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Jamie
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What is your secret for beating the snooze button?

posted almost 3 years ago | Report

I have had some success with laying my clothes out the night before and setting the automatic coffee maker to brew so that I can have a cup before I set out...

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  • Nick R.
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    Any tips you have would help me. The snooze bar defeats me every time.

    posted almost 3 years ago | Report

  • Anna
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    I only recently started setting the coffeemaker up - great thing to get me out the door. But the way I beat the snooze button may seem counterproductive - get yourself a kid. I haven't found their snooze button yet and they are always up before me.

    posted almost 3 years ago | Report

  • Jamie
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    I have got a 17 month old so when I do run in the morning my goal is to get out before he wakes up!

    posted almost 3 years ago | Report

  • Jessica L.
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    Hiding the alarm clock or moving it out of arm's reach has always worked for me :-) Keep workout clothes ready that way you can stumble into them all bleary eyed. In the very very beginning when I first started my 5am wakeup calls I used to bargain with myself - food, a starbucks latte, new pair of sneakers, whatever works.

    And besides, once you're up and running, you wake up real fast anyway and you'll love the adrenaline rush it gives you to start the day.

    posted almost 3 years ago | Report

  • Nick R.
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    I'm going to have to try the clothes thing...As it is now I have to get up walk ten feet across the room to hit the snooze bar, and I can still do that for over an hour.

    posted almost 3 years ago | Report

  • Hunter C.
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    I am best if I wake up at the same time every day. That means getting up at 4:30 a.m. every day, either to swim or to run. Mondays are hardest for me because I sometimes let myself sleep in (7:00 a.m.) I get all out of whack and then it is really hard to get up.

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  • Katie G.
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    I do get up at the same time every day (4:30) and that seems to help. My body will even wake me up on my "off" day (Thursday). I also tell myself that I have to give it 10 minutes. If I am up and moving for 10 minutes and still don't feel like working out, I can call it quits. Well, usually after 10 minutes I am out the door half way to the Y.

    Another good analagy that I read Michelle Obama uses "if your job required you to get up at 4:30, or your kids needed you, you would get up. Why can't you put yourself on that priority list?"

    On a last, side, personal note....I know that I want to be swimsuit ready by the time I head to Grand Cayman for Thanksgiving. Tha'ts a hell of a motivator to get my butt moving!!

    posted almost 3 years ago | Report

  • Jessica L.
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    katie G, that Michelle Obama quote is great - and totally true. My run/workout time is "me" time when I can get my thoughts together and plan my day (or if I'm working out at night, time when I can exorcise all the craziness from my day). And when you're up that early it's so quiet out - I feel like I'm the only one up and out (probably am lol) it's very peaceful.

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    I can hear my Mom saying to me as a teenager "Just put your feet on the floor, the rest will follow". It works! Truly, no one can sleep deeper than I can, so when that buzzer goes my subconcious kicks in and it is just a reflex now, "Feet on the Floor"... Try it! I also set the radio to CBC first and 5 minutes later the buzzer goes.That may help, too.

    posted over 2 years ago | Report

  • Adam
    Adam Sendmail

    join a club or plan to meet a friend. Especially if its a fun group that will haze you incessantly for weeks at a time if you skip a run. That will get you out the door. Also, lay out clothes is very helpful. For example, it took me 3 tries to get out of the house this morning with a key AND my water AND my gu. The best motivator for me though is a solid goal. An upcoming race with a set time goal.

    posted over 1 year ago | Report

  • Deniz A.
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    I have my bedside lamp on timer, so it turn on about an hour before I need to wake up... just to get rid of the last of the melatonin.
    I barely hear the alarm even if it is right next to me, so placing it somewhere far so I have to get up to press the snooze button doesn't help.
    I like the put your feet on the floor quote. I should repeat that out loud every night before I go to bed.

    posted over 1 year ago | Report

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