Working out in the morning?

When it comes to working out in the morning, it's great if you can do it. But if you need the extra hour of sleep, that tends to be more important.

The reason why I workout in the morning is because of my thyroid medication. I have to wait an hour between taking that and eating breakfast, so I workout to kill the time. If I didn't need to do that, I probably wouldn't be doing AM workouts!

I think it totally depends on the person and your typical schedule. While it would be really convenient for me to work out in the morning so I could come home straight after work, I feel the same way, like I'm just dragging myself. I noticed that I can't run as fast and everything is just more difficult. It's strange because two years ago doing a spin class early in the morning before school was my perfect time to workout lol!

My favourite time to go for a run is around 5:00AM but for strength workouts the evening suits me better. If I miss a morning run I'm ok with running as soon as I get home from work or around 9:00PM (coincides with my son's soccer practice schedule) I had a few weekend runs in the mid afternoon and just wasn't feeling the love.


Everybody's internal clock is different.

As you get older things change... now if I want to or not I'm up by 8:00 a.m. I just can't sleep like I did. In college I could party all night, sleep until 2:00 pm (or whenever the husker game was on) roll out of bed and hit it again like it was nothing. I miss that...

Anyway, with life (kid, work, grad school) if I want to even think about getting a work out in... 5:30 a.m. every day. Bed time is around 11:00 p.m. some nights.

Odd enough, now that I am a SAHWM, I find I have a really hard time fitting in my workout if I don't get it out of the way first thing in the morning. Between the running of kids to events, volunteering, cooking, etc. my time just runs out and fast. When I worked FT I was much more aware of my time and found myself way more in control. Apparently I must be too relaxed now, lol!

My husband is out the door by 5:20 a.m. Mon-Fri so I am up at 4:45 a.m. with him, have my MUST HAVE cup of coffee and when he heads out the door to the office, I head to our home gym. I can have my hour workout done and be showered before getting the kids up for school. My days just flow so much better if I don't have to worry about findng that hour later in my day. That, and it's also nice to be tired and ready for bed at the same time as my husband!

Mornings work best for me. I go to a boxing class M-W-F's at 6:30am. I find that by having a class to attend, I'll get myself up and go to the gym, whereas the days I don't have class I'm less enthusiastic about getting up and exercising. I think its the commitment to the class that gets me up and going. The other days of the week I exercise, but much less strenuously and often times in the evenings.

One outstanding benefit of a morning workout is getting your mind clear, your metabolism running and your body ready for the rest of the day.

Cheers!

I work out at least 4 mornings during the week at 4:45 a.m. I find it gets me moving and makes me feel better all day long (and I love the extra calories that I earn). Of course, by 9:00 p.m. I am out like a light! But I am an empty nester, so I don't have kids to consider at this point. Before leaving for work at 7:00 a.m. I drink at least 2 glasses of water and eat breakfast. I need routine, so setting that alarm for 4:30 and hopping out of bed works for me!

I have shifted to getting up at 5:15 to get my workout done. If I don't do it early, it doesn't get done. Have to be up before the rest of the household!

I can only handle yoga in the morning. Anything else I'm just not awake enough for. That might be because I have to start at 5am if I want to get to work on time, but either way I do yoga in the morning and my harder workout around 6pm. Though, on the few occasions that I did workout in the morning, I practically floated around for the rest of the day, high on the realization that the evening was open and guilt-free.

im not a big fan of working out in the morning - i do walk first thing to get my daughter to school. then i come home and have breakfast and do house work and play with kidlet #2 until i walk to put up kidlet #1. sometimes if i miss a workout at night for whatever reason, ill squeeze it in sometime after breakfast, but its so much easier for me to workout after the kids go to sleep at night

Why not both? I try to do some cardio in the morning and then again in the night if there is time. In the morning, I don't aim for intensity, just 30 minutes of doing something on the elliptical or walking. In the afternoon, I aim for intensity. I can feel a huge difference in my metabolism throughout the day when I start with cardio.

I prefer to work out in the morning but am a morning person. I have a stationery bike that I have in front of the tv in the family room. I have my morning coffee and then put on my ipod, ear buds and pedal for as long as my schedule allows (at least 45 minutes). That usually gets me motivated for the rest of the day. A few times, I went to workout in a gym with my daughter in the evenings but it didn't hold the same appeal for me. You'll find a routine that works best for you.

It's a lot harder to workout in the morning because you are dehydrated and have no fuel. That said, it's also the most beneficial time to work out as you do go right into your fat for fuel! I strength train in the morning because cardio usually makes me ill before eating (but on occasion I get it in...) I also try to get a good cardio workout in in the evening to round out my day.