If you workout in the morning

[Anonymous]

I wish I could make myself wake up and exercise in the morning, but I have to be out the door for work by 6:50 and I just can't handle the 5am wake-up that would be required.

[Anonymous]

OP, thing thing is to do it regularly so it becomes a habit. I used to work out three times a week in the early morning but since I wasn't going every day it was easier to tell myself I would catch up later. I changed to five times a week just because it would make getting up early a habit. That's my best advice to you. Get up early Monday through Friday and do it for so long that you just can't imagine doing anything else.

[Anonymous]

I get up at 6, workout until 6:50, 10 min shower , get kids ready and out of the house to school by 7:50. I do not feel complete without my morning workout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who the hell gets up at 8:45! We are all at work by then! I workout in the mornings and I get up by 4 to do so. I need to be DONE with my workout by 6:15 so I wake up, drink coffee, read, then workout no later than 5:15. You are the worst lol

NP. OP, don’t let all these early birds shame you!!! I get up at 8:45 am pretty frequently! I’m a well paid lawyer! I’m just a night owl. My life is going well, folks.

[Anonymous]

I work out (power walk from 5-5:30am) so I get up at 4:45am. In winter i just go out in my pajamas with a hat coat gloves thrown over top of them. I used to put on fancy running clothes but really time is of the essence. Pee, rinse with mouth wash, dress, out the door in 15 minutes. Everything -- including flashlight and whistle and reflective vest -- is next to the bed or the back door. I walk as fast as i can for 30 minutes and sweat like a pig, about 2 miles. I go to bed at 9pm if I can even make it that long. I work 7am-4pm. I do it everyday except when there is ice. I feel and look fab I especially love the way my skin glows with all the fresh air. I am 54 with 3 teenagers.

Example: We eat dinner around 5ish and then i work out my upper body with dumbbells in the family room for 15-minutes. Then some yoga stretches. Prepare lunches for the next day, put away laundry, then bed. Each day is a little different.

Kids are allowed one activity each. All lights and devices (which we strictly monitor) out by 10pm as it is lights up for the kids at 6am. They have no problems as they see mom and dad get up and work out /get ready early. Husband also follows 10pm-6am regime of the kids.

I am not naturally an early morning person (used to sleep til 7am) but when i changed careers at 40 and had to be at work at 7am it just became habit. Now i can't not get up early and work out. Life is too busy after work for that to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get up at 6, workout until 6:50, 10 min shower , get kids ready and out of the house to school by 7:50. I do not feel complete without my morning workout.

I know someone like this, and it's weird. She thinks its fine when she walks into the office at 10:00 because "everyone knows I work late." Trust me, it's not fine. Everyone talks about what how strange you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who the hell gets up at 8:45! We are all at work by then! I workout in the mornings and I get up by 4 to do so. I need to be DONE with my workout by 6:15 so I wake up, drink coffee, read, then workout no later than 5:15. You are the worst lol

NP. OP, don’t let all these early birds shame you!!! I get up at 8:45 am pretty frequently! I’m a well paid lawyer! I’m just a night owl. My life is going well, folks.

Ha, thanks. OP here and I’m also a lawyer. I usually beat my manager to the office by a couple of hours. And my DH gets up even later and is some senior exec. We frequently work until 8pm or after we get home. I’m just trying to get back to doing the early morning workouts but I struggle in the winter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who the hell gets up at 8:45! We are all at work by then! I workout in the mornings and I get up by 4 to do so. I need to be DONE with my workout by 6:15 so I wake up, drink coffee, read, then workout no later than 5:15. You are the worst lol

For years my dad would wake up around 9am. You know, after working the night shift and getting home after 1 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get up at 6, workout until 6:50, 10 min shower , get kids ready and out of the house to school by 7:50. I do not feel complete without my morning workout.

I know someone like this, and it's weird. She thinks its fine when she walks into the office at 10:00 because "everyone knows I work late." Trust me, it's not fine. Everyone talks about what how strange you are.

False. We are all jealous AF.

[Anonymous]

Get up at 530 (as does DH). We are in bed around 9-930. Asleep between 930-10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who the hell gets up at 8:45! We are all at work by then! I workout in the mornings and I get up by 4 to do so. I need to be DONE with my workout by 6:15 so I wake up, drink coffee, read, then workout no later than 5:15. You are the worst lol

NP. OP, don’t let all these early birds shame you!!! I get up at 8:45 am pretty frequently! I’m a well paid lawyer! I’m just a night owl. My life is going well, folks.

I have no idea how you manage that unless you roll straight out of bed and go in to your office next to your house. The rest of us have to get kids to school, commute, and be at work at a reasonable hour. Good for you but that is NOT the norm for 99% of us who work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who the hell gets up at 8:45! We are all at work by then! I workout in the mornings and I get up by 4 to do so. I need to be DONE with my workout by 6:15 so I wake up, drink coffee, read, then workout no later than 5:15. You are the worst lol

For years my dad would wake up around 9am. You know, after working the night shift and getting home after 1 am.

Right and your shift work dad was very obviously the same as OP who is probably 23 and just doesn’t like getting up early. Don’t be reductive

[Anonymous]

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That is not the night shift. That is swing shift. My mom worked night shift as a nurse, which is 11pm-7am. She would get us ready and off to school when she got home at 7:30am, then chores, then sleep 10am-5pm. We were very careful not to wake her up when we got home from school.

[Anonymous]

I need at least 8 hours of sleep and am not a morning person. There is no way I can get up before 6:30 on a regular basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who the hell gets up at 8:45! We are all at work by then! I workout in the mornings and I get up by 4 to do so. I need to be DONE with my workout by 6:15 so I wake up, drink coffee, read, then workout no later than 5:15. You are the worst lol

NP. OP, don’t let all these early birds shame you!!! I get up at 8:45 am pretty frequently! I’m a well paid lawyer! I’m just a night owl. My life is going well, folks.

Ha, thanks. OP here and I’m also a lawyer. I usually beat my manager to the office by a couple of hours. And my DH gets up even later and is some senior exec. We frequently work until 8pm or after we get home. I’m just trying to get back to doing the early morning workouts but I struggle in the winter.

OP, if you have that kind of workplace flexibility, get up at 7:30 and workout. That's not an early morning workout and it shouldn't be unreasonable, even for someone who works until 8pm at night. You're not going to get much sympathy from those of us with less workplace flexibility and who have kids to get to school/drop at daycare/etc. Have some awareness that you're posting to a website marketed towards parents.