New England B.S. Thread

4:00AM . Actually out of bed at 4:30

 

Sleeping is overrated anyway, I mean it's nice to get a good night's sleep and everything but....
Ain't nobody got time for that shit!

 

5 AM here, usually out the door by 5:30 - 5:45.

 

I wake up between 4:45-5:30 every day. No time to get out the door and its great.

I have found that being FORCED to be awake by an alarm makes it approx. 10 million times harder to wake up rather than doing it naturally.

 

5AM here as well. If I go into the office I'll leave by 545. I wake up at the same time on the weekend too just out of habit

 

I have to question any adult who sleeps in on the weekends, to me thats a reallllllly strange thing. My brother with 3 kids manages it somehow.

1) I don't understand how your body just doesn't wake you up
2)I dont understand how your wife doesn't wake you up
3) sleep past 6 am and you might as well throw the day in the trash can because you missed it!


**** Does not apply to 2nd and 3rd shift, well it does but not number 3.

 

My wife sleeps in on the weekends...
Sometimes till 9
She's less cranky though when she gets her sleep

 

My wife would sleep til 9 if I let her

 

as a new parent you have these questions, let’s revisit this in a year or 2. I wake up before the alarm almost every day, but if I have to “go” to work, I won’t get up till the alarm goes off. If I don’t need to go anywhere, I’ll get up. I hate sitting around waiting to leave.

 

Backyard is getting some nice color

 

Nah, I have felt this way for almost a decade and in a few years the kid should be sleeping even better! I am with you tho, get up and get moving.

Now that I think about it, I've been getting up way easier and earlier since I stopped drinking a while back, that's probably why I don't have a problem getting out of bed anymore ha

Seriously, @Skierrichy acts like drugging his wife before bed so he can get some free wrench time in the mornings is the right way to do things

 

I get up at 0430 so I can hit the before work. On the weekends I like the 2 hours alone before my daughter gets up at 0630 so I can dick around with stuff in the garage.

 

Not this guy

 

I used to do that in college.

my sleep patterns are seasonal. Summer I’m up ass crack o dawn on my own. Fall (it’s already started) mornings are a struggle. Winter is the same.



ps I decided to nix that first gen idea. Would be fun but for a few hundred bucks more I can get a Jeep. Probably in similar shape. But still, at least with a Jeep I can get sliders and skids for like 100 bucks. Thanks cheap Chinese shit. I won’t care enough to get the better stuff though. Oh well. Now I just need to convince my wife I should get a second vehicle. will probably be in the spring if I pull it off.

 

I find it so hard to get a good workout that early in the morning. I can run that early no problem, but the weights feel 10x heavier for me early in the mornings

 

Same. I try every few years to switch to mornings, and it never produces good results. I always loose reps / sets

 

I generally wake up around 6 on the weekends naturally although, there are times I will sleep in if I can. Weeks like this week, where I've been at the office 14-16 hours a day (not including travel time), by the time the weekend rolls around, I'm absolutely wiped out. Fortunately, my wife will get up with the kids on Saturday morning and I'll sleep in until 8:00. That's rare though, even if I'm tired, my body seems to naturally wake me up around 6. Usually, I get up with the kids and the dog and my wife sleeps in until 9 (she'd probably sleep in later if I didn't send the kids upstairs to wake her up).

 

If I only could...
Course if she had the opportunity to do that to me

 

That makes sense, even if you are just laying there, having a break for a few hours in the entire week must be nice.

I live quite the blessed life and I won't deny that, so my opinions should be taken with a grain of salt. I wake up when I want, I work from home/next door and most of my tasks are set by myself. 1-2 days a week I'm a servant and clean bathrooms and stuff, but I don't mind and its relatively easy and stress free. Other wise I can do work when I want to, and rest when I want to. So when I say I'm up early, well I also stopped working before dinner, and have been sitting around for a few hours and hit the bed at 8-9pm. So I'm getting a full night sleep, just starting it earlier.

Next time you guys hear me bitch about anything besides the gov't (which will get me the ban hammer anyways) make sure to give me a quick kick in the ass

 

Do you eat anything in the AM? Do you drink coffee/caffeine (AM and in general?)

When I was lifting in the AM in college I would eat a banana or something before my lifts, I didn't/don't drink caffeine coffee/energy drinks though, so I was pretty much roll out of bed and good to go. I guess having a drive to campus in -25°F might have helped "warm" me up though.

I couldn't run in the morning I was the opposite. But, I also needed to chunk out time when I could, which just meant dropping 2 hours of sleep in the AM to lift, the rest of my day was busy. Now that I have a dog though, it just feels weird going to the gym. I have a dog that would love to join me for a run/bike ride/hike, so I feel "bad" going and doing something on my own without her.