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Can you BECOME a morning person?

Toff

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So, mornings... best kept well clear of me until ive had two coffees or you'll storm off to work thinking Im a jerk...as the missus does most days


Will I EVER become a morning person? She's up at 5am walking the dog, I just cant get out of bed

Ive tried ZMA/magnesium/ l-dopa but im a zombie until 8 hours later and two hours to wake up walking....


Any supplements that could help? techniques? Im even going to bed at 9:30pm and still cant get up.
 
Try getting a sleep cycle app it analyses your sleep pattern using you microphone and wakes you up at you lightest point of sleeping, tries to wake you up after a R.E.M. Cycle so you may feel more refreshed! It works for me.
 
The 3 basics....
•Redbull
•A motherf%#k ton of coffee
•bang some screw! Lmfao
Well, for me thats how i get my mornings going lmfao i dont like to encourage most of my habits haha but get yourself plenty of sleep (thats where the growing goes on) and it helps me to drink a tall glass of water before sleep so i gotta piss like hell when i wake up haha then drink another tall glass before ya leave the house and do as ya do. Try different routines, find what works for ya, and run with it like Usain Bolt!! Lmfao
Best of luck to ya hoss!
 
Start a good sleeping routine,i always recommend this when people come in and ask for sleeping pills, go to sleep and wake up almost @ the same time everyday, it will get your body into a constant circadian rhythm. Also try to minimise the stims in the morning
 
Yes, for sure.

  • Stop staying up late is number 1. ---->>> get your **** done so you have an 1hr to wind down before bed.
  • Aim for 7-8 hours of sleep ----> 6 works for some people. See what sleep amount you respond to most.
  • Set your alarm clock away from your bed so you have to get up to turn it off. -----> Once you are able to adjust a bit, you can start leaving it closer.
  • Turn on all the lights or go to a well-lit room, don't sit in a dark bedroom. ----> you will get sleepy...fast
  • Turn some music on
  • Eat/Get some coffee in you (light/healthy breakfast)/drink a cup or 2 of water
  • Wake up with a plan so you have a reason to get out of bed ----> one of the more important ones. If you have something to do, you will feel like you need to get up. Make a list of **** to get done the night before, or find something to motivate you!
 
Man good post....I'm just a fukin night owl and have never been able to be a morning person...34 here and yea it's been a bit of a problem on life in general...I've come to dislike "morning people" lol
 
Yeah it aint fun. I had to make the adjustment to waking up at 3-4am 6 years ago straight outta HS! haha it's easy at first but when you work 12+hrs a day and you only get roughly 5-6hrs of sleep it whoops your ass! Lmao but starting a good rythm always helps!
 
Kids are a definite way of making you a morning person, lol. I started going to bed earlier, and found AM lifting/cardio really helps get me going. I'll get up at 545 every morning now for the most part, and lately haven't even needed a stim pwo, the workout is enough to kick start myself. Sucks at first but once acclimated to it, it's really nice
 
nicksox15 said:
Kids are a definite way of making you a morning person, lol. I started going to bed earlier, and found AM lifting/cardio really helps get me going. I'll get up at 545 every morning now for the most part, and lately haven't even needed a stim pwo, the workout is enough to kick start myself. Sucks at first but once acclimated to it, it's really nice
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Same here. I never use an alarm and spring out of bed now at 6am 7 days a week. I love mornings now and if I sleep in I feel like I missed a good part of the day. I wake up before my kids almost every day.
 
I've always been a morning person. How I became that way? I don't ever stay up past 10pm and I wake up at 5 everyday
 
DUbz86 said:
Only way I'm a morning person is a strong pwo before gym
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This. I get up early as 1am, usually 2 though (I start work at 5 or 6am usually). The pre-workout is pretty vital.

It's worth it to me to wake up early and avoid the crowd at the gym, and the morning workout feels good, gets me going for the day. I found that if I didn't lift early that I'd drive straight home after work and miss workouts.

I wasn't always a morning lifter though, but I transformed into one because it was the best option for me. You need to have enough good reasons to train early and then it becomes pretty easy.
 
38 and was always an owl. With work and kid I adapted. Now I wake up early even at holidays. Wife? Wont ever adapt I guess. Besides, she needs at least 7hours of sleep to be functional while I can get by with 4-5h.
 
36 here,
I go to bed 9:30-10:30pm each day - ive got the new fitbit charge2 with sleep monitoring, iand i can definately see the difference in days i sleep well and those i dont but i stil ldont know how to manipulate that type of rest the next day

maybe its an age thing and ill never be a morning person- just cant get out of bed to get the coffee or PWO id need to get up

If my mind is busy though, im up and alert so maybe i need alist of things to do before i go to bed then ill go "sh*t! need to get up"
 
For me its mental. If I'm passionate about something (goal, hobby, etc...) it tends to wake me up and get me going, along with coffee. When I was younger, getting up was he hardest thing in the world to do. Now, I look forward to my morning coffee.
 
Admin said:
For me it mental. If I something I'm passionate about (goal, hobby, etc...) it tends to wake me up and get me going, along with coffee. When I was younger, getting up was he hardest thing in the world to do. Now, I look forward to my morning coffee.
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Yep, I was going to add this into my original comments as it can be as little as enjoying taking the dog on a run in the morning or just going outside to have a cup of coffee in the morning sun. I love going out on the back patio as the sun is coming up to have a cup of coffee to be by myself for a while before another crazy day sets in then taking the dog on a jog. I get home and everyone is just waking up but my day is already going.
 
Ah.. sunshine... what's that?

Im int he dim dark UK!

I wish i was in america id be up at 4am, its so easy on holiday aborad to get up early!
 
Toff said:
Ah.. sunshine... what's that?

Im int he dim dark UK!

I wish i was in america id be up at 4am, its so easy on holiday aborad to get up early!
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Haha "holiday" idk that made me laugh. I love cultural difference. If it wasn't for diversity the Earth would boring as fuk.
 
We made friends with a family from the UK while in Mexico a couple weeks ago and already made connections to go out and stay on their property in West Sussex at the end of summer.
 
I'm not a morning person. But I generally wake at 4:45 AM on the weekdays to train.

Didn't used to be that way, but for about 2 years now I've been doing it. There are days when you want to sleep/stay in bed. That never goes away. There are waves of stretches where you don't feel tempted to go back to sleep or hit snooze, but I've found they still exist. Basically, I know how great I feel post-lift. And even though sleep sounds good at the time, the extra 2 or 3 hours in bed never actually makes me feel better that day (unless I legitimately messed up and was short on sleep, in which case you catch up).

So, when the alarm goes off, I don't give my brain a chance to question it; I just roll out of bed. It sucks, but then once I'm up, I'm good. And when I'm done training at 7:30 AM and know once work is over my evening is wide open, it's an amazing feeling (in addition to being more energized all day).

So I think it's definitely possible, but don't think it doesn't still have its struggles. You just have to know what's most important.
 
Check out a book called Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. I absolutely hate self help books, but this one is pretty good about putting together a routine that will make you a morning person.
 
I worked as a baker for 10 years. 3am starts. I made the lifestyle changes (early bed times) and I adapted to a degree but it's certainly not my natural circadian rhythm and at the end of each day I'd always be far more tired than had I worked a full day starting at say 6am. That's regardless of how much sleep I'd get. If I'm on an extended holiday with none of lifes pressures I wake up around 6-7 am regardless what time i go to bed. I've found that is homeostasis for me. I agree you can "manage" to be early morning person with lifestyle changes but perhaps like me there will always be a natural rhythm you're most comfortable in. Hours between which you are most alert and most productive are worth striving for IMO.
 
I used to be the same way as you until I started working in the operating room. I'm forced to wake up at 4am to get to work on time. Once you are forced to get up, over a period of time it becomes a habit. At least for me it has. Saturday's when I can sleep in, I find myself alert and awake ready to go at the latest 7am.
 
I don't think you can make yourself a morning person permanently if you've been a night owl your whole life. I worked for Royal Mail for 2 years, up at 4:00am 6 days a week, had other jobs were I've started early but always fall back into the same pattern again when I'm not forced to get up early. I just have more energy at night it's my natural state.
 
In agreement with others, you need to recalibrate you internal clock by setting a schedule. Is there a certain reason you want to be a morning person?
 
APC80 said:
I don't think you can make yourself a morning person permanently if you've been a night owl your whole life. I worked for Royal Mail for 2 years, up at 4:00am 6 days a week, had other jobs were I've started early but always fall back into the same pattern again when I'm not forced to get up early. I just have more energy at night it's my natural state.
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Everybody is different. I worked nights for some time and my body adjusted. Now I'm working days waking up at 4am and on the weekends (when I don't work) I naturally wake up at 7am feeling I just slept 12 hours.
 
So I didn't feel like making another thread, as it kinda fits this thread. But I got a question. So I've pretty much ALWAYS been a morning person. Naturally waking up around 550ish and sleeping in is 645ish for me. Also I usually easily wake up early(like 3:15ish) if I have something to do; like homework. But for the last month I can't get out of bed before 7 even then I'm dragging ass all day. Any ideas of why? It's not like I'm staying out late or anything.
 
rtmilburn said:
So I didn't feel like making another thread, as it kinda fits this thread. But I got a question. So I've pretty much ALWAYS been a morning person. Naturally waking up around 550ish and sleeping in is 645ish for me. Also I usually easily wake up early(like 3:15ish) if I have something to do; like homework. But for the last month I can't get out of bed before 7 even then I'm dragging ass all day. Any ideas of why? It's not like I'm staying out late or anything.
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Stress, hormonal changes, diet, recovery, injury, life ect. Literally could be anything, sleep is the strangest thing, sometimes I'll wake up at 5am fresh as a daisy but if I've had a really hard week at work I could sleep in till 12 on the weekend. There isn't much to mitigate it apart from following a routine and trying to stick to it ie. try go to bed around the same time and if your alarm goes off at 5, get up regardless of how you feel, force it upon yourself. My beliefs anyways.
 
Had your same problem till I decided that living in the morning was better than living in the night...unless you own a night club ofc..in that case the night is heaven...

Anyway when you just cant wake up early and cant fall asleep before 2 am there is only one solution...skip and entire night, play video games watch movies or caffeinate yourself then the following night just let yourself collapse at bed at 8pm, you will probably wake up at 8am the following morning.
From that point make an extra effort and wake up at 8 am for the following 10 days, this will help to fix your sleeping pattern.

Once you are there you can manipulate day by day by adding or removing up to half an hour, Its working for me and once it gets cold again a d1ckheads disappears from the streets late at night, I'll find a way to go to sleep at 11pm and wake up at 7.30

Trust me mate there is much more stuff to do before 10am than after 12pm even the people you meet is less annoying...unless of course you own a night club or better yet a strip one.

ps it helps to sleep in a cold room with no lights, not even the red dot from the tv.
 
I've recently gotten back to training at 5am (used to train at 4pm) and initially I was dragging but I've gotten into the routine of getting up at like 445am every day. What I did at first was set my alarm on my phone and put it on the other side of the room so I was force to get up and turn it off and since I was up it was easier to stay up and of course, pre workout.
 
I need a shower in the morning to wake me up. I like to play some tunes while I'm in the shower to get me motivated. If you want to take it to the next level they make soap with caffeine. Try taking a shower, jamming out, and bathing in caffeine... tell me that doesn't wake you up!
 
The best advice I can give is make sure you're getting enough sleep. If you're up at 6 am, it'll be best that you're asleep by 10 pm. It's a transition but it's more than worth it. Secondly, what worked for me was getting up as soon as my alarm went off (I placed my iPad that I use for my alarm in the other side of the room) and drinking a glass of water. If I snooze once, I'm miserable
 
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