 5:30/5:45 year around but only do AM workouts in the summer to beat the heat. I don't do any 'o-dark 30 stuff though. I'm usually on my bike no later than 6 AM and do about 12 miles then get home and enjoy a cup or two of coffee on the patio then shower and whatnot and on the road by 7:30 to work.

I rather enjoy the crispness of a new morning and watching the sunrise from my saddle and it's a nice way to start the day. I don't do it in the winter because it's too cold and dark and I end up using my indoor trainer more in the winter but I can't really use it in the AM because it'll wake the kids and then my wife will kill me.

I am up at 4:45 normally to get ready for work. I am going to try 4:00 and get a workout in first. Hopefully I can make it until 10 before I crash.

I work graveyard shift so I work out in the morning. Get home, work out about 8:30am then wind down and go to sleep. When I join a gym again it will be the same. My new gym I'm scoping out is walking distance from me. So the timing will be the same. My last gym was women's only and had 24 hour access with your membership. Which was great because on my days off I tend to still be up all night, so I could go at 2am and have the whole place to myself. Empty gym = HEAVEN

Mahdi22 wrote: »

I set up 3 alarms, get everything ready and I still can't wake up lol. I I wake up, then go back to sleep. I don't know how to break that habit. I almost missed an exam doing that

Are you getting enough sleep?

I 'm usually up at 5:AM, drink some coffee & then head out for a run or a swim.

It's quite possible that you're just not a morning person.

When I first started working out in 2013 I would always work out in the mornings - I lived with my partner and we didn't have any children so it was so easy to just pack a bag, go to bed early and wake up before he was up for work. Then we'd have the night to spend together instead of breaking it up with the gym. However, we split up and then I was on my own, which at the time was totally fine because I could still have the life I wanted and it wasn't an issue with anyone if I went to bed at 8:30 and was up at 4:30.

Fast forward to 2016 and I bought my own house (instead of renting an apartment) and within 3 months I adopted a sweetheart of a rescue dog. Since I am single I could no longer just pack a bag, go to the gym, shower there and head to work as it meant she would be by herself for 10+ hours a day - completely not fair to her. So then I started working out later at night because I'd go home, take her for a walk or to the park, eat some dinner and have to wait for it to digest as I can't work out on a full stomach - or even a half full stomach lol.

But, in late 2016 I switched jobs and I now have a job where I work from home 3 - 4 days a week, and the other two days (pending meetings) my schedule is flexible . . . some weeks I am at home every day ha ha. So now that I can get up, go to the gym and then come home, shower and I don't have to leave my house for work most days I find I am back to morning workouts . . . it's just better for me. However, when I switched back it was BRUTAL waking up early again - it took everything I had to just get out of bed some mornings lol. I prefer mornings because then I have the nights to do whatever . . . dog park, walks, book clubs (yeh, I'm kinda nerdy lol) and everything else.

Looking at all of the responses here: am I the only one who wakes up without an alarm? I don't even have a clock in my bedroom anymore...or lights...or anything other than a bed, dresser and clothes, and the blackout blinds. That last one makes it much easier to go to sleep at 6:30 pm in the summer.

Gallowmere1984 wrote: »

It varies a lot, as I do field work, and times can shift depending upon how far from home I am, ship times, etc. However, for the last week it's been the following:

1:30-2:30: wake up, pee, weigh in and take orthostatic readings for TRAC, start food prep for the day.
3:30-3:45: food prep done.
3:50: take subjective measurements for TRAC.
4:00: first round of stims.
4:15: pre-lift food.
4:45: pre-workout.
5:20: leave for gym.
5:30: start warm-up sets.
6:30-7:00: post-lift food.
7:05-7:30: leave for work.
8:00: second bout of post lift food.
8:15-8:30: arrive at work.

Are you for real????

Gallowmere1984 wrote: »

Looking at all of the responses here: am I the only one who wakes up without an alarm? I don't even have a clock in my bedroom anymore...or lights...or anything other than a bed, dresser and clothes, and the blackout blinds. That last one makes it much easier to go to sleep at 6:30 pm in the summer.

I don't use an alarm.

I don't get it. You need to wake up 7 hrs before work? What time do you get home and go to bed?

I work out in the morning for a couple of reason 1. It's done and over with. 2. I like working out on an empty stomach. Tips on how to be motivated to do it...well DH and I are "competing" right now so I want to make sure I work out just as much as him. I'm very competitive and don't want to lose. lol. Plus I just make myself get up and do it.

I prefer to work out in the morning because I feel it sets me up for the day ahead.

if i didnt work out in the morning, i wouldnt work out at all.

my gym is on my way to work.

I work with my body's rhythms, not against them. I am a morning person, so that's when I run. I am a slug by 8:30 at night.