Getting up for early morning workouts?

I hate getting up early to workout. I stay up late studying and doing homework and get up at 7 am that gives me 2 hours before the kids get up. But like you that is my only option. I am a stay at home mom with three kids under the age of five and I am a full time college student. I have to work out in the morning before the kids get up or I won't be able to at all. I guess that is what keeps me motivated I know that it is the only time that I have and if I really want to loose weight and be healthy I got to do what I have to do.

I am not a morning person at all. However, I work late, life gets busy, and I know I won't follow through and exercise in the evening. The choice for me is be a stagnant sloth and lay in my warm bed a little longer or get up and just get it over with. I always feel accomplished after I haul myself out of bed. It really comes down to making a choice. If you really want to exercise, you really need to get your butt out of bed when the alarm goes off.

<- Two kids, nature's alarm clock.

I loathe getting up but I think I need to start tossing in some AM workouts to get out of this rut.

Put your alarm on the other side of your room so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. but if your like me i will get up and turn it off and get back in bed lol I have found that setting my alarm half an hour earlier then I want to get up and hitting snooze up to 3 times helps as well. Sounds crazy, but It tricks me into thinking I'm getting more sleep.

I have been getting up at 4:30am during the week to get to the gym for 4:45. I usually start getting ready for work around 6:15 so I need to get up EXTRA early every morning. I put my alarm clock on the other side of the room so I am FORCED to get up. Once I am up, there is no point laying back in bed. I feel great after and I know that I won't follow through with going to the gym if I plan on going at night...something always seems to come up.

I sometimes use this trick when I have to get up early and I really don't want to. Chug a glass of water right before bed. When your alarm goes off in the morning you will really have to pee. Since you already had to get out of bed to use the toilet, you might as well stay up and do your workout. (Though a couple times this has backfired on me, where I woke up in the middle of the night having to pee.)

Same here. by the time I stagger out of bed, find the light, find the bathroom and take care of business - I'm pretty awake. Also what helps me is that the morning excersise I do is I religiously walk my dog for about 45 minutes every morning... He's so excited when he sees me hit the bathroom - cuz he know's that it means we are going out for our walk. It helps that he's so into it; cuz some mornings it's the guilt of not doing it and dissapointing him that push me out the front door.

I'm a sucker for a cute face.


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I wear my workout clothes to bed.

Set your phone alarm to a ringtone you ABSOLUTELY HATE and then put it across the room. You'll jump out of bed to shut that thing up.

And then you're up!

first off, after reading a few of these posts from parents: i don't know how you do it, nevermind find the time to fit in exercise, but mad props to you all.

For me, my natural tendency is to lie in bed till the latest possible moment and race to work on my bike- so i build at least some exercise into my day, though, not much. I really need to convince myself to get up early for a jog, swim, or gym session. But like the chap said above, it really does come down to making that firm decision: no matter what i'm getting up and getting my butt there.

Does anyone else have an energy crash though at about 1pm after a morning work out? Any tips on preventing it? Since i work out and go straight from work-out to office, i dont have access to smoothies that i'd ideally like to boost myself up with. Any tips?

One solution I thought of is, using a hand blender at work to make smoothies- is anyone doing this?

That's actually an awesome idea! lol I, of course will have to get my clothes ready the night before and keep them in the bathroom to refrain from getting back in my room and "accidentally" lay down and fall asleep again :P

Immediately turn on music. It's the only way I ever have the drive to to ANYTHING before 6am. Too short usually wakes me up in a good mood. No way I could crawl back in bed after singing along to *kitten* betty.

I loathe getting up but I think I need to start tossing in some AM workouts to get out of this rut.

Same thing for me too.

Does it help knowing that once you get up and do it it's done for the day? No dreading an afternoon or evening workout? For me it's more about having the energy to get in a good workout so early in the morning.

I have sleep issues. Try putting a dim lamp, on the opposite side of the room, on one of those cheap timers that you can get from the discount store. Set it to come on a half hour before your alarm clock goes off. This will help to gently pull you out sleep, instead ripping you out of REM sleep, like an alarm clock may do. Remember, you are just trying to simulate dawn, so use a dim light. It works for me. Good luck.