Help me get out of bed and to the gym.

DakotaPaul — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:09:12 -0800

Mrs. DakotaPaul and I are having difficulties getting out of bed and to the gym in the morning. Can you help? My wife and I used to be really good about getting out of bed at 5:30am to go to the gym for an hour. We like to go in the morning because we’re often busy after work, and the gym is packed at that time anyway. For the last several months, however, we’ve been hitting the snooze button until 7:00 (yes, we really do hit it that many times). It’s not that we don’t want to go to the gym – we like to stay active and in shape – it’s just sooooo nice to lie in a warm, comfy bed together. This is getting to be a real problem, though, because we’re gaining weight and feeling sluggish.

We’ve tried changing the alarm from radio to buzzer, and we’ve set it up across the bedroom so we have to get out of bet to shut it off. That hasn’t worked. How do you get yourself out of bed in the morning? Any tips or tricks to get yourself to wake up enough to decide that slipping back between those cozy flannel sheets is not an option?

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Help me get out of bed and to the gym.