I get so many questions about how I get up early and get my workouts in! For all of you busy mamas, I know it is tough when you don’t get enough sleep and can’t imagine working out in the morning. I know how hard it is to make time for you while you are taking care of your kids. That is why I wanted to share some of my tips to help inspire you to MAKE time to take care of yourself before your kids even wake up!

1) IF YOU TELL YOURSELF THAT YOU CAN’T GET UP AND GET A WORKOUT IN, THEN YOU’RE 100% CORRECT.

Having a positive attitude that you can and will get up goes a REALLY long way. If you continually tell yourself that “you can’t”, then you will start to believe that you can’t. If you are having a really hard time with this, think of things that you have already accomplished. Think about how you were capable of doing that thing whether it be becoming a mama, an achievement at work, or having a hard conversation. Whatever it was, you were able to do it and proved you could. Apply that same logic to waking up early and getting your workout in. You are capable of so many things, this is just another thing to add to that list!

2) HAVE THE MINDSET THAT YOU CAN AND YOU’RE GOING TO DO IT BECAUSE IT’S GOING TO HELP YOU FEEL GREAT THROUGHOUT THE DAY!

Anyone else have anxiety throughout the day? Whether that be regular anxiety, or COVID-induced anxiety, everyone to some degree experiences anxiety.

Everyone Active, a team of experts that cover every facet of the fitness world, says that ‘Several treatments exist for depression and anxiety that can help control symptoms and improve your better quality of life. Among them are home or gym workouts, counselling, psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and medication. In fact, working out at home or in the gym is one of the most accessible and least expensive treatments to adopt, and research indicates that exercise is very effective in reducing depression and anxiety’.

After doing an at-home workout, you will feel less anxious and you will feel great throughout the rest of your day!

3) SET YOUR WORKOUT CLOTHES OUT THE NIGHT BEFORE.

When you set your workout clothes out the night before, it shows you’re committed and it’s one less decision you have to make in the morning. I also think it is a great reminder to actually workout and not skip it because you see the workout clothes already laid out and it reminds you of the commitment you made to doing the workout. Once you are reminded that you are committed to your goals, it is pretty hard not to do the workout. This almost creates a sense of guilt if you don’t get up and do the workout because you know you are giving up on yourself and you don’t want to do that.

4) SET YOUR ALARM SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY PUT YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND IN ORDER TO GET OUT OF BED.

This is such an important tip! I also recommend if you have a really hard time waking up to put your alarm/ phone in the bathroom. That way there, you physically have to get up out of bed, go to the bathroom and shut your alarm off. By the time you shut your alarm off, you are already up and in the bathroom so you can’t go back to bed and snooze.

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5) THEN READ THE MEL ROBBINS 5 SECOND RULE. THAT MEANS NO SNOOZING!

Mel Robbins wrote The 5 Second Rule which was an amazing personal development book that you should definitely read.

If you have not read the book yet, Mel Robbins says ‘the one-liner definition of the 5 Second Rule: If you have an impulse to act on a goal, you must physically move within 5 seconds or your brain will kill the idea’.

So that means when you hear your alarm go off, instead of immediately hitting snooze, pause for a minute. In your head say to yourself, 5-4-3-2-1 and then get up. If you wait past the 5 seconds, your brain will convince you not to do what you set out to do and start convincing you to stay in bed instead. Try this tomorrow when you wake up in the morning!

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6) GET YOURSELF A GOOD PRE-WORKOUT!

Getting a good pre-workout is so important! I would never be able to wake up as early as I do and workout without it. I use Beachbody’s Lemon Energize. Lemon Energize is an all-natural pre-workout that helps you blast through your toughest workouts with a surge of energy! I keep mine in the bathroom and it’s the first thing I do once my feet hit the floor, even before I get dressed. As soon as I have a sip of it, there is no way I am going back to bed as I feel ready to go!