To see if any seasoned early morning exercisers are about?

Love this thread! I do a 6.30am or 9am workout everyday (depending on my work schedule). I pay an obscene amount for unlimited access to group PT sessions which run multiple times a day and if I were to cancel without notice, there would be a cancellation fee on top so it forces me to attend!

I am another who gets up, teeth brushed, clothes on and out. If I stop, I get side tracked and may not make it

I’m so impressed. Would love to join this club but how do I fit the early morning exercise around kids?

Mine are 11 and 13 and I like to see them in the morning before they disappear off to school at 0745 - they still need a bit of help with sorting themselves and kit out in the morning.

As for early nights I try to send them off to bed 9.30 ish so I guess I could go to bed then.

It will return, promise. Hang in there in the meantime.

Love this thread OP, I was an early exerciser then covid/work/menopause got in the way. I’ve restarted an 8am yoga class before work once a week & I always feel loads better for it.

I really want to get back into 615 strength classes but I’m worried about having enough energy I can’t remember what I used to eat! What does everyone do? I’d get dizzy on coffee alone.

Go to bed earlier. You can't stay up until midnight and enjoy waking up fresh with an early start.
It's no secret.

Oh this is fabulous. I will be using this!

My tip is get up straight away. I have a “sky before screens” rule. I have to see the sky before I look at a screen. If I start scrolling, I’m doomed. I think once it’s a habit, you’re ok. Until then you just have to jfdi

I swear and then just make myself do it. I know I will feel better earlier.

I’m so envious. I miss my early morning exercise routine. I did it for years before kids. I currently have a BF baby and a toddler and I’ve give anything to have that time to myself every day. Enjoy!

Can anyone share the secret to being able to get up out of bed early please???? I’m a life long lazy bones who can never get out of bed!!

I’m trying to do this, have managed a few 6:30 yoga classes. Struggle so much to wake and get out of bed early when it’s dark though. I’m going to try a sunrise clock to see if it helps.

LOVE this thread! I've been getting up between 3-5am for more than 20 years to practice yoga. Believe me, it's worth it. You create health and competency beyond what you believed was possible, so long as you just find a way to keep going.

Well done everyone and keep going!

@Breakingthrough my local bog standard non-London gym has classes at 6am every weekday morning. I don’t go to them but I imagine the people that do have a real feeling of community among themselves.

I have a PT at 7:30 am. That’s ludicrously early for me (night owl) but because it’s booked, I go. Rest of the week I aim to be at the gym at 7:45 latest. I whine and whinge about it but truth be told it’s just what I do now and don’t really overthink it.

@Breakingthrough No, these are in-person classes at various studios in Central London.

I like the quiet, I'm much more likely to do it if I get on with it - there's no opportunity to make excuses. As a runner my experience has always been better at 6 am, fewer people means less potential for harassment. You usually see the same few people out and about.

It means I start my day doing something just because I want to, everything else is work in one way or another. There's always a to-do list when I get from work and by the time that's done I can't be arsed going out again.

Are these live on an online platform @Crushed23?

Would love to join the early exercisers and have booked on to a yoga class next Weds at 6.45.
Usually I do a class on Fridays (day off) at 11ish but this does eat into other things I might want to do in the day.
I like the idea of getting exercise done early and not allowing yourself to make excuses not to go.
My favourite exercise is swimming but I often struggle to slot that around work and child commitments.

one of the barriers for me going out early to exercise is that my family are all light sleepers and I worry about waking them early. I think my husband would be woken up and get very grumpy about it.
Im also somebody who has to eat breakfast soon after getting up. So it would take some planning but not impossible I suppose!
Will try the early yoga class and see…

This is such a great thread!

I have not been a ‘seasoned’ early morning person BUT for the last few weeks I’ve been helping my son with his paper round every day.

I cover 4k running whilst he walks with the bag. It’s like a relay. I take it very seriously and yesterday we achieved a new PB 😂

Its A 630 start with no time for faffing. I’m really enjoying it. I will then do a gym class in the evening and long run at the weekends but my Mon-Fri paper round runs are now my new favourite regime!

I’m up at 6 and do HIIT on apple fitness M,W,F or out for a 45 minute walk the other days. I’ve done it for about 15 years now. Still a fat bastard though.

My mum is up at 5 and runs 7 miles every single day. She’s in her 70s.

No real secret here, except that growing up on a farm everything starts early! I'd never know anything different, and now I use that early start for exercise. Luckily DH is from a similar background, so we've always had that in common.

Don’t overthink it. Just keep your workout clothes handy. In fact I’d put them on first thing before you have coffee while you’re still 1/2 asleep. Many a workout happened for me because I was changing into my work clothes out of sleepy habit. By the time I realized what I had done I would just shrug and say might as well I’m already dressed.

I'm working on building a daily meditation habit right now and I think the fundamentals are the same. If I waited to feel like doing it, I'd never do it; I just had to make a decision that I was doing it most days, come rain or come shine, and doggedly stick to that until it becomes something I miss if I stop.

Yup, early exerciser here 👋
Daily success and consistency starts the day before!
Getting up early is really easy if you ate at a reasonable time and went to sleep early the previous night! It’s bloody hard if you sat up late watching a film eating chocolate and drinking wine… so the choices you today determine how tomorrow will pan out ime.

You are me. Don’t sit down. Don’t look at your phone. Or it ain’t happening! 😂