I put my alarm across the room. If I have to get out of bed to turn it off, it’s 100x easier to stay up and get moving!!

I am a get up and get it done kind of gal, but with two kids and a home based business, I know too many things can get in the way of my workout and that would just make me mad for the rest of the day. You have the right idea, you just have to convince yourself that you have no other choice. Sorry about the puking. Those are not good mornings for early workouts though. Love the color of that smoothie! I hope you have a great day anyway!

it is tough for sure to get up early and workout. i have to do it that way because my job is too busy and once i am home i am toast. i just get up and do it-don’t think too much. however you have had quite a few rough nights. if i was cleaning up vomit at 3am i would not have made it either! don’t worry it will come…….

i have no tips, because i suck getting up early to workout. i save mine for after work. making plans with a buddy always use to motivate me if i wanted to go early. you feel bad ditching them!

Oh man I would KILL for an early morning hot yoga class at my studio. All our early classes are not heated. I go through stages with the whole waking up thing. Some weeks it is no problem at all, others I just canNOT get out of bed. I think the easiest way is to make it a routine and do it every day, but my schedule does not always allow for morning workouts so that’s not possible for me. So, yeah, I am not helpful at all, haha! I wouldn’t have gotten up for early morning yoga after cleaning up dog vom all night either, if it makes you feel any better 🙂

I used to be a 6am-er worker outer but lately i’ve been struggling too!!!! Its hard for me to work out at night and “wait all day” but lately i’ve been there at noon or later-yikes!

Hey, with nights like that, you’ll be super prepared for kids! Ok, ok, I know, enough with the pregnant talk.

Hope you get some sound sleep tonight!

I wish I could say I was that early bird exerciser but it just doesn’t happen. I think 8 hours of sleep from 10-6 feels like less than 12-8 if that makes sense. Don’t know why!

Anyway, I hope James is feeling better, hey it’s good practice for parenthood right?:)

I’ve found, and this may sound a little crazy, that if I give myself a little pep talk the night before on why I’m going to get up at 5:15 to workout I am 99% successful. Like I said, “talking to yourself” sounds a little crazy, but hey, it works!

I envy those who can get to the gym at 6am. One day when I “grow up” maybe I can do it.. but for now I am just too happy snoozing for a half an hour.

I want to be an early morning exerciser in the worst way, but no matter what I do I can’t get out of bed to do it!!!!!

My favorite workouts are in the morning, in fact for the past two springs and summers, I was up everyday around 4:30 am to get ready/hit the gym by 5 or 5:15. Lately, it’s hit or miss and my alarm has ALWAYS been set for 4:30. Last week I was only able to get up on Friday, so I’m hoping that tomorrow will be my lucky day. Yes, I hit snooze until about 6:45 :/ It’s just been so hard lately!

Since the new year I’ve had no choice but to learn how to wake up before the sun rises. I live with my boyfriend who is in the Army. Where we moved (El Paso) does not have a 24 Hour Fitness (my gym membership that I could use across the US where available). So my boyfriend lets me use his car to use the gym on fort. Well he has to be at work by 8am. So I wake up at 5am and by 6am I’m at the gym. They offer a spin class 3 times a week at 6am, that I try to do at least once. The other times I do my own thing. Sometimes I’ll stay home and do a workout DVD or yoga, but it feels good to consistently get up around the same time Monday-Friday. I found a new routine that I enjoy and by 7am my workout is done and my day is just starting!

Oh and when that alarm goes off.. I don’t press snooze. I just quickly roll out of bed and wake up. Sometimes you gotta rough it out 😉

I am so not a morning workout person. I’ve tried so many times, and it just doesn’t happen, so I’ve resigned myself to after-work gym sessions and weekend yoga classes.

I have to go right to work from the gym so I pack up my gym bag. Put all my food together for the day. And I actually sleep in my gym clothes (probably gross, but whatev). That way I legit roll out of bed, brush my teeth, throw back my hair, quick breakfast and am out the door!

Yep! I run with my fiance 3 days/week in the morning. We talk about it all throughout the week like it’s an upcoming date so we’re all excited about it.

I am 100% an afternoon exerciser! My BF is really supportive and understands this so after work I take off for my run. I find I have the most energy and the most WANT to workout at that time. Morning for me is torture.

I am definitely a morning person, so I’ve been doing AM workouts for years – I love the feeling of heading to the gym or running outside in the peace and quiet when most people are still asleep. That being said, I have plenty of mornings when the alarm goes off at 5:45am and I am NOT feeling it… I tell myself then that even if I sleep for another hour, I’ll probably STILL feel cranky about getting up then, so I might as well just go work out because I know I’ll feel good after that!

Gah – it’s the 3rd time I’ve noticed you using “suppose to” instead of “supposed to” and it makes me want to spork my eyes out! Is it a typo (because I realize there’s no difference between the two in the spoken word)? Does it not come up during a spell or grammar check?

Not at all trying to be jerky! We all make mistakes! But seeing it 3 times (in about a month) makes me think it’s not a mistake.

Totally a morning sweat girl. I hate working out at night and find myself seriously lacking motivation to hit the gym after work. I try and chant that to myself if I’m struggling to get out bed in the morning: “you will never regret a morning workout…you will never regret a morning workout.”

I know this isn’t much help, but you just have to DO it. I’m naturally a morning person though…I thrive in the morning hours, so I love waking up and starting the day fresh with a workout.
Other more helpful tips:
-even if you miss your 6:30 am class, still get your work out in first thing in the morning.
-plan as small a breakfast as you can, and eat a real breakfast after. Sometimes I’ll eat a banana with PB before my workout, and then some toast or yogurt + cereal after!

sigh…i so badly wish i could work out in the mornings, even just to go run, but i already wake up at 4:30 just to get to work, so my attempts at morning workouts have not once been successful.

Absolutely not — like you, I’ve tried EVERYTHING to turn myself into an earlybird exerciser, but I just can’t drag my a- um, bum– out of bed any earlier than I absolutely HAVE to to get to work on time. I go to bed by 10, eat a relatively healthy diet, lay out my workout clothes — heck, I’ve even had the DVD running so all I had to do was turn on the tv and press “play” in the morning — NOTHING works!

I think I know what my problem is, though… I live RIGHT above trolley tracks, and the T runs from 5:30a-1a. I’m probably only getting 4.5 hours of quality sleep! It sounds like you’re stuck in the same boat the past few days, with all the random disturbances :(. I hope James feels better!

Ugh! Sorry about the vom 2 nights in a row! Ugh! I’m a morning exerciser. Sometimes what I’ll do is set 2 alarms. One right next to my bed that I can snooze, then another (set for a little later – like when I gotta get up) that’s in the bathroom. The first one wakes me up (otherwise I might sleep thru the bathroom alarm), then the second one forces me to get up to turn off the annoying beep….and then I’m in the bathroom ready to get ready!

I must have something on my mind, because at first glance I read a post title of, “Best Plans to get Laid”. Oops!

Augh, sorry about all the mishaps this week! You definitely made an effort, and that truly counts for something. Hope you can fit yoga in around your plans for next week!

I must admit I’m an early morning runner. On my running days, I’m up at 5am to either be out the door or to the gym by no later than 5:30am. I have to be home for 6:30am before the hubby leaves for work, and the kids or I have activities almost every evening, so if I don’t get my run in early, it usually doesn’t happen. I always have everything set out the morning before, which helps a lot. But I find you really have to commit in your mind that you are going to get up early and exercise in order for it to work. If I’m humming and hawing because of the weather, it’s harder to get up and going. Once you’ve done it for a while, it gets to be a habit. Most days now I wake up before my alarm!

I like to exercise around 8 or 9 in the morning, sometimes if its too late I make A LOT of excuses (like im too tired)

I’ve just started with early workouts and I am really loving it! the gym is so lovely at 6 am – my choice of weights, treadmills, TV shows. plus it’s amazing to be done for the day before it really even starts! the thing that gets me out of bed, though, is knowing that I’ll feel fine after 5 minutes of being up – it’s just that initial hump I have to get past.

Well, not sure what qualifies as early morning, but I need to get rolling on my workout by 7:30 in order to get to work by 10:30. I have a lot of trouble getting up- not a morning person, and am often running a half-hour late, which often turns into missing breakfast- not good. I’m trying to figure out how to have breakfast pre-made and in my lunch bag so I can just eat when I get to work.

I’m a morning exerciser, and for me it’s honestly really just faking it til you make it. Once you get in the habit of doing it, it stops being hard to do. So, I just try not to think about it as much as possible, I just put one foot in front of the other and DO it. And if I need a little help, I’ll just think about 3 hours from then when I’m sitting at my desk wishing I had worked out!

It will be easier when it becomes a routine (I think it takes about 2 weeks). Then you’ll curse yourself because on the days you want to sleep in, you’ll wake up early or the dogs won’t like it, or the phone will ring…get the pic?!

I have 8:30 am classes every day and there is absolutely nothing in this world that could get me up early enough to go to the gym before then. 😛

These past few nights sound like they’ve been rough! I hope you get a killer sleep tonight!

I do the same thing! I think I’ve only managed to successfully wake up for an early workout ONE time! I have no good advice…I like to sleep too much right now.

I SO WISH I was an early-AM exerciser… but I’m just not. It’s funny because I’m definitely a morning person: I like to get up early and I’m always chipper (and I do’t even drink coffee). Yet even though my mind is awake, my body is not. I have the most exercise energy right before dinner.

There is no way I could drag my butt out of bed early enough to workout before work. I wake up at 350a as it is to be to work on time. :/ I do a split shift though, so typically I work out in between shifts.

I’m definitely a morning exerciser! I do the things you mentioned, like set my clothes out, get into bed early, and set an alarm. But I think the sooner you actually get dressed in the morning, the better. Less time to contemplate in your pajamas! Once I’m dressed for the gym, that’s it. I’m going. And also, don’t do too much beforehand aside from getting ready and eating. Make your workout the first thing on your to-do list so that it doesn’t get bumped to the back burner.

I wish I could get up in the morning and exercise. When I do , randomly, I always feel SO much better. Plus, my day is pretty much done after work!

i am failing miserably at making smoothies. They are either too runny or too icy. Actually I can almost never get the ice to blend in my blender. That one looks so delicious. Mind sharing the recipe and some tips?

I usually get up early, but I think I’m just born that way!

Yes, I workout in the morning before anyone else gets up because evenings are too short and I’m too tired to do it. I usually decide what workout I’m doing the night before. And my workout clothes and water are ready to go. The biggest thing for me at 5:15 a.m. is to tell myself “NO excuses.” That gets me off my keister and into my workout room.

I wake up at 5am Mon-Fri to take 6am classes, either it be spin or bootcamp, and whenever I really don’t feel like getting out of bed, I always remind myself that I’ll feel amazing afterward and will be ready to tackle the work day ahead. It always works for me!!

I also set a timer on my coffee maker for 5am so that the smell of coffee is wafting up to our bedroom…that always helps and makes me feel like I’m in a Folgers commercial 😉