Making commitment to the gym at 4am... Help...

CfromCA · 2019-02-22T15:22:03+00:00

I don't know that there is a hack for something that is, essentially, a will-power issue. I lift in my garage and during the summer months I get up at 3:30 to train before work. I'm usually in bed by 8:30-9:00 the night before.

You just have to make yourself do it, bud. A couple weeks and you'll be in the groove.

ValhallaWillCome · 2019-02-22T14:48:55+00:00

Go to bed earlier. You won’t fall asleep immediately so you are barely getting 6 hours of sleep with the schedule you have set for yourself. Not everybody is capable of this.

DangZagnut · 2019-02-22T14:44:59+00:00

Set the alarm and put it across the room so you have to physically get up to turn it off.

then stop doing that, and go to bed earlier.

Blissbynature · 2019-02-22T15:56:01+00:00

I used to work 12.5 hour days with a half hour commute each way and the only way I was able to get a 1 hour workout in was to do it immediately after getting home. No sitting down for a brief minute or making dinner. No driving to the gym. No doing it in the morning. Just forcing myself to do it right when I walked in the door and took my boots off.

I'm not saying a morning schedule won't work for you, but like others have said, it's more about picking a time and then forcing yourself to do it.

Also, with regular exercise you will get better quality rest with less hours of sleep so it basically completely balances out if you have to sacrifice some sleep to get your workouts in.

JayJayEcks · 2019-02-22T17:16:54+00:00

My gym is at home, in the gym, what most people might call a living room.

I work out 5 to 6 days a week. When it's convenient.

mgtower1 · 2019-02-22T15:36:22+00:00

drink two glasses of water before bed

ThaiEscapePlan · 2019-02-22T16:29:40+00:00

sounds very inefficient timewise.

My immediate advice:

go straight to work from the gym. (If your gym doesn't have a shower find one that does). No reason for you to go home between gym and work.

get a gym that is either close to your home or your work.

cut down your workouts. unless you are a professional bodybuilder, nobody needs to be in a gym longer than one hour. You will overtrain, lose gains and lose enthusiasm for going.

DT1726 · 2019-02-22T16:54:59+00:00

How about nofap? I found I need less sleep when abstaining. And put the alarm far away so you are forced to get out of your bed.

Older_Miggy · 2019-02-22T17:19:03+00:00

It's a habit that must be formed.

You're tired at night and tired in the morning. You're gonna have to get past one of them.

If I was you I'd go right after work, then try to be in bed by 9:30-10. Maybe take a sleep aid line melatonin to help. Then you're getting almost 8 hours sleep.

2019-02-22T17:53:53+00:00

Motivation will inevitably fail you. What you need is discipline. No matter how bad you don’t want to do it, do it anyway for 2 weeks straight.

You’ll be happier after having done it and it will become a routine.

Justacaveman444 · 2019-02-22T18:21:23+00:00

Research Decision fatigue

MortalJohn · 2019-02-22T20:33:17+00:00

Buy a heater with a timer, sweat youself out of bed.

Nikovelli · 2019-02-22T21:46:29+00:00

I’ve been lifting for 9 years and personally I feel you just gotta go when you’re feeling it. I go 5 days a week and it ranges from in the morning or in the evening. I never skip but I never tell myself I have to be there at a certain time for ‘muh discipline’.

tlaatonmai · 2019-02-23T12:46:49+00:00

Why are you avoiding gym thots? Take the sight in you dumb fuck, unless youre gay?

Title	Making commitment to the gym at 4am... Help...
Author	NeroDev
Upvotes	16
Comments	23
Date	February 22, 2019 2:41 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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