5am Workouts?

The only way is to just do it. You will get use it. If you're not a morning person, you might not be happy for the first week or so, but youl will get use to it. Good luck! Morning workouts are the best!

I dont get up quite that early, but I get up at 5:30. When my alarm goes off, I seriously hate it. But after a minute of thinking how bad I will feel, I am out of bed.

I hate the thought of missing my workout. I feel like crap all day if I do. I also know that if I dont do it, I wont get a chance later in the day. I look at it as my only alone time.

In the beginnning, I thought about moving my alarm clock away from my bed so that I would have to get up, but it just became routine.

I was NEVER a morning person and thought it was impossible to work out before work. That all changed about two years ago when I took an early morning (5:30 am) boot camp kind of class. I now LOVE it and never go at night. My husband gets up really early to go to work (3:45) so I'm usually heading to the gym at about 4:15. Since I don't have to be to work until 8:30, I usually work out for an hour or so and head home to read, nap, whatever until about 7 when I have to start getting ready.

It sounds so counterproductive, I know: Get up way early and then have to go to work all day. However, the days I get up and go to the gym are the days I have so much energy. It feels so great. The first couple weeks are tough, but stick with it. It is so worth it in the long run.

I get up early anyway, 4:00, so I just moved my alarm back 10 minutes to give me a quick non-cardio workout in the am. I usually run in the afternoon during the week but I am sure that if I wanted I could get up at 3:30 to workout in the am for a longer time.

I'm a morning person mostly, I find if I'm going to work out in the morning I have to set my mind to it the evening before, and set my alarm, but when I wake up it's a case of not thinking about getting up it's JUST get up and do it!

I used to do evening workouts but sometimes I was just too tired after work, so I switched to morning workouts which I do struggle to get up to sometimes! Especially towards the end of the week!

I used to get up that early and am working on it again, BUT I haven't been able to make it into my bed until almost 1am each night.

Kinda kills me when a 5am alarm goes off.

I will be back there soon though

-Rain

Three Ideas I have done.

Get a dog (I have 3) , train it to have to go potty at 430am it will learn to wake you up for you and then you can be ready to workout by 5am.

Have a trusted neighbor ring your doorbell who leaves for work at that time, like 10-20 times to make sure you get out of bed.
(tried having them just ring my cell but I would have it muted before bed and it didnt work lol)

Put your alarm on the far side of your bedroom so you cant hit snooze and physically have to get out of bed to shut it off.

I'm up at 5am 2-3 times a week already to make a solid breakfast before heading out. Usually warmed up and on the basketball court from 6:30am. Would be on court earlier but the gym is 30 minutes away and doesn't open til 6:30am anyway :P

Going to be 5am wake ups all week to add in 3 days of strength training starting soon though, I think I'm looking forward to it xD

I have never been a morning person. I wake up at 5 so I can be at my studio by 6:00am. The first week was ROUGH but now I am used to it.

1) Don't eat too late
2) If you need a gentle wake-up, set the snooze timer. (I just get out of bed, but I can't fall asleep once the alarm is off.)
3) Be sure to stretch and warm up before doing anything crazy

You can do it! I love working out in the morning because it takes all the pressure of getting to the gym after work out of my day and I know when I get to the office I've already accomplished something.

I get up at 4:45. I set my cell phone alarm and turn it up loud. Then I get out my workout clothes and put them in a pile far away from my bed. Then I bury my cell phone in the middle of them. When my alarm goes off, I have to get out of bed to shut it up and by then I've got my clothes in my arms so might as well put them on and get on with my workout!

Becca... that is HYSTERICAL! Love it.

I use to hate it but it makes you feel so much better and it gives you something less to worry about later in the day.

I get up at 4:30 to work out M-F. It helps to have everything ready the night before. I set the coffee to go off, lay out all of my workout stuff including socks and shoes, and I'm ready to go. I meet 2 other ladies from work to lift M,W,F at the gym at our work so I have to have all of my work clothes/shower stuff, etc. all packed too. I love it! I love having my workout out of the way and I can just do whatever the rest of the day. I'm usually asleep by 9 though.

Treat it like it is an appointment that you absolutely can not miss. That is what I have been doing the past 5 weeks and it has worked so well! I have made it every day

I get up at 530 5 days a week. On Saturday I sleep as late as I want and then workout...everyone in the house knows to leave me alone until I am done working out!

I started out by just getting up about 20-30 minutes earlier for a few weeks...then I got up 45 min earlier..then I finally hit the hour earlier and my goal time of 530. It took me about a month to work up to getting up earlier. It's still not really easy to just jump out of bed every day but it is easier and a habit now.
After about 2 months of getting up early you will notice that it is much easier.