How do you get youself up for AM workouts?

that ain't an easy question to answer but I agree with the other posters that #1 you've got to get to bed early enough...

the days that are tougher for me are usually the ones after getting to bed later than usual

two-a-days four times a week is also a bit much without proper rest and recovery.

Good luck!

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nice reply - I'm going to cut and paste and blow up...

basically says quit your bitchin' and just do it!

You really need to try to go to bed two hours earlier. It does take a lot of planning. Something that helps is cooking my meals a few days out. That way, when I get home from an evening training session, I only have to pop dinner in the microwave...not having to cook and clean saves a lot of time. I also make sure laundry, grocery shopping, vacuuming, shopping, cleaning etc., is done on the weekends so that the amount of errands and tasks I have to do during the week is cut to a minimum. I also need to give myself a good 20-30 mins of laying in bed reading or watching TV in order to fall asleep with no problems when it is time for bed. Our days are busy, and that downtime really helps me.

At my age with kids, getting to bed early doesn't happen.  Waking up, on the other hand, happens like clockwork due to good ol' body mechanics - the kidneys have their own timer.

My husband trains with me in the AM.  He sets up the coffee pot to be done brewing coffee when we're supposed to get up, and he wakes my lazy azz up out of the bed with a nice cup of hot coffee.

Best husband ever.

If you don't have a Romantic Interest-type person who is a better early bird than you, I would suggest having a trail of loud alarm clocks leading through the house to the coffee pot (which, last night, you set ahead to brew a pot of coffee at 5 AM).  They should be really loud, set to the most annoying beep or worst radio station you know of, and all go off at the same time so that once you are woken up by it, you need to go down the whole trail of 5 alarm clocks, turning off each one, and ending up at the coffee pot which will hopefully contain a pot of freshly-brewed coffee.  This tactic worked pretty well for me in college.

hatred of running on the treadmill....I can get up and run outside or I have to do the treadmill later (I live in FL and its too hot to run outside about anyother time of year)  Once you get to masters you may like it so much you will go.....only takes on time