[Closed] Early morning exercise.- how?

Get the **** up, get the **** out.

It's not exactly difficult.

i spent years getting up at 4am 3 times a week to swim for tri training. routine makes it easier

Just exercise in bed

cheers. I will try to plan a routine - and do it!

MTFU - Once you have got into the routine and you're going to bed a bit earlier it will become easier, but beginning is difficult. I struggled for the first few weeks of commuting 30 miles from 6:30am, now it's not so bad 🙂

As soon as you wake up put some shorts and a t-shirt on and get out for a run..

Up and out within 5 mins..

When you get in you'll feel totally invigorated and you'll be set up for the day (after a hearty breakfast)

Just about to set my alarm for 5am ride tomorrow. Setting myself a goal helps, and laying off the beer/wine a bit. Oh and good sleep, oops less than 7 hours to go, better put the ipod away!

It's just getting up early, it's not hard.

Get on with it you bloody blouse.

thanks all. 😀

The only way I managed to get up early was the incentive of an hour or 2 messing a chicksands. Well until my mate spannered himself one morning.
Sadly my motivation for getting out of bed has gone the same way

Jedi, I can assure you @ 4am I will be asleep.that's committed!

I put the alarm clock halfway down the stairs. this you will find is the tipping point that gets you to the kettle rather than the bed again.

yeah, good point.

thanks all.

agree with townfox. wake up, get up, kit on straight away, kind of before you fully wake up.

ta.

I've recently started commuting part-way to work to get more miles in my legs.
All-in it's a 60 mile each way journey, so I have to leave the house by 6:30 at the latest, drive most of the way and then park up, get the bike out & ride in the last 12.5 miles.

The key to doing it for me is to make sure ALL of the kit is prepared the evening before as well as whatever stuff is needed for work. I have also started putting the alarm on the other side of the room as getting out of bed is the hardest part for me but once I'm up I can generally crack on.

In the past I used to do a 6:30am Spin class & also a swimming session before work too. For these as well the key to actually doing it was to get everything prepared so all i had to do was get out of bed, get dressed, brush my teeth and go.

I commute at 6 am 3 or 4 days a week, up at 5.45 . As one poster said, get your kit out the night before. Whatever you decide to do you will feelbetter for it.

thanks.

Are you up yet?

JUICED.

GET UP COME ON MAN GET UP

Lol, good sign that he hasn't replied, maybe he's running up the steps of the local footy stadium... the eye of the tiger!

And there was me thinking leaving at 8am was an early morning ride!

My girlfriend is a nurse and works 12hr shifts 3 times a week. I don't start until 10am, so her alarm wakes me up at the same time so I started riding to work with her then out for a road ride after that.

Get insomnia, that helps, A LOT. After you've spent a few years going for three days at a time without sleeping, getting yourself out of bed at 4am for a quick ride or run is easy.

Up at 5am this morning for my commute. Sweet!

I remember when I was Tri training I used to be up at 4am for a ride or a run, would then drive the 60 miles to Leeds, work, go for a swim at dinner time, drive the 60 miles back in the afternoon and then go out for another or run in the evening.

The human body and mind is amazing.

I set my alarm for 6am to go the gym. Didn't get up till 7:30.

Must try harder tomorrow!

get up at 6.30 for a commute a few times a week, set off by 6.45. Not too bad unless I choose a particularly steep climb early on.

on the summer solstice I was up at 3.50, out the door before 4 for a 5 hour ride before work. Thought I'd be knackered but was buzzing all day, and even the 15 miles back home seemed easy.

I used to get up at 5pm to commute into Cambridge thus avoiding certain death that was rush hour traffic. Secret it to have everything ready to go the night before.

When I'm on earlies I get up at 6 for a dump and a weetabix, leave at 6.30 for an hour and a half ride, then have half an hour at work for another dump and a wash before starting at 8.30. Great way to start the day, and means I don't have to do my long ride at the end of the day, just 10 mins home. Each day I try and beat my previous days time, so that's a bit of motivation I suppose.

I generally go to the gym about 6am 3 times a week before work - I love the fact that by the time you get in work you feel like you're wide awake and really making the most of the day.

In my experience some are able to get out running early morning, other are not.
Personally I find 5 mins into an early morning run I have to turn back as I need a poo.

take some toilet roll with you and combine the activities? Or just wear a nappy?

Seeing the sun rise on a ride rules, gotta just do it.

Personally I find 5 mins into an early morning run I have to turn back as I need a poo.

Maybe jog on the spot for 5 mins at home first, a 'shake down' so to speak.

I'm not a morning person, and I can generally only get up early if I'm meeting someone. (hate being late/letting people down)

Even then, the first 30-60 minutes I operate way below par.

Too much information guys 🙂

Lay all your kit out the night before, and tell your bird that you're doing XYZ in the morning. That way there's no excuse.

I took my dogs out for 1/2 hour at 0730 this morning. That was more than enough 'invigoration' for me.

Some people just aren't meant to do mornings 8)

Ride 13 miles three times a week first thing and also happy to get up at first light for a surf. But for some reason on my "run" days I find it a real bu66er going out early so tend to leave it until later in the day. Wierd.

Bollox to that getting up at 05.45 for days is early enough days off are for catching up and having a lie in until at least 7am.

My regular Thursday morning...up at 5am, drive down the M40, ride 18 miles over the Chilterns, done & having a shower by 8am. Almost without exception, between about 5 and 5:30 I remind myself what a silly idea this is & how I probably won't do it next week. But, that feeling is always gone once the porridge is on-board & I'm driving to the trail. I also like the smug feeling it gives me for the rest of the day 🙂

Oh, and as above, the key (for me at least) is to have everything ready to go the night before. I even mix up the porridge & stick it in the fridge. Faffing at 5am is not fun.

I get up and go for a quick run at 7am a few mornings a week, the ONLY way I can convince myself to do it is by having someone else who has also commited to go.

I.e - I know that a buddy is expecting to meet me outside at 7am so I cant let them down, or, my wife comes too and between us we muster enough enthusiasm to get out there.

I shall be back on the commute from next week, so will have to be out of the house by 7.15.

This is going to be hard enough, having been off the bike for several weeks, let alone with the sleepless nights brought on by a newborn....

I've got a baby so mornings are fast becoming the only time I have to fit stuff in.. currently getting up at 5:45 on fridays to run to the swimming pool. swim, then run back.. feels great. If I commute on the bike I'm up at 6..

as previous posters have said, get your kit ready the night before, that way, it's brainless in the morning :o)