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Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by MRD85 »

emiranda wrote: post #25

I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year). I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I…

I'm a very busy person when uni semester is live. I work 45 hours per week, I have my kids about 65% of the hours that I'm not at work and it leaves me about 20 hours per week to maintain my house, do jobs and complete what is meant to be 30 hours of prescribed university work. My secret is going to sleep at 8pm and waking up at 4am to get uni work done. I'm refreshed and I tend to be far more productive than if I do work at night.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by pragmatic »

LawnboyMax wrote: post #146
emiranda wrote: post #25

I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year). I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I…

I heard this "energy boost" point many times and never understood it. I tried waking up at 5 AM for a morning workout for a year (with proper 8-9 hour sleep at night) and I would always feel tired for the remainder of the day, especially for a few hours right after the workout. Maybe this depends on the type of a workout. I was doing mostly powerlifting with heavyish postworkout meals. I am now working out a few hour…

Same. My wife does it so she talked me into it when I switched jobs and had to start work at 8 am.

I was miserable. I finally decided just to do the gym on my lunch when possible. Much better.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by AngryData »

war1025 wrote: post #92
FPGAhacker wrote: post #79

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I do ok with 7. I’d sleep longer but my back starts to hurt if I’m in bed too long. I get up at 5am to avoid traffic.

I switched to a futon-style very firm mattress several years ago. Now any time we go out of town my back feels miserable in the morning. I honestly don't know why people subject themselves to the torture that is the modern box-spring mattress. I think people would have much less back issues if they spent the two weeks it takes to sleep on a firm surface. Its all about learning to actually distribute your weight acros…

Best bed I ever had was a 10 inch futon mattress placed on top of a decent air mattress, using an old quilt to protect the air mattress from anything poking it.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by camgunz »

telchar wrote: post #114
war1025 wrote: post #92

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I switched to a futon-style very firm mattress several years ago. Now any time we go out of town my back feels miserable in the morning. I honestly don't know why people subject themselves to the torture that is the modern box-spring mattress. I think people would have much less back issues if they spent the two weeks it takes to sleep on a firm surface. Its all about learning to actually distribute your weight acros…

That's great if you sleep on your back but side-sleepers aren't going to be happy on a hard mattress, the shoulder becomes a single point of contact with the bed. I'm not convinced that people accustomed to sleeping in one orientation can easily change to the other. Although I would be curious if anyone has anecdotes about that.

I'm a side sleeper with an "ultra firm" mattress and soft mattresses mess up my whole alignment. I never get sore shoulders or hips, even if I sleep all day like I recently did. I can also reliably switch to back sleeping, which I usually do when I'm sick because of congestion.

It's all anecdata, but I think people are just different.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by therealchiko »

LawnboyMax wrote: post #146
emiranda wrote: post #25

I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year). I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I…

I heard this "energy boost" point many times and never understood it. I tried waking up at 5 AM for a morning workout for a year (with proper 8-9 hour sleep at night) and I would always feel tired for the remainder of the day, especially for a few hours right after the workout. Maybe this depends on the type of a workout. I was doing mostly powerlifting with heavyish postworkout meals. I am now working out a few hour…

Exactly the same thing I realized. Working out in the morning actually drained me of energy for the day and made me super sleepy instead. Running though, has the different effect and made me feel a whole lot more fresher and ready to tackle the day. So i guess it depends with each person what activity you do in the morning to get your body ready.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by madiathomas »

emiranda wrote: post #25

I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year). I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I…

This is the technique I used and the reasoning was the same. I can safely switch off my phone and leave it at home in the morning and focus on working out because no-one is going to call me at 5am. Also, no-one is going to arrange a meeting with me at that time of the day.

After having some success in the gym using this technique, I decided to try it for my studies. I enrolled for a 3-year IT qualification and managed to finish it in record time while working a full-time job and running a profitable side project.

I was doing 5 modules every semester. Every weekday when I wake up, first thing I did, was taking a shower and study for an hour, then go to work. I was studying just one module per day.

This year, I am planning to study further using same technique. I always recommend this technique for people who think they don't have time to do X. The best time to do X is always first thing in the morning when there are no distractions.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by zwayhowder »

jen729w wrote: post #115
hexo wrote: post #23

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I'm unemployable just because of this. I cannot "work" in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.

Okay so hear me out here. You can change. It’s not hard. I am the owliest of owls. All my life, I’ve been up till 2am and struggled to get out of bed, snooze the alarm, last minute, dash through the shower, hurry to work, no time to think, sit down guiltily at 9:01am. I hated that morning rush but whatever, “that’s just who I am”. Now, I’m 42, so maybe age makes this easier. But my girlfriend is an early riser, and s…

Had to check this wasn't an alt account I didn't remember creating. This is me. Everyone complains I turn up to standup at 10am eating. For me I've been awake for 5.5 hours and had breakfast 5 hours ago, I'm hungry alright.

It took me a long time to get in the rhythm for this, the first few weeks I slept in more than I like to admit, and mostly it was because I couldn't admit I needed to go to bed closer to 9pm than midnight. Once I got into that habit the rest falls into place.

Now it's not unusual for me to roll into bed after a night out at 3am and at 4.30 or 5am I'm awake and having an argument with my body about what time I'm getting out of bed.

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Post by scns »

lostdog wrote: post #130
jen729w wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay so hear me out here. You can change. It’s not hard. I am the owliest of owls. All my life, I’ve been up till 2am and struggled to get out of bed, snooze the alarm, last minute, dash through the shower, hurry to work, no time to think, sit down guiltily at 9:01am. I hated that morning rush but whatever, “that’s just who I am”. Now, I’m 42, so maybe age makes this easier. But my girlfriend is an early riser, and s…

Like a lot of well-meaning advice, this did not work for me. Getting up at 5am or 6am for a few weeks just means I feel tired all the time for a few weeks, and it just takes me a couple days to (gratefully) revert back to the night-owl schedule my body wants to keep. The scientific evidence keeps showing that there are many people who are more alert at night, but of course morning people and morning converts seem to…

The body needs 2 Werks to adjust to a New schedule

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Post by sAbakumoff »

emiranda wrote: post #25

I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year). I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I…

what kind of gym opens 5am.
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