This morning I accidentally slept in, I was planning a 14 mile run before work so I shoveled down a quick breakfast and 30 minutes after waking up I was out the door running. This was a terrible mistake; I was tight all over and had a horrible workout.
So my question is how long after waking up do you all exercise? I’m usually working out 1.25 - 1.5 hours after getting up in the morning. I also think it’s easier to swim or bike right after sleeping; the body just needs a little more wake up time for running.
20-30 minutes during the week. more on the weekends. it sounds like you might have eaten too big of a breakfast. i usually just do one piece of whole grain toast with a little almond butter and jelly. plus water and i’m good to go for almost any workout.
I do 90% of my running in the early morning, before 7:00 am. It’s up at 5:00, gel packet and a few sips of Gatorade (gel - only if the run is over 8 miles). I’m out the door by 5:45 - 6:00, the latest. I need 30 minutes, minimum, to “wake-up.”
With me, I can almost always run 20-30 minutes after waking without problems. A cup of joe then run run run. However, this all depends on my morning “movement”. Once I bomb Bagdad, I feel good to go, light as a feather. But some mornings take longer than others.
Takes me 30-45 minutes, depending on the length of run I’m planning and how quickly I can empty myself before heading out the door. Some days it takes longer…
For the longer runs I’ll not spend much time at all trying to loosen up before the run—I’ll use the first 15-20 minutes of the workout for that. If a shorter, more intense session is planned then I will take a few more minutes and do some stretching and loosening up.
I’m generally out the door within a half-hour of waking up. I can sometimes get out quicker than that, but I got to wait for the plumbing to get moving. I don’t usually eat anything or drink anything other than water unless I going for 12 or more.
I’m usually on the run or biking w/in 20-30 mins of waking. Depends on how large the “slow moving vehicle” triangle on my back feels that particular am
Less time is needed if it’s really early and I don’t hafta walk and feed the dog prior to departing. I don’t eat anything, usually only have 16oz or mebbe 32oz of water prior, then drop the kids off at the pool, put on my stuff (laid out the nite before) and get at it.
I guess either one gets used to it, or, some people just adapt to this sorta thing, and others don’t. Sometimes I don’t even feel all that great while doing the workout, and end up having a decent (sometimes surpisingly good) workout even tho I wasn’t ‘feeling it’ at the start.
For me, it is what it is. I don’t have the luxury of being awake for longer prior to working out, and don’t have the motivation to get up that much earlier just to have the extra lead time (which I have gotten used to not needing anyway).
All I need is about 20 min to brush teeth, stretch and dress. After doing this for several years, it’s easier for me to shake off the sleepy feeling than it is to shake off that stagnant feeling of having sat in my office cube all day.
I can be out of bed and out running within 5 minutes of waking up. Just give me time to put on clothes and shoes and go to the bathroom and I’m ready to go.
Get up between 5:30 and 6:00 am and out the door within 30 min. In those 30 minutes, I eat ~800 calories of oats and yogurt with ground flaxseed and a trip espresso and then take a dump. I walk for the first 2 min and then for the first 15-20 min its a 9-10 min per mile pace. After 20 min, the real workout starts when I ratchet it up to 8-6 min pace/hills etc etc. The minimum length of my runs are 90 min, 3 times a week, except for Ironman training when one run becomes 2 hours (or more in other years…not this year). The runs get shortened to 60 min if I have a race on the weekend.
If you find it takes you a long time to get going, then just hop on the trainer/rollers for 10 min and warm up the legs and you will be good to go. This is what I do in the winter as it is often minus 10 to minus 20 C outside and it would take my body 30 min to “warm up” shuffling at 10 min per mile
That question reminds me of one of my favorite Rodney Dangerfield jokes. He starts out by saying he doesn’t understand the two minute warning in football. So there’s two minutes left. So what? He then says that the other night he was in bed with this girl. Her cell phone goes off. It’s her husband. He was calling to say that he was two minutes away. Now THAT’S a two minute warning!
So I guess in answer to your question - two minutes.
Alarm goes off at 4.45am…up by 4:55am…dressed, piepes cleaned out and outside and on the road by 5:05am…sometimes I stop for a quick piece of bread and drink of water/gatorade depending on the length of run.
10-15 minutes. I get up as early as 3:15 and as late as 4:30 to get my runs in before work. Out of bed, use the toilet, brush my teeth, get dressed, grap a sports drink and then out the door. Wake up on the run
Up at 5:45am, do 5 minutes of light stretches, guzzle some Gatorade, take a quick dump, on the road by 6:10am at the latest. I walk for a couple minutes, then slow pace for the first mile at least, then pick it up. My “fast” pace is 8:30 per mile though!
Usually about 30 minutes, but sometimes as little as 15 minutes. I don’t eat anything, but usually drink a glass of OJ or gatorade and a glass of water before leaving. Once this summer, I overslept so really had to rush out to get my swim done, and I actually managed to get to the pool (5 minutes away) and finish a quick 2000 or 2500 yard workout within 1 hour of waking up.
