What time is too early to wake-up to work out? (Page 2)

Y'all are a bunch of slug-a-beds.

I'm in bed by 10:00 and wake up at 3:00 every day, weekends, holidays, weekends, whatever.

It keeps me on a regular schedule and I can do both morning and afternoon workouts.

I wake up at 4:15 5-6 days a week and go to bed at 10sh. I don't think you're crazy.

Add me to the early morning crew...up at 4am to get workouts in--so actually 4:45 would be sleeping in for me!  I go to bed when my girls do--8:30ish.  It's what works for me!

I did the before work thing for a while.  It was fine, and if you've got to be to work at 8, it's real easy to get in an hour.  I do feel pretty good after working out in the morning though, and as an added bonus, it's much, much cooler than after work (like in the 30-40F range).

Then I changed to getting in at 7, and watching the kid after work till the wife gets home at 9-10.  No way I could get in an hour of working out, 30-45min getting ready, 10min of commute time, and enough sleep to survive now

I get up at 4:00 or 4:30 every day and work out.  Never had a problem until the Owl attacked me on my 4:00 run this week.  Different thread...

I wake up between 4:15-4:30 each morning and spend an hour or so drinking coffee and trying to wake up before I work out. 

To me, "too early" is before 3:30.

I think it may take some trial and error to find what works, but it may take a week or two to actual have a fair go at getting up early.
I'm glad I read this. I knew there was something very wrong with me last year when I got up every Tuesday at 3:15am to get in a brick and a swim before 7:45am work. I'm not sure I even know who that girl is.
For me if the alarm starts with a "4" I can swing it. It looks a lot less intimidating after a while.
Bonus- when your colleagues ask you "When do you ever find the time to work out?" They'll think the alarm time is even more impressive than the workout specifics.

Add me to the after work trainers;  8 am on the weekends is early for me

I think any earlier than 4:30 is too early in my opinion...

Up by 3 on the road running or riding by 3:30. Have to be to work by 6am and 10 hr work days.

Sleep 45 more minutes.  Ditch the stretching. 

Eat in the car on the way to work.  I take an apple, banana, nuts, water, and coffee on my 30-40 min commute.  Sometimes sandwiches.  Come winter I'll be wanting hot oatmeal, but not sure how to eat it while driving....

Brian

Stretching for 30 minutes? I can hardly imagine a worse torture than 30 minutes spent stretching. Move, hold for 30 seconds, move, hold for 30 seconds. Waterboarding would be more pleasant. Yes, I said that.

Ten minutes a day is good enough for anybody.

Also a teacher -- first bell rings at 7:15am.  During my school year I pack everything the night before (I find that's really key for me -- I even put it in the car) and can get up at 4:30 and be in the pool by 5am since the gym is near my house.  I pack my breakfast as well and eat in front of my students -- I rationalize this by thinking it's good for them to watch somebody eat a healthy breakfast instead of a poptart or donut.  It does mean I'm usually in the bed by 9pm but I'm so exhausted by then that I fall asleep within seconds and sleep like a log.  I don't know that I'd ever feel comfortable biking or running in the dark by myself in the mornings, but going to the gym to swim or do a treadmill run has worked fine.  It's definitely a habit -- so in this first week back to school it is taking some tough self-talk when the alarm goes off to get out of bed.  Biking has to wait for the weekend for me during the school year, especially when the time changes. 

Another 4:30 AM teacher, here. I'm usually out the door or on the trainer about 10 minutes after the alarm, though, no snack first.

Wow, This sounds like I wrote it.  I get up at 4:25 every day, with 6.5-7 hours of sleep.  Some mornings I have gotten up at 3:45 to get some longer training in.  I'm a teacher and the school day starts pretty early, 7am.

I'm another early bird.  Up at 4 am every morning if not earlier (cat has been pulling my hair at 3:15ish lately).  Some nights I crash early and some nights I'm up later, whatever the body tells me.  Of course, though, I have no kids and my job is extremely flexible.  Getting up early to work out does take some getting used to.

In regards to the studies mentioned earlier.  I notice that I DO perform better when I work out in the afternoon; however, I'm mentally better in the morning.

3AM here Monday thru Friday.  Out the door by 3:20 for a two hour ride.  10-15 mins of ab work.  Shower and at the office at 6:45AM.  I do this M-Friday.  Some days I make it 3:30 wake up.  Depends on what my training day consist of.  When I am not doing 2 hour rides I will get to the YMCA 1.5 hours before it opens knock out a run and then swim.  I always try to get my workouts done in the AM before work.   I am in bed sleeping by 9PM most nights.  Weekends I start my day at 6:45AM.  As has been mentioned, if you get use to a routine stay with it. People look at you cross eyed but what ever works for you go for it.

3 AM?!  Yikes. But whatever works for you. 

I had a job assignment last summer where I had to wake up at 4:30 am to be at work at 6 am.  It made me into a complete b!tch.  It was torture, and I applied for a transfer. No one makes me get up at 4:30 am.

Now I get up at 6 am for work and work out in the evening.  DH, who's a night owl, thinks I'm crazy.

Personally, in that schedule, I'd eliminate the eat and the stretch and sleep until 5. (Which is what I do... and get to work around 7:15)