5am Club

Can barely make the 7am club.

5am? all the ‘cool’ guys get up half an hour earlier.

“The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social media.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/12/the-sad-stupid-rise-of-the-sigma-male-how-toxic-masculinity-took-over-social-media

“Your day begins at 4.30am with a cold shower, followed by a punishing workout and an even more punishing skincare routine. You shun conventional career paths and run your own business, probably in crypto or real estate or vigilante crime fighting. You are that rarest of males – you are a sigma.”

Ton has it.

If I didn’t work full time,  up at 5am,  nap at 2pm and bed for 10/10.30pm would be ideal for my body clock.

Most of last year to try to offset too many hours behind a desk I would get up at 5am to fit in an hours walk before getting the kids ready for school from 6.15 am.  Just due to life commitments I would struggle to get in bed before 10pm at all and with that routine and mild daily exercise I felt relaxed, had energy, good levels of concentration and rarely felt tired.  An afternoon nap in an armchair for 30 minutes really would have been the icing on the cake.

Now days getting up at 6am, without the daily walk, sitting behind the desk and bed for 10.30/11pm I generally feel like rubbish. I need to get back into last years routine.

Not getting enough sleep means you die younger… it’s a well established fact.

But you have wasted less time sleeping when younger and then can die a few years earlier rather that sit in a rest home staring at the walls.

NB. Strong indications that sleep deprivation is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s. That blank wall in the care home might be closer than you think.

You might be joking, but the idea that sleep constitutes wasted time is batshit mental.

I see lots of social media and celebrities promoting. . .

Social Media and celebrities – whatever it is it’s clearly rubbish.

on the basis your X times more productive.

For most people only true if X < 1

Most days I’m up at 4.40, then drive to gym near work. Workout, then have breakfast at work between 7 and 7.30. Finish work at 17.30 and home by 19.00.

I try and get to bed at 10pm

Been doing this for about 20 years.

At 5am I still have 3 hours sleep to go.

Get a dog and live somewhere northwards – dawn is 4am at which point the Dawn chorus is in full swing, next door’s cockerel is shouting to be let out and one of our dogs usually wants out.  By 5am the first brew has been consumed, I’ve probably read the paper online and Mrs DB is attending to her chickens.

The other problem I have with all this is part of the OP’s opening statement:

I see lots of social media and celebrities promoting getting up at 5am daily on the basis your X times more productive through the day.

What’s this overwhelming need to be “more productive”?