How do you get yourself to wake up early enough in the morning to exercise?

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Derek P.

Most people are going to tell you to sleep early and don’t use your phone. My trick is start your exercise at night. For first few weeks, I start.my marathon training at night and complete the easy tasks. Then at night, I am too tired to stay up so late and too excited to get up and finish running early. Some times it is easy to wake up early to do things you like to do. Learn to like exercise first.

Anne U.

My mother wakes me up.. And i do not wake up EARLY in the morning!!! I wake up at 8 a.m or 9 a.m and as i said my mother wakes me.. And becaus i want to do it i will wake up

Frida P.

I have set a “Go to bed” reminder to sleep early enough in the night. Waking up in the early morning is easier if you set the wake-up alarm after a duration of sleep in multiples of the sleep cycle period. Generally, the sleep cycle is of 90 minutes. My Goto bed alarm is at 10:20 pm and wake up alarm at 04:20 am. That makes it 6 hours = 4 sleep cycles long. Invariably I find myself awake just before the wake up alarm goes off. In case I miss to act on the 10:20 Goto bed alarm, I ensure that I go to bed by 11:50 pm not before. That makes the length of sleep equal to 3 sleep cycles. Again I am able to wake up at 4:20 am. The state of sleep at the end of each sleep cycle is very close to awareness. If at that moment we do not get up or feel tired enough, we go into the next sleep cycle for another 90 minutes. Hope this is a helpful tip!

Clara O.

When the alarm goes off, get up. Snooze never helps. Plan something enjoyable for your first few minutes when you get up and it will probably make it a bit easier. Also try to keep in mind that you will only remain groggy and tired for a few minutes. Once you’re up and moving you’ll feel better. Make it a routine and it will get easier. You do have to learn, though, when it is best to rest instead. Your body will tell you when exercise is likely to hurt instead of help.

Edwin P.

Honestly I’m still a work in progress on this. But, I’ve set my alarm 45 minutes earlier than I actually need to get up. It does help!

Enola Y.

Keeping my body healthy and fit is my first priority in a day, work out in the morning keeps me active all day long. Secondly, having a good gym partner is very important and help you motivate every time . Finally, if you get you early, you have long day and extra time to cover all your needs.

Albert Z.

The most important part is the evening before. You have to actually get enough sleep. I also have the added motivation of some quiet time to wake up before the rest of my family if I wake up in time to exercise.

Lorenzo S.

I’ve practiced just waking up. It was too difficult to maintain waking up and excerising so I worked on waking up first and practice meditation. Once I had a good routine of waking up at 6,i starting excerising

Charlotte O.

I normally don’t do a full-blown workout in the morning because I go to the gym with friends in the evening, but I do have a trick that helps me when I need to wake up early. I put my phone or alarm clock in a separate room from my bed so I can’t just roll over and hit snooze, I have to get up and walk a distance to turn the alarm off.

Lenny T.

After I got up early enough to exercise/stretch the first couple days, after that if i didnt stretch in the morning my bones would ache. The only thing that keeps me getting up 10 minutes early is knowing that i will feel so much better and it will be worth it.

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