Early morning workouts

More power to you if you can do this, I hear that alarm and my brain goes "or you could sleep another hour and a half" and that's the end of it usually.

I'm getting myself into the schedule of waking up at 5am, working out for an hour, then getting ready for work. The times that I go to bed every night vary. Lately it's been about 11/11:30pm.

Wake up at 3:30, go to bed at 9:00. It's hard sometimes but a great way to start the day. (I only do this because I start work at 6).

I actually do a mix of both ... exercise classes two nights a week, personal trainer at 5:30am, and rowing (depending on the day) morning or night.

I like working out in the morning because then I'm DONE by the time I go to work and I have the nights to myself. I hate it because I am so not a morning person and it's a struggle to get there.

I like the nights because by the time I get home from the gym (usually 8:30pm) I'm pooped and ready for bed (between 9pm-10pm), and not likely to eat anything else. (lol)

Feel free to friend me and we can encourage each other with the morning workouts!

Squeaky

I get up at 4:30am (it used to be 5) and I'm out the door running by 5am. I return and either do ST or hit the shower if it was a longer run.

I have to be out the door by 7:30 with DS to take him to school and get myself to work. It's the only time of the day I can get a WO in.

I'm in bed usually between 9-10pm

Wake up at 3:30, go to bed at 9:00. It's hard sometimes but a great way to start the day. (I only do this because I start work at 6).

OMG, starting work at 6 would probably kill me (and people call me a morning person... LOL)
More power to you!

it may not be quite as early as you're trying to do....but I get up at 6 and go to bed usually around 10:30. It was really difficult for me to get on that schedule (night owl) but the first few nights I took melatonin and now it has become an easy routine! I agree that the shred videos come in handy for those mornings you feel a little rushed to get a workout in. I usually pair the video with a jog around the neighborhood most mornings.

Bed at 10, wake up at 5, coffee and hit the gym.

I get up with the kids (they usually wake at7ish) give them breakfast then put them infront of the TV whilst I do my workout (its is the only time of day the triplets are allowed to watch TV so it means they sit glued for 30-40 minutes. I also work out in the evenings. The trips go to bed around 7pm ans Sophie is allowed to read in Mummy's bed whilst I do my exercises the I read to her and she goes to bed. Afetr a shower and feeding myself and husband and any chores that got skipped during the day I'm usually in bed around 10pm but I read until about 11pm

Who all gets up early to workout? What time do you workout and what time do you go to bed at night?

Im wanting to start working out in the mornings. I would have to wake up at 5, meaning I would have to go to bed pretty early....but I would like to try it!

This me right here. I used to go to a bootcamp class after work at 6PM. But since I live in San Diego traffic would often make it miserable to get there. So I switched my work schedule to allow me to go to the 6AM class instead.

I never considered myself a "morning" person and I've had to train myself to get to bed early enough to wake up on time and have the energy to work out. I have an alarm set to go off at 10PM at night to remind me to get ready for bed. Best case scenario it gets me in bed by 10:30, worse case by 11:30. If I can get to bed by 10:30 I'm usually in good shape by the morning, feeling rested enough and ready to work out. But it did take about a week to adjust. When I get to bed at 11:30 I'm tired but still alert in the AM.

Its still a work in progress for me, I've noticed that I'm averaging about 6 hours, but I often sleep only 5 and when I do I feel terrible. I'm trying to work my way up to 6.5 or 7 hrs of sleep, to get rid of the grey circles under my eyes. Also my bc class is only 3x a week so on non-bootcamp days I still go to sleep around 10:30 - 11:30 but I sleep in to 6 AM.

Hi.. I get up three times a week to take a 5:30 spin class. It's tiring to get up, but once you are up and out the house. You feel great.

I work out in the a.m, Me and my fiancee get up about 5:15 and get to the gym by 5:30, do 45 mins of cardio and then 15mins of weights. We used to go after work but what started to happen was that we would get home from work and just sit there and then not go b/c we were drained from our day at work. So now we go to bed anywhere between 9:30-10pm. I can tell you I can feel the differance in my day! I'm a much happier person during the day (and I really don't like my job too much) and when i get home at 6 we make dinner and then relax and enjoy our evening. The other thing that has been great is SLEEP!!! When I went at night I would be so pumped up from my workout that I couldn't sleep and then didn't want to go to work b/c I was so sleepy from the night before. So I recommend it and it has inproved my quality of health and life!! Try it for a week, and see how it feels for you!

Thanks for all the replies! How about breakfast...do y'all eat first or after?

Coffee ALWAYS (I set the pot up the night before so I just have to push the button and start it when I wake and drink it on the drive to the gym), and some days I eat like half of a protein bar or something. Personally, I don't want a full stomach, but sometimes I do feel like I need the extra energy. Tried a banana one day and that gave me awful heartburn and ruined my workout!

Its probably more important to eat something afterward for muscle repair and to restore everything you've just lost from your body, especially if you're doing any high-intensity cardio.

Thanks for all the replies! How about breakfast...do y'all eat first or after?

I HAVE to eat something first or I will get sick. I grab an apple or some other kind of fruit (cup of grapes or strawberries) eat that, then workout, get ready, catch the train to work at 7:30am and eat my "real" breakfast on the train.