Join me on the 5 am challenge.

[ISHGoat]

It's pretty well documented that many of the most successful, productive people in all of history wake up early.

Waking up early naturally at 5 gives us the best energy and spirit in the morning, when we have that time to ourselves in a rejuvenated state to do something productive with our life. For some, lifting weights, others studying or just to work on their craft.

The goal is to wake up 5-10 minutes earlier every week until you start getting up at 5 naturally.

[Bandito]

That's not true. I am unsuccessful and wake up at 5 am everyday. I hate it so bad I want to kill myself.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

5 am.

Try 3:45 and ready to milk the cows.

You ain't a man till you're an Amish man.

[Lensanity]

Sleep deprivation is really bad for muscle growth so no thanks

[ISHGoat]

There are two reasons you wake up at 5 am:

You HAVE to.

Or

You want to.

If you must wake up at 5 am because a shift starts at 6, need to take care of babies, etc then that's a different story.

This is for the people that want to try and boost productivity and promote overall well being. If you just Google waking up early the results are everywhere.

Americans average under 6.5 hours of sleep. 7-9 is recommended by some established sleep org. I would not go below 6 per day, while I think 7 is optimal for most people.

[Bandito]

There are two reasons you wake up at 5 am:

You HAVE to.

Or

You want to.

If you must wake up at 5 am because a shift starts at 6, need to take care of babies, etc then that's a different story.

This is for the people that want to try and boost productivity and promote overall well being. If you just Google waking up early the results are everywhere.

Americans average under 6.5 hours of sleep. 7-9 is recommended by some established sleep org. I would not go below 6 per day, while I think 7 is optimal for most people.
So you mean for kids that don't work like probably you?

[BlakFrankWhite]

Alphas dont sleep

[outbreak]

I wake up at 5:30 most mornings. I'm naturally a light sleeper and can never raelly sleep in. It's annoying at times because even if I don't go to bed until like 3am I'll still wake up early.

[ISHGoat]

So you mean for kids that don't work like probably you?

I work a 9-5 but I have started to study hard to go back to school. I want to wake up earlier to give me more productive time. When I get home from work I am generally less motivated and tired. I wake at 7:30 now and my best hours are spent on my commute and for my employer. I'm going to be more selfish and use that time to exercise, plan the day, and do work.

[RidonKs]

so what's the challenge bro? cuz it's 2:43 now...

[Bandito]

I work a 9-5 but I have started to study hard to go back to school. I want to wake up earlier to give me more productive time. When I get home from work I am generally less motivated and tired. I wake at 7:30 now and my best hours are spent on my commute and for my employer. I'm going to be more selfish and use that time to exercise, plan the day, and do work.
Well in a normal semester I wake up at 5 to go to my part time and after that I go to college. Been doing that snce 2013. Im about to graduate now though.

[Akrazotile]

Well in a normal semester I wake up at 5 to go to my part time and after that I go to college. Been doing that snce 2013. Im about to graduate now though.


#Grinding :applause:

What did you study?

[macmac]

I like the thought of waking up early and having my coffee and newspaper on the balcony before conquering the world, but I work irregular hours where I do 17hr shifts that finish at 7-8am 3 times a week

[UK2K]

It's pretty well documented that many of the most successful, productive people in all of history wake up early.

Waking up early naturally at 5 gives us the best energy and spirit in the morning, when we have that time to ourselves in a rejuvenated state to do something productive with our life. For some, lifting weights, others studying or just to work on their craft.

The goal is to wake up 5-10 minutes earlier every week until you start getting up at 5 naturally.

True. There's been tons of studies on it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennifercohen/2013/10/02/5-things-super-successful-people-do-before-8-am/

I wake up around 6:35 (or 6:40 when I DGAF), shower, eat, and take the trash out to leave for work by 7:15 to get there at 8.

5 am sounds awful.

[ImmortalNemesis]

Just woke up at 12 p.m.

F*ck off with that shite

[enayes]

If you get up that early you'll just have to go to bed earlier. So you're not being more productive. I get most of my tasks completed at night, so I'd rather stay up later and be productive and then get a good nights rest of 8-10 hours.

[Velocirap31]

No need to get up early. Just utilize the hours you're awake more effectively. Avoid tv and video games.

[UK2K]

No need to get up early. Just utilize the hours you're awake more effectively. Avoid tv and video games.

Its so hard.

I dont watch much tv now that football and basketball season is off though.

[Velocirap31]

Its so hard.

I dont watch much tv now that football and basketball season is off though.

I just got kind of tired of them. The last game I played was bloodborne, but then my save files were overwrote with a ps plus mistake. That killed it for me and I haven't turned the system on in about 4 months.

[ISHGoat]

If you get up that early you'll just have to go to bed earlier. So you're not being more productive. I get most of my tasks completed at night, so I'd rather stay up later and be productive and then get a good nights rest of 8-10 hours.

intuitively this is true, but theoretically and scientifically I think we get our best sleep from 22-5. when you sleep early and wake early, you are more in sync with the the "earth time", that is, natural daylight hours. further, i think it is better to have free time BEFORE you start your day, because naturally that is when you will be most energized.

how often do we go to bed and have amazing ideas, thoughts, etc? we usually are never able to act or materialize any of those, because we are dead tired and about to end our day, rather than start it.

also, no video games/tv.

some of the smartest people that I look up to wake up really early. My boss at work wakes up at 4 am everyday naturally.

kobe is known to do this too.

[Jailblazers7]

I had a nice month or two of waking up at 6 and hitting the gym, eating a nice breakfast, reading for an hour, and then getting to work. It felt pretty great. But then I started dealing with some pretty awful insomnia about two weeks ago which has ****ed everything up.

[RidonKs]

well it is only sensible that your body should probably be up and about around the same time as the sun... why i decided to work nights then i have no idea

[Richie2k6]

I enjoy waking up really early (like 6:30 is really early to me, miss me with that 5am stuff lol). Hard to do with my work hours right now though

[Bandito]

#Grinding :applause:

What did you study?
Computer science

[Bandito]

I like the thought of waking up early and having my coffee and newspaper on the balcony before conquering the world, but I work irregular hours where I do 17hr shifts that finish at 7-8am 3 times a week
17 hour shifts? I coyld barely do 12 :(

[Dr Seuss]

I use to have to wake up at 5/530 when doing my clinicals at the hospital. fck that life. :lol

[Akrazotile]

I use to have to wake up at 5/530 when doing my clinicals at the hospital. fck that life. :lol


Hey, me too!

[rufuspaul]

I get up at 5:30 during the week, 7:30 weekends.

[MrC1991]

I wake up at 4:15 and get to work by 5:20ish usually. Sometimes earlier or a little later depending on the size of the roof we're doing or how much we already have done.

[macmac]

17 hour shifts? I coyld barely do 12 :(

Yeah but all I do is host poker games and crack jokes to entertain my clients and eat lol so I can't really complain, but the hours definitely mess with having a regular life

[Hawker]

Been getting up at 5 the past two mornings. One more to go.

Got at of bed at 5:20 the first time and 5:10 the second time. Hoping for at least 5:05 this time.

[ISHGoat]

Been getting up at 5 the past two mornings. One more to go.

Got at of bed at 5:20 the first time and 5:10 the second time. Hoping for at least 5:05 this time.

youre a beast, my goal is 1 minute a day and around half a year Ill wake at 5 everyday naturally

[Bandito]

I'll be moving back to working day shift soon so this will be pretty easy for me after a couple of weeks. I'm not the biggest fan of waking up while the sun is down but I'll start doing a little am cardio before work again. 4:45 will be my goal
Yeah me too after I go back. When I go back to normal work I will probably start running at 445 again.

[ISHGoat]

7:15 today while on vacation and I feel greaf! 2 hours and a quarter more to go

[BlackWhiteGreen]

Might give this a go when I'm back from holiday. Although my gym doesn't open til 7 so i'd need something else to do. Studying maybe...

[highwhey]

5:40am today. Shooting for 5am eventually. Gym opens at 530.

[BigNBAfan]

5:40am today. Shooting for 5am eventually. Gym opens at 530.

garbage gym...

[NZStreetBaller]

Great thread op.

This is a very basic fundamental to success. One of the common habits among success people. But they dont get up early as a method to be successful. Its just because what they desire is that important to them they naturally get up easier.

Im up at 4 every morning. Go to sleep about 10pm. Seriously anything more then 6 hours ur wasting precious hours of your life.

Gym 1 hour in the morning. Read some useful or interesting literature 1 hour before bed do it everyday for 3 months. And ull feel and see massive differences

[RidonKs]

Great thread op.

This is a very basic fundamental to success. One of the common habits among success people. But they dont get up early as a method to be successful. Its just because what they desire is that important to them they naturally get up easier.

Im up at 4 every morning. Go to sleep about 10pm. Seriously anything more then 6 hours ur wasting precious hours of your life.

Gym 1 hour in the morning. Read some useful or interesting literature 1 hour before bed do it everyday for 3 months. And ull feel and see massive differences
follow the sun pretty much, give or take a few hours on either end

[CeltsGarlic]

7 30 on weekdays 11 30 in the weekend. There is no way in the world for me to wake up earlier.

[24-Inch_Chrome]

Weekends vary greatly but I'm usually awake by 5:30 during the week. It's always a bit difficult to re-adjust to an earlier wake up time during the summer but once I get into the groove it feels great.

[ISHGoat]

I woke up at 6:15 today, without an alarm.

Today I will achieve a goal that I've been working on for a while: wake up early enough to have time to work out before work.

:cheers: to myself and all my ISH brothers

[Marv_Albert]

**** 5am i'd rather do it after work