Any tricks for getting butt out of bed at 5:00 AM ?

Use a smart phone alarm clock.. most of them have an option to require you to solve a math problem in order to 'snooze' it.. I use to hit the snooze button 10-15 times in the morning.. Now I get up on the first alarm. Granted doing math problems early in the morning is not fun.. but you can set the difficulty and set the number of problems you have to solve.

I set 2 alarms -one across the room. When I wake up I tell myself that it will suck to get up now and it will still suck to get up later. You will never regret a workout.

Ok... this may not work for everyone but it does for me.

Lately I have been loving a grilled chicken breast on my salad at lunch. Well... when my alarm goes off at 4:15 and I feel like just sleeping in I think about how I have to get up and defrost and cook the chicken. Well... what do I do during the defrost time? Get my workout in! It's been working for me

Use a smart phone alarm clock.. most of them have an option to require you to solve a math problem in order to 'snooze' it.. I use to hit the snooze button 10-15 times in the morning.. Now I get up on the first alarm. Granted doing math problems early in the morning is not fun.. but you can set the difficulty and set the number of problems you have to solve.

Interesting... is there an app for it?

Really? My trick? I just have to remind myself that this is the only time I have. If I don't do it at 5, then I won't be able to do it. I have to want the workout more than the sleep. Each week it is getting easier to get up and do my workout. It also helps if I wear my workout clothes to bed.

I work 2nd shift - so I don't have to wake up with the alarm clock. I get up at 8:30, get coffee going, do the morning "stuff" for the animals, have coffee, and by 10am I am finally awake enough (my legs need to get loose) to do cardio workouts.

I did have to go to 1st shift for some training this past winter and WHOA what a difference that is... having to set my alarm for 4:00 so that I could have the time before work to get in my cardio. I DID IT. I set my alarm clock across the room the first morning so that I HAD to get up. It was bleak and dark (very dark) outside but I turned on all the lights as I walked around in the house and I was able to wake up.

I think the lights were the key. If you can get an automatic light switch or a remote light switch that you can turn on as soon as the alarm goes off.. or one of those alarm clocks that emulates dawn? I have only heard about them but I truly believe that the key is the light.

And also KNOWING that it is only going to work if you get up and workout - otherwise you will fail like every other time you have tried.

Set your alarm to wake you up to Ruff Ryders Anthem by DMX.

No, I'm not joking. I can go back to sleep through almost any alarm, at any volume. But that song wakes me up at 4:50 every morning ready to kick some *kitten*!

As soon as the alarm goes off, sit up and put your feet on the floor. Don't eff around with the snooze button. Just...get up.

This right here. No trick, just do it. My alarm goes off at 4:10AM. I get up and stop it as quick as I can so I don't wake up my wife any more than I have to. When I first started this about 8 or 10 months ago my trigger was physically getting my feet to hit the floor. Once I had conquered that hurdle everything else was comparatively easy.

I work out in my living room most mornings or I go up to the Middle School up the street and run on the track there once a week. By 5:30 I'm done and in a(n annoyingly according to my wife) mood to wake everyone up to get ready for the day.

Two byproducts of being up at the butt-crack of dawn to work out are 1. - I've never slept better in my life (I have a very long history of insomnia prior to this schedule) 2. - Everything that happens that early in the morning ends up being pretty hazy by the end of the day so even if you had a killer workout you don't remember it being all that rough. Yesterday afternoon I was wondering what I did to make myself so sore and then remembered "Oh yeah, you did a ****load of chest and back exercises this morning."

I put my alarm clock on the other side of my bedroom. This way I have to get out of bed to shut it off. The night before I lay out my workout clothes. So once I am out of bed I get changed & start my workout.

Good luck finding what works best for you

Yes.

There is an alarm clock that connects via wifi to your bank account. Every time you hit snooze it donates money to a charity you hate.

There is also an alarm clock that is a rug. You have to stand on it to get it to shut off. You can't just put a book or something on it because it has to record YOUR weight to turn off.

There is also an alarm clock on wheels, it starts "driving" around the room when the alarm goes off and you have to get up and catch it to turn it off.

No, I'm not making this up. They are all real.

I work 2nd shift - so I don't have to wake up with the alarm clock. I get up at 8:30, get coffee going, do the morning "stuff" for the animals, have coffee, and by 10am I am finally awake enough (my legs need to get loose) to do cardio workouts.

I did have to go to 1st shift for some training this past winter and WHOA what a difference that is... having to set my alarm for 4:00 so that I could have the time before work to get in my cardio. I DID IT. I set my alarm clock across the room the first morning so that I HAD to get up. It was bleak and dark (very dark) outside but I turned on all the lights as I walked around in the house and I was able to wake up.

I think the lights were the key. If you can get an automatic light switch or a remote light switch that you can turn on as soon as the alarm goes off.. or one of those alarm clocks that emulates dawn? I have only heard about them but I truly believe that the key is the light.

And also KNOWING that it is only going to work if you get up and workout - otherwise you will fail like every other time you have tried.

I think the lights suggestion is the best one I've read in this thread and I'm going to try it.

Yes.

There is an alarm clock that connects via wifi to your bank account. Every time you hit snooze it donates money to a charity you hate.

There is also an alarm clock that is a rug. You have to stand on it to get it to shut off. You can't just put a book or something on it because it has to record YOUR weight to turn off.

There is also an alarm clock on wheels, it starts "driving" around the room when the alarm goes off and you have to get up and catch it to turn it off.

No, I'm not making this up. They are all real.

This is hilarious! LOL!

Yes.

There is an alarm clock that connects via wifi to your bank account. Every time you hit snooze it donates money to a charity you hate.

I love it! Do you think I could get it to donate to the Democratic party?? Calm down people its just a joke...

+100000

You could also get a dog. They like to get up at the same time every day.

My dogs havebecome very unreliable as alarm clocks, fortunately my internal clock works pretty well and I wake up by around 5:00 most days.

I have a dog that comes in my room at 5am every day to feed him and take him outside. :laugh:

Also works with cats . Feed them at 5 am every day for a week, and they will never let you stay in bed later unless you bar the bedroom door and invest in earplugs. It took me months to break them of 4 am after I finished clinical rotations.