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Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by notesinthefield »

It changes depending on season, right now its winter where I am.

Wake up and go to the garage to warm up the gym - the average temp is around 20F in the AM so it takes ~40 minutes to get to a comfortable temperature.

Make coffee, let dogs out, take meds and supps. Im making a serious effort to step away from social media so ill listen to NPR instead while thinking about what I need to do that day or knocking out quick chores. I dont eat breakfast on workdays.

Train for 1-2 hours.

My first work meeting starts around 9-930.

On the weekends or holidays my spouse and I cook breakfast together and talk.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by foobarian »

22:00 previous day: prepare drip coffee machine and schedule for 6:50 next morning

7:00-7:30 pour coffee, get dressed, wake up, side project time

7:30-8:00 breakfast with kid, drop off at school

8:00-16:00 work with stretch breaks and lunch break

16:00-17:00 side project time

17:00-bedtime dad mode (h/t to other poster who used this phrase)

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by PeterWhittaker »

Up anywhere from 6 (well, poop) to 8 (yes!). Wander into kitchen, turn on coffee maker, take out mouth guard, swap out yesterday's cup for a clean one, make sure cup is right side up, hit the double espresso sequence (paying close attention because the x2 button is too close to the power button for my stunned, spastic, uncaffeinated mind and fingers), pee, take coffee and phone to garage, smoke as little as possible, head to living room, finish coffee while playing word games (dordle, wordle, the mini, zorse, octordle, hurdle), check HN, various news sites, poop, have first breakfast, greet dog of joy, wipe him down, feed him, walk him (20 minutes if I have meetings or other reasons to get home sooner, an hour or more otherwise, unless it is so cold he cuts it short (anything under -15C and the odds of that are even; -30C and might turn around at the end of the driveway)), have second breakfast.

Now the day can begin.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by TuringNYC »

** WFH Days **

Woken up ~6:30 since kids need to get to bus-stop at 7 and 8am.

8am-9am Cardio (3days) Weights (2days)

9am-6pm Work

Lunchtime - Interval Training

6pm-9pm Kids/Family

9pm-10pm Spouse Time

10pm-1am Upskilling, Personal coding projects

** RTO Days **

Woken up ~6:30 since kids need to get to bus-stop at 7 and 8am.

4 hours R/T D2D on CommuterTrain+Subway

  2hrs on Commuter Train -- either sleeping or Udemy courses on iPad

  2hrs wasted time (driving, parking, waiting, subway, walking) - Podcasts, mix of uplifting and doom/gloom
YT podcasts

8pm-9pm Kids

9pm-10pm Spouse Time

10pm-midnight Too tired to do anything else: Doomscrolling YouTube, Laundry, Cleaning

My Github chart is zebra -- most commits and activity are on WFH days while office days are for collaboration/meetings. The more exercise i do the better my productivity and commit charts.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by PaulHoule »

dominicrose wrote: post #38

Not a morning person. I stay in bed for 45min then (prepare myself + eat breakfast) in 10min then leave for work. When I was out of a job I used to walk in the forest. I made and received calls from it and found a job. By doing (the things that felt bad) outside of my appartment they stopped feeling bad.

When my evil twin was out one summer I would get up with the sun and walk maybe 6 miles in the woods and still start work at 9am. Then I'd go home and walk another 6 miles before sunset. And go the gym in the middle of the day and some evenings too.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by bsuvc »

diob wrote: post #27

Oh man I would not call this constructive, keep in mind I have ADHD. I wake up. I make some coffee. I then make a smoothie with spinach, banana, and whatever other fruits for breakfast. During this time I hopefully remember to take my medication. If it's a workday I'll then go and do some work. If not, I'll probably start organizing. I'm bad at relaxing.

> During this time I hopefully remember to take my medication.

I have a recurring reminder on my phone and find that it helps keep me on track for this.

I'm not used to taking medicine and only started a couple months ago, so found that I can easily forget without it.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by PaulHoule »

mandalorianer wrote: post #25
softwaredoug wrote: post #24

Wake up. High protein breakfast. Strength training for an hour. More protein. Shower. Walk the dog. Meditate. Work.

Try not to eat before the training. You will be suprised about the positive effect. Just water. Breakfast after training.

There are many theories about weight training but the practice is that you have to lift a certain volume of heavy weights. I think it is the same with protein.

There was a study that said you got better results if you drink a protein shake and then work out. So that became standard advice for a decade, then somebody did a study where they gave people the shake before or during or after the workout and it was all good.

Some people have GERD and other problems if they eat too soon before a workout. When I was in my late 40s my digestion became more sensitive and I found I could not eat so much before I had to go to the gym. Working out hungry might train your ability to burn fat, but many people can't sustain hard workouts if they're too hungry. Serious athletes like Micheal Phelps who train hard all the time have a hard time eating enough to support all the training they do so it is no wonder he became a spokesperson for a proton pump inhibitor.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by idopmstuff »

Used to be: - Wake up naturally between 5-6 (usually closer to 5) - Drink coffee and do the NYT Crossword - Read news (Bloomberg and Axios emails) - If it's warm weather (I live in San Diego, so 75% of the year), run 2.5 miles or do 20 minutes of weights (if cold, running gets moved to later when it's warm enough to run) - Knock off some easy stuff on my to-do list (if I exercise and just do a few productive things early in the day, I tend to be highly productive and in great mental health) - Eat breakfast (usually scrambled eggs with veggies)

By now it's about 9am, so when I was working I'd usually have standup.

Now, with toddler (and currently pregnant wife in the throes of morning sickness who can't do nearly as much as usual as a result): - Wake up between 5-6am - If I wake up before toddler, slam coffee and try to poop in peace before he wakes up. When he wakes up, get him out of crib, change and feed him. - If I wake up to the sound of toddler screaming because he is awake, get out of bed, change and feed him. Desperately try to finish a cup of coffee and poop before he is done with bottle. Probably fail at this and put on an episode of Bluey so I can poop in peace. - Entertain toddler until wife texts me that she is awake. Bring her coffee in bed. Make sure to do this without toddler seeing, so he does not rush in behind me. - When wife gets up, try to be productive and/or eat. - Exercise whenever I can. - Be grateful that I now own a business that mostly does not require a ton of work unless I'm making an acquisition. - Question how I could have lived like this if I were working full time.

My morning was always my favorite time, when I could start my day off just right mentally and physically. My child has stolen that time from me. I love him from the depths of my soul and would give up my well-being for him for the rest of my life if I had to. But hey I know teenagers don't get out of bed at 5am so I'll probably get my morning back at some point!

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by SoftTalker »

jjice wrote: post #11
joehx2 wrote: post #6

Wake up. Pee. If it's Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, weigh myself. Get breakfast ready for my kids. A banana, half a fiber bar, and a cup of milk. Start my coffee. Nothing special, just an old school coffee maker that uses a standard filter. Three cups of water and three spoonfuls of coffee grounds. Make my oatmeal. A quarter cup of oats and a half cup of water. Put it in the microwave for two minutes. Eat breakfast w…

Interested in weighing frequency. I was recently eating in a caloric surplus to aid in muscle gain and I didn't weigh myself super frequently, but as I'm coming up on a cut that'll be a bit harder for me, I'm interested in why you've personally chosen 3 days a week.

Weight variances from one day to the next are mostly just water. There's not a lot of point in weighing more than a few times a week.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by sibit »

5am I go for a 2 mile run with my dog

When I get home I start a pot of coffee

Shower

If it's a work from office day I leave for work at 5:45 (~15 minute drive)

1-2 hours of reading HN, twitter, blogs

I grab my sticky note pad and I create a checkbox list of 3-5 things I want to accomplish

I start working through the list

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