Six Weeks to a Early Morning Workout! Part 1

Ok, we are seven days into the new year now. Did you make a resolution to start waking up at 5 or 6 am to get your workout in? Have you hit the snooze button every morning since the start of the new year, fully sabotaging your resolution efforts? You can't just decide that tomorrow you are going to wake up a full hour or hour and half earlier than you did the previous week and go to the gym or run five miles. Your body and mind will revolt.

Follow my easy plan and you will be waking up an hour earlier fully energized and ready to go for your morning work out in 6 weeks.

Week One: Start Slow
Set your alarm 10 minutes earlier than your normal waking time. When the alarm goes off, get out of bed! Get out of bed! It's only 10 minutes earlier than the day before. You can do this! Now, go somewhere where you can play some soothing music. Don't change out of your pjs, get on the floor and stretch. Focus on stretching and waking up your mind. Check out this website for a demonstration and pictures of stretches you should be performing. Be sure and breath deeply.

Stretching is an important part of any fitness routine. By increasing your flexibility, you should be reducing your chance of injury.

After your 10 minute stretch you should feel relaxed and ready to take on the day!

It's important that you follow this routing all week long. On the weekends, if you tend to sleep later, fine, but please set your alarm clock regardless for 10 minutes earlier than you would of the previous week. It's also important that you work on an evening routine so that you begin training yourself to go to bed earlier or on-time. In the long run, the only way this will be successful is if you are good at managing your evenings.

Next week: Adding 10 more minutes.