Get more out of your day by training early

Start your day right and train early!

There are so many benefits to starting your day with some high intensity training. It boosts your immune system, kickstarts your metabolism, energises your body, oxygenates your brain and sets a fantastic tone for the rest of your day. 

Not to mention, if you train in the right environment with the right people, it will boost your mood and have you feeling great before your day has really even kicked off. 

So if starting your day right, feeling great about yourself, boosting your energy, getting an endorphin release and achieving your health and fitness goals are all things that you want to bring into your life, then follow the routine below and maximise the benefits of training in the morning and get the most out of your day.

EVERYDAY RITUALS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR EARLY MORNING TRAINING

  • Have your workout gear ready the night before

One of the easiest excuses that you can offer yourself is not having the time to get ready in the morning. So eliminate that excuse by having your clothes, shoes, breakfast and water bottle ready to go the night before. 

  • Have a 3 min shower as soon as you wake up

Waking up can be difficult for some of us, especially with kids, stressful jobs and everything else that life throws at us. So a great way to make yourself feel fresh and great before rocking up to the gym is to jump in the shower with a 3 min timer set. It will wake you up, make you feel fresh and ready to attack your workout.

  • Drink 500ml – 1L of water before you leave the house

Most people don’t stay hydrated well throughout the day and a lot don’t hydrate well before and after training. A great way to optimise your training sessions is to drink 500ml to 1L of pure water before training. So in this case, get it done before you leave the house in the morning and head to the gym. It will help wake you up and increase your performance when you get started. 

  • Get out of bed when your first alarm goes off

You know it’s true, you have set 2,3,4…..10 alarms every morning to get you out of bed because you’re addicted to hitting snooze. Fitness and health comes from being disciplined and doing the little things everyday that make a difference. This is one of them. Not only do you wake up better then having consistently interrupted sleep. Once you’re out of bed and either in the shower or putting your clothes on, you’re creating a healthy habit to get you moving and starting your day in the best possible way.

  • Train with a friend

One of the best ways to get yourself into a good routine in the mornings is to do it with a friend. Find someone that you can bounce off, that will bring positive energy into your mornings and that you’ll work well with and do it with them. You are now more accountable, less anxious and more likely to continue. 

Add these rituals to your morning and start reaping the rewards of training early and starting your day right. 

2019-03-13T15:05:23+11:00

About the Author:

Denee Lalouette
A UFT PLAYground is a place that people of all shapes, sizes and ages learn to develop their movement abilities through an infinite learning and development program. UFT PLAYgrounds have been created to re-inspire our natural ability to move, create, adapt, re-act, connect, have fun and of course PLAY. PLAYgrounds have been developed to allow people to feel and explore their own abilities by utilising a multidimensional, infinite, creative and PLAYful approach to training. We live in a world full of specialists and obsessions. At an ever increasing rate, people are specialising more and more, in their jobs, in their businesses, in their sport and in their training. The result, is a backward step in human evolution. By specialising, we limit ourselves to thinking that 1 particular way of doing things is the right way, or the only way. We promote creativity, not only in movement and training methodologies but in thinking in general. A UFT PLAYground is created to provide the general public with an opportunity to PLAY across multiple styles of training and moving, to be able to progress in the training methods that they become passionate about or that excites them and to be a part of a community that promotes more than just fitness. The “fitness” industry above all others has brought about a need to specialise in order to achieve anything, and majority of what we do for “fitness” is for an aesthetically pleasing reason. We understand that aesthetics are nice and we too love to look and feel good. However a UFT PLAYground is developed to allow people to move better than ever before across a broad range of training methodologies and ideas. Aesthetics, therefore are a result not a goal of that system. We know that “If you train to look good, you will not always enjoy what you do, but if you PLAY a lot, and do the things that you love, you will ending up looking good”. Aesthetics should be a result not a goal. For years now, we have recognised that the best movers on the planet are children. They are flexible, mobile & fit, they have better relative strength than a typical adult (and even most adolescents), they are the best creators and innovators, they learn faster, the adapt better, they interact better with other people, they are more connected to nature and most importantly, they PLAY more than anyone else. As adults, we tend to believe that because we are taller and more experienced in “life”, we are better, and then we get to an age that says we are “too old to PLAY”. As we grow taller (and in a lot of cases rounder), we experience things that inhibit our ability to move, think and not think. We allow our experiences to limit our abilities as humans, whether it be a physical injury, a story that we heard or a youtube video that we watched. We also allow our emotions to control our behaviour because of our past experiences. Maybe it was the feeling of humiliation when we tried something new, regret when we failed or heart break when it was taken away from us. Because of this, we allow our experiences to control our future instead of learning from them and creating our own . This is what UFT PLAYground’s are built on. The understanding that we as humans need to go back to the way things were before our negative experiences took over our subconscious mind and body. A UFT PLAYground gives people the ability to re-learn what they have lost, as well as develop new sets of skills that will allow them to follow any particular passion that they uncover in PLAYtime. When we PLAY, we are simply, exploring. Through exploring we become curious and through curiosity we become obsessed or passionate about a particular thing. This is why in a PLAYground we allow people to PLAY across a broad range of training systems (minimum of 3), Through this system they are able to identify 1, their current limitations and be educated on how to overcome them, and 2, identify their passions and learn to develop, grow and excel in them. UFT PLAYgrounds are also a development centre for up and coming entrepreneurs in the fitness industry. Each PLAYground founder will have been trained and will be continuously trained in UFT’s Trainer Success System. This system allows personal trainers, coaches, teachers, instructors, etc. to continue to develop in their fields of specialty (as they play they will find it) and in the philosophy of PLAYtime. They will also be trained in the business systems of UFT in order to have their own successful and profitable business. See UFT Trainer Success System for more details.

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