Early morning work-outs (Page 3)

BHannahs - 2008-03-14 3:14 PM I routinely get up at 4:00 to get my training in before I leave for the office.   I can't say that I feel fully awake at that hour, but I think it makes it easier to put my body through the workout before it has a chance to wake up and realize what is going on and be able to protest.  It's almost like a hostage situation. 

LOL! Ain't that the truth when it's dark, cold and windy!

You know it's early when... I go into the bathroom to get dressed and have to use the dimmer light because even the family cat is squinting from the bright lights.

Another thing---

I like my early 5 am runs because it's DARK. Yeah, I'm slow..but I've seen how I look in the reflection of retail establishment windows... and lets just say I'd be happy if I only had to share my odd running gait/look during races vs with the entire town everyday in broad day light.

I wish my dogs were like that!  But mine now understand when I'm hitting the snooze button.  They get up and get excited like, "She's up!  She's up!"  Then sad, "No she's not...that was just the snooze button."  And they flop back down on their beds.  I wish they would make me get up!

I need that clocky! 

I have a hard time waking up in the AM as well.  I realize now that it is when I am forcing my body tohave less than 7 hours of sleep.  My problem is that I already get up at 5:30AM (lol - OK I TRY to get up at 5:30AM) to be in to work at 7AM.  I actually have been waking up at 6:40AM and gettng to work around 8:30AM.  THis sucks.

I get off at 4 and don't get home until well after 5PM, sometimes 5:30 (supposing I actually got into work on time - otherwise it is 6:30PM before I get home).

 I really want to get in some AM workouts because my schedule has a lot of back to back workouts and splitting them up throughout the day works better for me - better quality of each individual workout (obviously bricks are excluded from this!)

I am just tired of rolling out of bed an hour after my alarm goes off stubbing my toes in a rage of complete absurdaity just trying to get out the door in order to get to work late.  Again.

I will try moving my alarm clock to across the room - I think that will help.  I am the snooze queen.

Pretty much agree with what's been said.  I'm used to oh-dark-thirty wake-ups (28 years of military life will do that to you).

That said, the one thing that gets me out of the bed is laying all my stuff out the night before.  Workout clothes, heart rate monitor, water bottles filled with powder that just need to be filled up, iPod, etc.  The reason this helps me is I can sometimes talk myself out of working out if I think I have to "do stuff".  With everything laid out the night before, it sets a mental expectation that I'll be getting up and transitioning right to the workout.

Oh yeah, I also set my coffee maker to be done when my workout is done.  That way my reward is a fresh cup o' joe.

I'm usually up at 0430.

You can do this!

I would definitely start slowly with one day at a time.  I actually can't handle getting up at the crack of stupid (4:45am) more than three days in a given week.  Right now I have it down to Monday's and Wednesday and do my third swim on Friday afternoons but if we have plans it gets pushed to the AM.  I am VERY crabby if  A.) I have to do it two days in a row and B.) More than three times a week not to mention incoherant.  Maybe start with Friday's and then go to Tues/Fridays so you have some recovery time.  A little extra gu in the morning doesn't hurt the workout either if your really having a tough time.

 Good Luck!

K