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Re: Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning

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Post by blackguardx »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #44
blackguardx wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have found that I am dead in the morning after a really hard day of rock climbing. Maybe it is because I am usually sore all over my body.

Climbing is different from typical gym workouts. It puts far more stress on your tendons than your muscles, and tends to exert injurious forces on your muscles when it does work on them. Tendons take longer to heal than muscles. Plus, most climbers have a series of rapid warm-up and cool-down cycles -- climb, stop, belay, climb, stop, etc. -- which doesn't get the heart rate going the same way that an extended aerobi…

I climb everything from 5 grades below my current level to one grade above. I have found that consciously maintaining good technique on the hard routes helps me out a lot. I don't believe in "redpointing," so I usually don't try to force myself up a really hard route that I'm having trouble on. That is how you get injured.

The soreness I get after climbing is the same kind of soreness I used to get during the first two weeks of a weight lifting routine. It is not tendon damage or severe muscle damage because it doesn't last more than a day.

Re: Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning

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Post by blackguardx »

tdavis wrote: post #26
blackguardx wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have found that I am dead in the morning after a really hard day of rock climbing. Maybe it is because I am usually sore all over my body.

My workout guarantees I am perpetually sore. It sucks for a couple weeks, but after a few months you get used to it and you actually do have more energy... though paradoxically require more sleep to recharge. As long as I hit the minimum number of hours, though, I feel like a million bucks.

I have been climbing for over a year. I still don't burst out of bed with energy in the morning.

Re: Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning

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Post by there »

thomaspaine wrote: post #37
paul7986 wrote: post #27

Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author? Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.

I used to do this when I had a desktop. I prefer waking up to Eye of the Tiger rather than annoying beeps. Now I generally use my iPhone, although the default selection of ringtones aren't much better. Actually, a cool app would be an alarm that plays music from your music library. iPhone apps are sandboxed so you couldn't do this directly, but maybe you could stream it from a remote file? Hmmm...

an iphone app would have to be running and not let the phone sleep to act as an alarm clock. this is why there are no such apps in the app store. forget to run it before you sleep and it'll never work.

Re: Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning

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Post by dlimeb »

josefresco wrote: post #39
comatose_kid wrote: post #14

Have young children.

Yeah I laughed when I saw the headline, thinking to myself "some people need tricks to get out of bed?, how silly". My daughters wake up at 6:30 every morning, that means I'm up too no matter what. Problem solved.

Same here, although I think there is a subtle distinction between "out of bed" and "awake".

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Post by Goladus »

1. Don't drink coffee, ever. Don't drink alcohol, or use any other drugs that mess with sleep.

2. Sleep in a room with lots of morning sunlight.

3. Don't use an alarm clock unless you have a hard deadline you absolutely can't miss.

4. Plan your day the night before, at least in your head.

5. Find a breakfast you enjoy.

Re: Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning

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Post by doctor »

gommm wrote: post #31
paul7986 wrote: post #27

Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author? Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.

I used to with software called awaken but I stopped ever since my macbook's fan started to spin all the time... I love silence when sleeping and fan noises go against that

Awaken is great, it gets me up every morning. You can put your Macbook to sleep and Awaken will wake it up, so you can have it turned off during the night. You can get it at http://www.embraceware.com/products/awaken/

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Post by krav »

drewcrawford wrote: post #9

Had to become a morning person this semester (early classes). My tactics are twofold: Coffee by the bed. Literally within about two feet. I'm a little crazy, so I've hacked my coffee machine together, but programmable store-bought stuff works too. iPhone by the bed. It's really bright, I hold it a few inches from my face and start going through my RSS reader. Gets my mind in gear and my pupils to contract.

I bought one of those pod coffee machines. Set it up next to my alarm clock. (In theory), when I stumble over to my alarm clock to shut it off, I just hit the button on the machine and my coffee is ready in 4 seconds.

Usually, by the time I get up to snooze it a second time, the coffee is sitting there, smelling all coffee-like (yummy). That's my Pavlovian trick.

Re: Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning

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Post by chime »

josefresco wrote: post #39
comatose_kid wrote: post #14

Have young children.

Yeah I laughed when I saw the headline, thinking to myself "some people need tricks to get out of bed?, how silly". My daughters wake up at 6:30 every morning, that means I'm up too no matter what. Problem solved.

I have the same problem with my wife. She wakes up at 5am!
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