What Happens After Getting Up at 5:30 AM Every Day?

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Is time the biggest enemy when it comes to exercise?

Lack of time is the biggest enemy of exercise.

Early morning rush to catch the subway, enduring the morning peak traffic; an hour's lunch break, just enough for a meal at a 500-meter radius; after work, it's 8 or 9 pm before you get home, and you just want to watch two episodes of a TV series… Where's the time for exercise?

How familiar these questions must be to you. Today's protagonist is also an ordinary American woman. She's not someone who grew up as an elite and never needed to squeeze onto a subway, nor is she a full-time housewife with more leisure time. Judy Koutsky is just like us ordinary people: she works; she's a mother, taking care of her children; but she gets up early to exercise, and has been doing so for more than a month.

How can office workers who often have their schedules filled every day insist on exercising every day?

The answer is to get up early.

We must admit that everyone is usually very busy. There are always many other things to do in life, and the priority of exercise is often pushed to the back by us. You certainly won't rank exercise as important as discussing the contract with the client,

How can we ensure our exercise time in such a schedule?

Get up early.

Some may ask, why doesn't it work to do it at noon? Why doesn't it work at night? Indeed, many people use their lunch breaks to exercise, which is the most time-saving method. However, when meetings and urgent work come up unexpectedly, noon is the most unstable time for exercise. Just as you're about to go downstairs to the gym, your boss calls you for a meeting, and you give it up. When you arrive at night, colleagues invite you to dinner, and a new boy invites you to see a movie, do you go?

The only time that truly belongs to you is the early morning when everyone is still asleep.

Early morning exercise not only helps with metabolism, but also burns more calories for the rest of the day.

Studies have shown that exercising before 7 a.m. is better than exercising at 1 p.m. or 7 p.m.

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Judy's choice is to exercise before her family is awake. Her gym opens at 5:30 a.m., while her husband and children usually don't wake up until 7 a.m. So, she sets her alarm clock every day to 5:30 a.m., and then goes out to exercise. By the time she returns, her family will have gradually woken up.

After persisting for a month, what changes?

1. A more optimistic and upbeat attitude

Getting up early to exercise is like carrying a secret that only you know. No matter how busy or bad a day may be, it's a safe harbor.

Since Judy has been exercising early, she can better control her emotions. Some things that once made her nervous, stressed, and prone to outbursts (such as deadlines) no longer seem so terrible. She became more positive and optimistic, and small things in life no longer affected her.

2. Improved sleep quality

Early morning exercise will make you sleep better at night.

Judy tried early morning exercise for a month. She usually goes to bed no later than 9 p.m. and doesn't go to sleep until at least 5:30 a.m. This is more than she often stayed up late before, and she sleeps more soundly. Because of the release of stress, she also sleeps more soundly every night.

3. Weight loss

Judy didn't miss a single morning exercise for a month.

However, when she felt uncomfortable and needed to reduce her weight, she still listened to her body. But after a month, Judy formed a new and healthier exercise habit. At the same time, without strict diet control, she lost 3 kilograms!

We aren't 'lacking time,' but rather 'not allocating time' to exercise.

Time can be allocated to hot pot, nightclubs, and endless work. Why can't it be allocated to exercise?

4. Capture the most vibrant morning hours

Focusing on the most productive two hours in the morning - 'and that's a 30-minute window - which is sleep, and then a 30-minute breakfast.'

This is the most focused time of the day when you can concentrate on things and have the strongest self-discipline.

5. Save ten minutes to be efficient every day

Make a daily plan for the trip with ten minutes!

After arriving at the company, what's the first task? What should be handled before a certain time? What should be handled next? In this time that is not easily influenced by emotions, do a good job of self-discipline.

6. Focus on the priority

By getting up early, let yourself exercise, and let the body wake up, studies show that morning exercise can help increase your work efficiency by more than 30%.

It's no wonder so many successful world entrepreneurs have the habit of getting up early to exercise.

9. Prepare for the next day

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Getting up early can help you prepare for the next day. This gives you more planning and thinking time, so you don't need to heat up when you start work. It helps you have a better mood when facing the whole day.

Seven actions to take early in the morning

1. Get up early, eat breakfast

2. Do some low-intensity cardio exercise to sweat.

3. Contact topics or language that can boost motivation

4. Write a thank you for a happy daily life in a notebook or on a computer

5. Read some easy-to-read articles or books

6. Plan your daily itinerary within ten minutes

7. Take a moment to relax.

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① and ② early wake-up and exercise, and ⑦ relaxation - they drive the frontal lobe to improve focus; ③ and ④ absorption of positive energy and positive notes is a catalyst to reorganize the mind; ⑤ sunshine helps the brain secrete the hormone of happiness - serotonin, and positive behaviors can catalyze this reaction, making the secretion more efficient.

Early wake-up is not difficult

If you still lie in bed, it's hard to get up. Try these steps to help you get up early. 'The key hour before work' - it says that getting up also has a score, called 'the motivation level to get up', and most people's waking up is about 8:25, and the average person wakes up at 8:25. To improve motivation, Hal Elrod provides 5 steps so you can be on time.

Step 1: Establish a positive mindset before going to bed (motivation level 2)

The last thought before going to bed is the first thought of getting up.

Step 2: Move the alarm clock further away (motivation level 2)

So after waking up, you have to get up, get out of bed, walk, and don't make decisions blindly. Just walking to the toilet to wash your face or brush your teeth will increase the motivation to get up from level two to level three or four.

Step 3: Drink a glass of water (motivation level 5)

After six to eight hours of sleep, your body is extremely dehydrated, and brushing your teeth requires water. So, brush your teeth first.

This can increase the 'motivation to get up' from level three or four to level five.

Step 4: Change into your workout clothes (motivation level 10)

It doesn't take much to exercise, just a few sit-ups and push-ups, the focus is not on exercise, but to wake up your body.

These five steps take no more than 5 minutes, and now as long as you go to bed and…

Move the phone further away, put a glass of water on the bed, and have a good mood before going to bed.

When you are two hours earlier than others, the focus is the most concentrated, and the self-discipline is the strongest.

Because you get up early, you can exercise, and your body will wake up. Studies show that morning exercise can help increase your work efficiency by more than 30%.

It's no wonder so many successful world entrepreneurs have the habit of getting up early to exercise.

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