Win your Battle with the Snooze Button

As a Beachbody coach, I get lots of email questions. Here is a good one:

JeffTheRN asks:

"I work 7a-7p and REALLY need to start getting up in the a.m. to do my P90X workouts. After 12-13 hours in the unit all day, then coming home to workout, just does not mix. Any tips for me to get my butt out of bed that early?!?!"




The biggest key is to get your tail to bed early. If you can get to be by 9/9:30 you should be able to get up around 4:30 am. The trick is getting to bed that early.


I heard a tip from Tony Horton, creator of P90X, that really helps me fight the snooze button.

Tony said that when you are not feeling like exercising, ask yourself these questions:

• Do I want to be more healthy today?
• Do I want to think more clearly today?
• Do I want to be in a better mood today?
• Do I want to have more energy today?
• Do I want to look better starting today?
• Do I want to be a good example for my family today?
• Insert your own reason/question here

Think of getting up to work out as a battle of reasons. You have on one side of the scale the warmth of your bed and benefit of the extra hour of sleep (so the earlier you get to bed, the smaller this reason becomes). On the other side of the scale are all the reasons you want to exercise. The more reasons you have, them stronger they are, and the more you can remind yourself of them, the more likely they are to tip the scale and win the battle.

-Doc