I don't know about you, but I'm not a fan of the morning time. I would much rather snuggle with my blankets and lay in my warm bed until 9am every day if I could. Unfortunately, I have 3 different alarm clocks that prevent me from doing so: my phone, my son, and my husband snoring! Then there's that regular thing called work that really forces me to get out of bed 5 days a week. Ugh, I hate when that happens :-/. Lucky for me I'm able to function on very little sleep...well, as long as there's an IV set up to pump me full of coffee for the rest of the day lol!
Now more than ever I'm going to have to rely on my favorite caffeine friend. I've recently decided that I'm going to try and become a morning person ::gasp::. Even though my mornings are already filled with craziness as of 6:30am, I love the feeling of having something accomplished before my "regular" day begins. This year I've made a huge commitment to myself that I'm going to keep up a regular work out routine through out the entire year. With the way my schedule sits as is it's almost impossible to find the time or energy to squeeze it in any time after I get home from work. My only other option is to do it in the morning ::gulp::. Well, I guess here goes nothing.
This week I've put in some serious effort to try and make it work. Tuesday I woke up 20 minutes before my first alarm typically goes off and did a quick 15 minute video work out. I felt so exhausted for the remainder of the day that I could have sworn someone had sewn bricks onto my eyelids! Wednesday and Thursday I did some stretching and rested since I felt as though I'd pulled something. This morning I planned to do a little more of an actual work out. Thankfully I made myself go to bed around 8:30-9pm the night before so I'd get plenty of rest. I set my first alarm to go off at 5:10am to encourage me to get my butt out of bed. The next one went off at 5:20 to start my work out, then one at 5:50, one at 6:10, another at 6:35, a sixth alarm at 7, then finally the last one at 7:20. They might not have all been necessary, but they definitely kept me on schedule to be out the door on time (I was even a little bit early)!
Today is a fairly slow day at work so it hasn't been too rough on me, but we'll see how I'm feeling at 8 tonight after little man goes to bed. I'm hoping with lots of practice and repetition that my internal clock will adjust, and it will come naturally for me to wake up early so that I can get my work out in. For everyone who already is a morning person, kudos to you! For those that aren't, that's ok too. We can't all be chipper at the butt crack of dawn. ;) Remember you can do anything you put your mind, motivation, and energy towards.
Here are some of my favorite motivational photos/quotes that get me going (or just laughing).
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