morning exercisers

I don't exercise in the morning but I read yesterday that one should get at least 7 hours of sleep the night before a morning workout. If one doesn't, he/she probably won't lose very much since their body is tired.

I consider myself a morning exerciser, but as a slow-to-action, straight out of highschool student, I tend start my work out at about 10-11, and it'll go on till around lunch time.. 12-1/2

Although today as a first I did a 80min run outside at 7:30 in the morning... Figured I'd stop fighting my early rising habit.

i used to get 8hrs sleep--before the puppy

now it's more like 6 hours of sleep.
up about 5am to take the dog for 35min walk.
often will do dvd upon return.

then 20-25min walk in evening after 8:30 with dog.

if i don't do the AM exercise, i am that much less likely to do it at all.
another option tho is after kids go to school, little one and i go to Y for workout then. but that really kills the whole morning.
before the puppy, i would often exercise at naptime and even at 4 before dinner prep, w/home dvd's.

now...i'm so worn out. i usually lie down during naptime. and altogether my workouts are shorter and arguably less effective.
that consistent lack of sleep is def having a negative impact on me.

i know others can handle it, but i'm not that person. kwim?

hth--your kids are adorable!

PS- I think I get it now. Someday I will have to choose between sleep and kids... That's going to be a close call

Well you're supposed to try for at least 7 hours of sleep regardless of when your work out is or how many you're doing. that's kind of the shorts amount of time to let the muscle fibers rebuild. I typically shoot for between 7 and 7 1/2 hours worth of sleep, anything more and I feel I like I wasted the day and anything less leaves me feeling almost too wiped to exercise, almost.

I am a morning person so it works out well for me to work out first thing in the morning.

I decided to delegate the kids bedtime routine to my husband. I really communicated the importance of him being involved with them more on the daily basis since he works very long hours, it's pretty much the only time he gets with them during the week.

So I go straight to bed by 9p and get up at 5:30a, then I am out the door on my bike by 5:45a, I usually do 10 miles in 50 minutes and get home in time to stretch for about 20 minutes before I have to wake up the 10 yr old at 7a. The 16yr old is usually in the shower when I get home. Then I make them breakfast, get them off to school, I have breakfast by myself.

There are other benefits to working out in the morning - your metabolism is raised for the day, it's done and you don't have to worry about doing it later.

Demetria

On the days I don't have my girls at home, I exercise around 10.
The other days, I have a Mom & Tot's swim class at 9:30, then I'll exercise when the youngest takes her nap (around 11:30)

I go to bed at 10, but it takes me about 45 minutes to an 1h10m to fall asleep.
I'm up every night because my 3 year old STILL doesn't sleep her nights:explode:
I wake up at 6:30, because my youngest always wakes up at that time.

What time do you get up to exercise? How much sleep do you get?

all throughout college we had to be up at 5am for workouts, i usually got about 7-8h, less than that I'm no good, kind of like right now

I used to be a die-hard evening workout person, but have recently switched to mornings. My job allows me 3 hours during the week to work out, thanks to the Federal Military Technician Program.
I'm up at 5:30am at work by 6:30am. As far as sleep goes, I usually stay up till about 11pm, midnight at the latest. So I get on the average 5-6 hours of sleep during the week. I'll sleep in an extra hour or two on the weekend. No more than 7-8 hours of sleep.

I typically hit the gym Mon & Weds, thurs is my run day. Sometimes I switch off my run day with Mondays. Just depends how my recovery period. Friday is my day off, so I usually go to the gym in the afternoon. Weekends, just whenever I can slip it in. Typically the mornings, cause its just easier and cooler.