If you wake up 4:30-5:30 to workout, what time do you go to bed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For people who wake up early to workout, do you have coffee first? I would love to become a morning workout person but need coffee first, so that adds in like an extra 20 minutes to the morning routine.

No I don’t, and I’m also a coffee person. Trust me, you don’t need it. It is too quick and intense of a morning. I wake up, throw on workout clothes, spash face, brush teeth, head to gym (or basement). The less time you spend putzing about in the very early morning pre-workout, the better you will feel. It is like ripping the bandaid off. You to wake up and get right to it, otherwise your motivation will start to wain and you will come up with things to need to do in the morning instead.

The post workout, post shower coffee is so much better anyway.

[Anonymous]

8-8:30. I wake up at 4 to drink coffee and kinda wake up, head to the gym around 5:20, home around 6:30, take kids to school and go to work.

[Anonymous]

No I don’t, and I’m also a coffee person. Trust me, you don’t need it. It is too quick and intense of a morning. I wake up, throw on workout clothes, spash face, brush teeth, head to gym (or basement). The less time you spend putzing about in the very early morning pre-workout, the better you will feel. It is like ripping the bandaid off. You to wake up and get right to it, otherwise your motivation will start to wain and you will come up with things to need to do in the morning instead.

Morning people are so fascinating to me. This morning, my cat woke me up from a dream at 8:30 and I needed to make and drink a K-cup in order to shake off enough cobwebs to make a pot of real coffee. Now that I've had my 3 cups and my oatmeal, I'll do my "morning workout" on the treadmill at 11. I cannot roll out of bed and function at all.

(On weekdays, I sleep from 12:30 or 1 am until 7:30 or 8, work from 9-5:30 or 6, and do my exercise in the evening (an hour sometime between 7:30 and 10). I don't think I've gone to bed at 9 pm since I was 7 or 8 years old.

[Anonymous]

I never considered myself a morning person until I had kids, particularly my 2nd who loves waking up 6-630.

Now I love early mornings, so quiet. I do t always work out first thing in the morning, but love it when I do.

I do have a quick cup of coffee before the workout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For people who wake up early to workout, do you have coffee first? I would love to become a morning workout person but need coffee first, so that adds in like an extra 20 minutes to the morning routine.

Sometimes I have iced cold brew coffee, and sometimes I have it private in a thermos to take along.

[Anonymous]

(premade, not private)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No I don’t, and I’m also a coffee person. Trust me, you don’t need it. It is too quick and intense of a morning. I wake up, throw on workout clothes, spash face, brush teeth, head to gym (or basement). The less time you spend putzing about in the very early morning pre-workout, the better you will feel. It is like ripping the bandaid off. You to wake up and get right to it, otherwise your motivation will start to wain and you will come up with things to need to do in the morning instead.

Morning people are so fascinating to me. This morning, my cat woke me up from a dream at 8:30 and I needed to make and drink a K-cup in order to shake off enough cobwebs to make a pot of real coffee. Now that I've had my 3 cups and my oatmeal, I'll do my "morning workout" on the treadmill at 11. I cannot roll out of bed and function at all.

(On weekdays, I sleep from 12:30 or 1 am until 7:30 or 8, work from 9-5:30 or 6, and do my exercise in the evening (an hour sometime between 7:30 and 10). I don't think I've gone to bed at 9 pm since I was 7 or 8 years old.

I’m the PP. I’m not a “morning person” but with children home all day with me, very early morning is the only time I have to get a workout in. I prioritize it and make it happen. But I was also in the military for years. Everyone in the military is a morning person, whether you want to be or not. I promise you can get a lot accomplished before every wakes up and without 3 cups of coffee and your oatmeal first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No I don’t, and I’m also a coffee person. Trust me, you don’t need it. It is too quick and intense of a morning. I wake up, throw on workout clothes, spash face, brush teeth, head to gym (or basement). The less time you spend putzing about in the very early morning pre-workout, the better you will feel. It is like ripping the bandaid off. You to wake up and get right to it, otherwise your motivation will start to wain and you will come up with things to need to do in the morning instead.

Morning people are so fascinating to me. This morning, my cat woke me up from a dream at 8:30 and I needed to make and drink a K-cup in order to shake off enough cobwebs to make a pot of real coffee. Now that I've had my 3 cups and my oatmeal, I'll do my "morning workout" on the treadmill at 11. I cannot roll out of bed and function at all.

(On weekdays, I sleep from 12:30 or 1 am until 7:30 or 8, work from 9-5:30 or 6, and do my exercise in the evening (an hour sometime between 7:30 and 10). I don't think I've gone to bed at 9 pm since I was 7 or 8 years old.

OP here, and yes I totally need coffee. It also helps get the colon going

I'd much rather wake up at like 6-7 and run at 8-9am, but that's not possible due to Life and also the weather in the summer. I need to be indoors by 7:30am, even on a Sunday - it's way too hot outside by then.

I don't remember the last time I slept past 7:30 am. I think it was 6 years ago when I had the flu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No I don’t, and I’m also a coffee person. Trust me, you don’t need it. It is too quick and intense of a morning. I wake up, throw on workout clothes, spash face, brush teeth, head to gym (or basement). The less time you spend putzing about in the very early morning pre-workout, the better you will feel. It is like ripping the bandaid off. You to wake up and get right to it, otherwise your motivation will start to wain and you will come up with things to need to do in the morning instead.

Morning people are so fascinating to me. This morning, my cat woke me up from a dream at 8:30 and I needed to make and drink a K-cup in order to shake off enough cobwebs to make a pot of real coffee. Now that I've had my 3 cups and my oatmeal, I'll do my "morning workout" on the treadmill at 11. I cannot roll out of bed and function at all.

(On weekdays, I sleep from 12:30 or 1 am until 7:30 or 8, work from 9-5:30 or 6, and do my exercise in the evening (an hour sometime between 7:30 and 10). I don't think I've gone to bed at 9 pm since I was 7 or 8 years old.

OP here, and yes I totally need coffee. It also helps get the colon going

I'd much rather wake up at like 6-7 and run at 8-9am, but that's not possible due to Life and also the weather in the summer. I need to be indoors by 7:30am, even on a Sunday - it's way too hot outside by then.

I don't remember the last time I slept past 7:30 am. I think it was 6 years ago when I had the flu.

I make coffee but don’t drink it till after my workout.
I drink a water bottle of c4 before class. It gives me plenty of extra energy for a 5am workout

[Anonymous]

9:30 every night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never considered myself a morning person until I had kids, particularly my 2nd who loves waking up 6-630.

Now I love early mornings, so quiet. I do t always work out first thing in the morning, but love it when I do.

I do have a quick cup of coffee before the workout.

+1 I brew the coffee before using bathroom/getting dressed, have maybe 1/4 cup before I go, the rest after the workout.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aim for bed by 9pm, sleep by 10.

How is this possible? I wake up at 7:45 and am still in bed by 9 pm.

Do you think you really need almost 11 hrs of sleep per night? Sounds a bit lazy unless there is some medical reason

It sounds amazing but you have to choose : 8 hours of sleep and a workout or 11 hours of sleep. No wrong choice but there’s only so many hours in the day. Most of us have the same time we just make different choices about using the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aim for bed by 9pm, sleep by 10.

How is this possible? I wake up at 7:45 and am still in bed by 9 pm.

Do you think you really need almost 11 hrs of sleep per night? Sounds a bit lazy unless there is some medical reason

It sounds amazing but you have to choose : 8 hours of sleep and a workout or 11 hours of sleep. No wrong choice but there’s only so many hours in the day. Most of us have the same time we just make different choices about using the time.

Why? I sleep 8 hours and workout an hour every day. I work FT and have kids. The timing of the workout changed but I always get it done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aim for bed by 9pm, sleep by 10.

How is this possible? I wake up at 7:45 and am still in bed by 9 pm.

Do you think you really need almost 11 hrs of sleep per night? Sounds a bit lazy unless there is some medical reason

It sounds amazing but you have to choose : 8 hours of sleep and a workout or 11 hours of sleep. No wrong choice but there’s only so many hours in the day. Most of us have the same time we just make different choices about using the time.

Why? I sleep 8 hours and workout an hour every day. I work FT and have kids. The timing of the workout changed but I always get it done.

That’s… exactly what I said. You sleep 8 hours and workout. You do not sleep 11 hours because if you did you probably wouldn’t workout. That’s the choice most of us make.

[Anonymous]

Nearly 8:30 so bedtime. Will wake at 4-4:30, finish up laundry, drink coffee. Bathroom time. Then workout 45 minutes as soon as light out (powerwalk). Shower. lunch is already packed and in the fridge. Then off to work, which is only 15 minutes away.

Kid goes to bed same time. She will fall asleep by 9. She wakes up at 6ish and does/finishes/reviews homework. Likes to pack her own lunch.

Tweaks here and there, but that's basically it.