Currently I usually arrive at the gym Between 4 and 7 PM, sometime after work.

You are probably best served going straight between work and the gym in the evening or gym to work in the morning.

I had trouble with AM workouts until I increased my breakfast, and added a small post workout meal when I got to the office, then I wasn't a problem. A few months ago I was going in the morning before work until my work schedule changed.

My regular routine is a hour long boot camp on Monday evenings with the wife. Three hours of martial arts training from 6 to 9 on Tuesday and Thursday, and usually something on Saturday morning (boot camp or kick boxing).

Damn, I knew it. Get a rope!

AggieOO said:

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Depends on the day. Sometimes early morning, sometimes evening, sometimes mid-day.

Sometimes multiple times a day.

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Same.

Usually I just get the urge and I go.

Typically is running/biking in the morning. Lifting in the PM.

If I'm running solo, usually start around 630 or 7am. If i'm running with people its 5am or 7pm.

I get up at 4:15 AM when I need to go to my office; On those days, I run 2-2.50 miles through my subdivision. If I need to fly somewhere, I might get up earlier and do the same thing. If I work from my house, I get up at 5:00 and do the same mileage. This happens M-TU-WED-THUR-FRI.

In the evening, if I am in town, I will lift four times a week and spin three times a week. Lifting will last 30/35 mins and spinning at least 30 mins. If out of town, I will run for approx. 30 mins in the hotel parking lot and usually I am out of town 2-3 nights a week.

On Saturday, I get up at 5:55, then, subject to our game schedule, I will lift from 8-8:45 then spin from 9:00- 9:30. If I don't get caught up in other stuff, I will run 2-3 miles before I go to the gym and workout.

On Sunday, I get up at 5:55, then relax the whole day, except leave for church at 8:00 AM. If it is summer, I float around in my pool listening to music and sipping "Dad's Fabulous Pool drink."

When I was lifting, I was at the gym at 4:00 a.m.

Now that I'm running, usually right after work, or weekend mornings. It's dark when I leave for work, so I don't want to go before.

Up at 5am. Gym by 6am. Work by 7:45am.

I honestly love my morning routine. It's really the only time I get to myself. Most people think they need 8 hrs of sleep. They are wrong.

Weekdays 5am or lunch (if I am working from home and lifting). Weekends 5am. Get the work done before anyone wakes up so we can do whatever. Working out first thing lets you get it knocked out so you don't have an excuse of something pops up during the day

Up at 4:30am 7 days a week normally

Ok i'll Be the one to ask. Why 5:55 instead of 6:00?

I ride a road bike and I have to drive to get to my starting point. So mornings don't work for me with my morning schedule. So I ride late afternoon after work.

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Ok i'll Be the one to ask. Why 5:55 instead of 6:00?

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Strategery

Why $9.99 instead of $10.00?

I've got three kids between 5-8 so it is pretty difficult to find time, so i do a lot of workouts during lunch at work. It helps tremendously that we have a small gym at work and showers, plus my boss is really into triathlons so he understands if i have some extended lunches. Other than running (Mon. and Wed.) and swimming (Tues. and Thurs.) during lunch, I usually get up early for a bike ride on Saturday and a run afterwards. If i have no other obligations during the week i try to get in another ride and some strength training here and there.

Alarm goes off at 5:10 am. On the treadmill by 5:25 am. Showered and home by 7:00 am ready to help get the kid ready for school.

Some of y'all are pretty savage.

RG20 said:

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Good God

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I should've added it helps that I have a big home gym, and the refinery I work at 10 min. away has a gym as well, so I don't have the travel time to and from for gym time. I can immediately do my morning session at home, and then get in my afternoon session immediately after my shift before leaving the plant to come home.

Workout from 5:00-6:00am Monday-Friday. The first couple weeks suck but then it becomes normal. Now I feel off during the day if I miss a morning workout.

I wouldn't consider myself a morning person, getting up at 5am for me requires going to be by 10. Not feasible most nights. I can do 6 or 630 pretty easily. I have a few running friends that routinely get up at 4 and are usually done before I'm even awake.

Similar situation as the OP with time commitments, so early morning is it for me.

It isn't fun, and my failure to get out of bed rate will rise along with the stress level from work, family, etc, but the more you make it the routine and make it a point to stop thinking about how much better it would feel to sleep more, the easier it gets. It takes discipline that ebbs and flows with me personally.

This is my thing I tell myself, when the alarm goes off at 4:30, yes, it sucks, but when it goes off at 6:00, it still sucks, and you have no time to work out.

Alarm at 5:30am.

Indoor spin (Peloton) from 5:45am - 6:30am

Shower, dogs, kids... out the door at 7:25am. In the office at 8:00am

Repeat.

up at 5:15
feed baby #2 while wife feeds #1
Drop kids off at daycare 6:30
Work 7:15ish
Swim 1000 meters around 11:30 or so
Work until 4:30
Gym 5:30-6:30 or so to lift
Feed babies 7 pm, bed at 8
Maybe get 6-12 miles in on Zwift
Make dinner
eat and watch TV
maybe a night cap and cigar

Usually do 2 of the workouts in a day, 3-4 times a week.

Saturday and Sunday is 6:15 am run 6.5 miles.

Today i did 20 minutes on zwift since i am home with a sick baby. Maybe do another 20 here in a bit.

The Pilot said:

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I wouldn't consider myself a morning person, getting up at 5am for me requires going to be by 10. Not feasible most nights. I can do 6 or 630 pretty easily. I have a few running friends that routinely get up at 4 and are usually done before I'm even awake.

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I'm definitely not a morning person. That said, I'm up at 4:45 on Wednesdays and 5a on Saturdays for team workouts. It's a struggle every single time.

Get up between 4 and 5 most days including weekends. Monday's I get to sleep in until 6am. Tri training with a young one means you have to really want it.

M-F Up at 4 at the gym at 5 for 45 minutes or cardio and 45 minutes of weights
Saturday - rest day (conveniently coincides with college football)
Sunday - Gym opens at 8 - same routine as above.

As said above I love starting my day this way.

Never once have I walked out of the gym thinking, "Man I shouldn't have gone to the gym" but ALWAYS say, "man I SHOULD have gone to the gym" on the very rare day I don't.

Looks like most of you get it done in the morning. Any tricks to get you up and going that early? I have tried putting alarm in another room to make myself get out of bed but I always ended up turning it off and went back to sleep in some if those days. Again, the part I hated was that it made my days feel so long.