calling all morning exercisers!!

I used to be able to get up at 6am every day to go running and I can no longer manage it. Don't know if you have an iphone but there's an app called Sleep Cycle and it's very clever. The alarm on your phone wakes you up when it determines you are at your lightest sleep state - thereby waking you at a time when you should find it easy to get up. I've used it twice and it has actually worked and got me up earlier. But I haven't managed a morning run yet as weather been a bit naff.

getting up early to exercise used to be rough, but now i love it. it's so nice to get it out of the way. There are still certainly morning when I get out of bed and I just don't feel like doing it, but once I actually get started I'm fine. always happy it's out of the way first thing and don't have to worry about motivating myself to do it later

I used to be able to get up at 6am every day to go running and I can no longer manage it. Don't know if you have an iphone but there's an app called Sleep Cycle and it's very clever. The alarm on your phone wakes you up when it determines you are at your lightest sleep state - thereby waking you at a time when you should find it easy to get up. I've used it twice and it has actually worked and got me up earlier. But I haven't managed a morning run yet as weather been a bit naff.

This sounds awesome! Do you know if there is a similar app for iPad?

I get up at 6, eat straight away and then start working out about 6:30 - 6:45, and I do about an hour, but I only live 15 minutes away from work and I don't have kids (yet, my wife keeps threatening me with them :laugh: ). I get to bed about 10pm, asleep by half past most evenings. At the weekend, I get up at 8 so I get a bit of a lay in.

I also have to echo Molly182's words, sometimes I feel groggy when I wake up, but I just make sure I get up and within 10 minutes I am fine, and I love knowing I don't have to do it later. I tried it in the evenings but it was just too much hard work for me.

I'll have to point my wife to this thread, she only works four days a week but does ten hour days, so having to be at work by 7:20am makes it a bit hard for he to do it in the mornings. This thread might give her the push she wants!

I don't eat or drink (other than water) anything before as it would just sit heavy in my stomach no matter what it was. I tried it once and I get a stitch if I've had anything to eat. I find so long as I've had a good meal the night before, I'm fine.

Hi,
I’ve got a 2 year old, a 3 year old and an 11 year old. I found it almost impossible to kick myself out of bed. I’ve literally just started exercising again (yesterday). I went to hot Yoga class at 6:30 am. Tired not tired, you literally have to have your eye on the prize. Weight loss, health and being there for your kids. Its really hard at first, you aren’t alone. Push through, you simply need to get into a rhythm, not easy to find at first but once you do everything will go so ridiculously smooth.
Have a beautiful day,
Debora

I started getting up at 5AM several years ago when my kids were small. (They are now both grown.) It was a time I knew would not be taken by anything else. There really is no secret except you just get up. I do go to bed much earlier than a lot of people but I'm willing to do that in order to feel so good with the routine. If you can find a friend who will meet you, that also makes a big difference. I walked outside with a woman friend for 2 years before we took our exercise to a gym. I could not leave her out in the dark by herself so had to show up. BTW, she and I are still meeting - 14 years later.

My family is on such a schedule that I get to bed no later than 10pm, and I am usually up and getting in a workout by 530am. I am the mother of 3 and I find that if I don't get it in before they are up for school I go crazy. It helps me clear my head and take in the silence. I know it seems hard, but when I get up I get my gear on, drink some water with lemon in it, and get a little protein snack before hand. It does get easier.

i wake up at 5:30 and workout. I love doing it this way because I don't want to have it lagging and thinking all day about having to go home and do it. I find I'm more ikely to have excuses at 6pm than at 5:30am. I mean come on, I just opened my eyes, there are no pressing things happening and 5:30 nor has my boss gotten a chance to stress me out hahaha. On weekends whenever it is that I wake up I do it as well

I used to be able to exercise in the morning too - in fact when my daughter was 3 months old and I returned to work that was the only time I could *really* get in a good workout. But now (a year plus later) I find it super hard to get up in the morning just to go to work, let alone work out. I currently work out two nights a week (DD stays at Grandma's house those nights and hubby has classes) and one if not both weekend days during her nap. I need to start morning workouts though because next month my husband starts studying hard for the bar exam, which means I will be the only parent on call for DD after daycare/work each day!