If you exercise first thing in the morning do you literally get out of bed and immediately start exercising?

[OhioOhioOhio]

Apart from probably going to the toilet. I used to walk each morning. I now want to exercise from my house but can't seem to ever get round to it. I have an exercise bike. Do i change from my pjs first? Do i have breakfast first?

I can’t do a coffee first thing in the morning, it’s makes me want to have a poo about 10 mins later.

@PanGalaticGargleBlaster that's half the reason for a morning coffee! Needs to be done before exercise.

Up, coffee, brush teeth, loo, then exercise. I either run or choose YouTube yoga or bodycoach.

@PanGalaticGargleBlaster

That’s why you have the coffee! To stop you from pooing yourself midway through a run! 😂

I do sometimes run in the morning (well quite often as I do parkrun every Saturday). However, I have to eat something beforehand, and more to the point, drink something. Therefore I need to be up at least an hour before i want to run to give my food a chance to go down. Otherwise I will get a stitch.

So for example the other week the only time I could fit in a run was in the morning, so I got up about 7 and went out at 8.15 for my run.

I don't know how people get up and go straight out. No food is one thing but how do you manage with no hydration?

Alarm at 6, get straight up, quick shower, yoga gear, drive to work, park car, walk to studio, hour class from 7-8, walk to work, get changed, have a bowl of porridge.

At weekends I do a later class but never eat beforehand.

That’s why you have the coffee! To stop you from pooing yourself midway through a run!

That actually happened to me once, no coffee was imbibed prior to said run!

We’ve all been there!

We’ve all been there!

Well I was forced to unleash all sorts of pop mayhem into the bushes of the Thanes tow path when several miles into my run I got cramps and a 30 sec warning that I was going to involuntarily shit myself unless extreme measures were taken.

Pop = poo

Get out of bed, neck water and work out in the living room while my husband feeds the baby porridge

I have a rowing machine at home. I use it most mornings.

Generally exercise within 15 mins of getting up, otherwise i would start finding other things to do and then tell myself theres no time.

Wake, toilet, water, feed the cats so they don't bother me, then exercise.

I only do 15-20mins. So if I wake at 7am, faff, then row 7.15-7.30/35am, im then finished for the morning.
When I had to leave the house, I just never made it to the gym.

No, although I think it's the best practice.

I have a combination of coffee, some nuts an diet coke and then run around 9 after I get the kids off to school.

Weekdays - Alarm goes off, go pee, put on sports bra and a pair of pants and do a 20 minute workout and then dry body brush before my shower.

Weekends - alarm goes off, up, dress straight to the gym.

At weekends I get up, into running kit and straight out with the dog for a 5 km run. If I was using my cross trainer when I had one, I got up and straight on it in pyjamas as couldn't see the point in faffing around and getting changed.

So are none of you sleep deprived then?

What I mean is; if you are sleep deprived then isn’t it better to sleep for another 60 minutes than get up?

What I mean is; if you are sleep deprived then isn’t it better to sleep for another 60 minutes than get up?

If it’s a choice between 5 hours sleep and feeling like crap or 4 hours sleep and feeling amazing because I’ve had a big endorphin rush, I’d go for the latter every time.

I go to bed early! Or run anyway if I don't.

I get straight up at 540am on excercise days, get dressed, brush teeth and leave at 6am. If I am exercising indoors then I would put gym clothes on and go straight downstairs.

On days I don't exercise I struggle to get up and put the snooze on 10 times. Exercise days the alarm goes of and I just jump out of bed immediately, not because I am excited but because I know I wont bother if I don't!

I agree with starfish, I often only get about 5 or 6 hours sleep if I'm lucky but the days I do get up to exercise I feel so much better.

I used to get up, go to the loo, change in to running gear, run. Anything else and I would end up not going. I come back and shower, feed the cat say hello to DS and DH etc.

I usually in bed 10.30- 6.30-7am. So 8+ hrs sleep

@Barbeito I have a six month old, of course I'm sleep deprived. Exercise helps me to feel better about it though. That and coffee..

Not quite "exercise" in the gym way, but I have morning horse chores to do. I basically roll out of bed around 6:30, get dressed and head straight outside to do my jobs. Then come back inside, shower, dress, put on a load of washing and have breakfast.

Pre-kids I had just about enough motivation to do an AM workout at 6 4 or 5 times a week. I used to wear a fresh pair of leggings and a tshirt to bed every night and literally roll out of bed and downstairs to put the DVD on (30 day shred, whichever level I felt like but usually level 3 which I could now no way in hell complete which is awful!) I'd be done by 6:45, shower and drive to work at 7, then eat weetabix at my desk at 8. The combination of exercising first thing and the lag before eating really worked well. Combined with eating pretty well the rest of the day this was enough at age 25ish to keep me slim. I am just about to go back to work after maternity and I would love to get back into the same habits but sleep is currently veery minimal so I doubt I will have the motivation, plus it would mean a 5:40 getup to squeeze it in which would cut sleep even further. Let's see! I recommend clothes you can sleep and workout in, on cold mornings I wouldn't have done it if it meant getting changed first. Good luck!