I know it’s not nearly as early but I’ve been getting up at 6 every morning to practice and work on music, a full three hours before I have to work my day job. It’s literally the best thing I’ve ever done for my creativity and proficiency and I would recommend it to every creative, regardless of your medium. There’s something amazing about the special early hours before the world gets busy, the ability to focus. It’s wonderful. And this is coming from a lifetime late-riser.
@@ytht21it takes a while to adjust but you just try to go to bed earlier and earlier every night until you’re at 7-8 hours of sleep. Regular exercise helps and limiting caffeine.
@@ytht21it takes a while to adjust but you just try to go to bed earlier and earlier every night until you’re at 7-8 hours of sleep. Regular exercise helps and limiting caffeine.
I noticed when I do this I have way more focus on doing just about anything. I do it on my 3 day weekend every other week, but my brother started getting up early to play computer games after. He's up at 7am and goes to bed at 2am lately and it's frustrating when I want to work on stuff.
Craig I noticed in your straddle -split you are curving your back. This can cause low back pain. Think about keeping your chest up. This will help keep your back straight and you should feel the stretch more in your inner thighs than your low back. Can't wait to see the stretching video! Stretch safely ❤
Stumbled on the benefits of getting up very early in grad school in my 20s, stopped in my 30s, then rediscovered it in my early 40s. I prefer to think of it as front-loading my day: instead of waking up, rushing to work, working 8-10 hours, and coming home too exhausted to exercise or cultivate my hobbies, I wake up very early (3am), meditate, exercise, walk the dog, and practice guitar everyday before my workday starts at 8am. Walking around my central city in the wee hours of the morning truly feels like I have the city all to myself, undisturbed. The tranquility shifts your perspective and you gain appreciation for spaces you are used to seeing bustling with people during the day.
I don't prioritize my career/job over my quality of life, so getting up early has always been my way of giving the best of myself to the things I love (exercise, reading, etc.). My job and the stresses that sometimes come with it can have the leftovers :)
I would love that kind of rhythm and am looking for a better one than my usual, at the moment. But if I may ask, how do you get your sleep? I have a commute and my work is pretty demanding and needs me alert.
I was a chronic late nighter. Eventually ended up being a 2/3am bed time person and it added up over time and created some BAD health issues. I started the switch 2 years ago and haven't looked back. The energy I have in those early awake hours are so much better than spare time in the evening. I'm now a 9:30pm bed time and 4:30/5am wake up. 100% recommend.
ME TOO - I had a million reasons worked out why I was a night person. But the truth was, I was going to bed at 2 am, 3 am. And getting up at 12. In the end, my sister convinced me just to actually get my a$$ out of bed. For four years, I got up at 6 am went to bed like you at 9:30, and it absolutely transformed my life. My life was unquestionably 100% better. Then, for a weird thing to do, I started getting up 15 minutes before sunrise every day, and watching the sunrise, as I did tai chi on the balcony, and that again was a big big improvement in my life. I'm a self-employed author, so I can do these things. But my life now runs on the old Japanese time system that everything is so many hours after sunrise. The strange thing is to me sunrise is an absolute fixed time in the day now, and everyone else is weird for getting up at a different time every day. It's hard to express how humans are linked to the sunrise to someone who doesn't get up at sunrise every day.
@@piccalillipit9211 thanks for sharing and good on you for making the change!! You're so right about sunrise! That was something that helped me switch too :) I started going for a walk along the beach to watch the sunrise because it was the only thing wondrous and beautiful enough to motivate me to get out that early.
@@stackels97 I live next to the beach in Bulgaria - I cant conveniently get to it as there is a lake in between a bit like they have in Florida. So Im like 400 yards from the beach but have to go 5 miles to get there LOL. But I watch the sunrise over the sea every morning - its the one amazing thing in the world that is GENUINELY FREE...!!! Sunrise is the anchor point of my life now, and Im not being glib.
I am a night person and whenever I try to change that, I don't notice any benefits, I'm just more tired. Getting by just fine going to sleep late and waking up late. What kind of health issues you experienced, if I may ask?
@@AnssiEriksson There's just a lot of virtue-signaling on being early birds, early risers. Some people are night owls by nature. As long as they sleep well and consistently, are happy, they will be ok. The world still needs night people for either creativity or in the work force (to keep us safe and other such emergency services). I will say this, the earlier people wake up like at 4:00am...the faster they will fade during the day after mid-day lunch, lol. And this guy goes to bed at midnight or something and says it's a wonderful thing to get up at 4:00 in the morning? Ok...
I find the nap jokes very relatable- I have horrible insomnia and am on prescription meds that cause me to get absurdly sleepy, so despite being in my twenties I have to schedule my day around having a midday nap. My remote job recently forced everyone to go back into the office and my health has been suffering because of it. Working on finding a way to get income where I can make my own schedule! Your sleep videos are some of my favorites, I really appreciate them.
Man I totally agree. If it wasn’t for my family I’d be in the big city fer sure. I mean I love the countryside but being able to ditch the car & take transit is something I miss.
I can never fall asleep during a nap, no matter how horribly I've slept the night before, but just the act of lying down for 20 minutes, closing my eyes, and listening to music is extremely restful and is a vital part of my daily routine 🙌
my roomate is the same and once he gets to awake after sleep he cant fall back asleep. sometimes I think my can sleep everywhere skill is more a curse 😂 I dont even need to lay down just stay still for a second and there it is
Likewise. I’m normally a morning person, but I once took a job working graveyard shift (11 pm to 7am), thinking that if I was up all night I’d sleep all day. Right? Nuh-uh. I could NOT sleep during the day, no matter how exhausted I was. I could doze for a few hours, but never really deep sleep. I quit after six months when my body was trying to take micro-naps while I was driving. Totally screwed up my biorhythms for years, and I still have sleeping issues.
I feel the same way about late night hours as others do about early morning hours. I love the feeling of being the only one awake in the house, the quiet, it’s just a wonderfully private time..
I get up this early naturally...which means I fall asleep very early naturally. It's genuinely been a nightmare for my social life for pretty much my entire life, to the extent that my first roommate kicked me out because of our extremely different sleep schedules (everyone I've lived with since has said I'm actually a fine roommate and it was definitely her being weird). I really don't understand the corporate American obsession with being an early riser. You don't want this.
So what time do you typically go to sleep. I'd love to get up a little earlier than i do currently. Typically I'm a night hour 2+am but i get up same time everyday
Have always gotten up early too. Now, newly retired, I am able to sleep until 5:00 daily. Go to sleep by 9:30 most nights. Love my time to myself in the morning. Get a bit upset when others wake up early and try to talk to me.
The natural way of humanity is awake during light, sleep during dark. Maybe a nap @~1400 if it's hot out. Electric lights in their entirety are unnatural.
@@DyceFreak While that is true, light and dark vary a lot throughout the year and I'm sure you don't go to bed at 6PM on winter... always depending on you latitude of course.
A tip for Chyna about naps... I always used to feel like this after a nap and I discovered that if I drink a big glass of water after I wake up I feel sooo much better, maybe it would help
I feel like I'm gonna die if I don't get at least 7 hours of sleep, and I still feel pretty poopy if I don't get 8 hours of sleep. Ideally, I'd sleep a full 8 hours every night if I could, but I typically get up after around 6 or 7 hours here lately.
I was a night owl until 3 years ago. Now I’m in bed by 10 up at 5 don’t use an alarm anymore. Early morning is like a different world, so quiet and peaceful.
I get up at 5:30am everyday to get a great walk in with the dog. Hearing the early birds and breathing in incredibly fresh air is absolutely amazing way to slowly start the day.
I'm with Chyna on this one. It's a nope from me! I'm definitely not an early morning person. I wish I was though, because I feel like I could get a lot done before everyone else wakes up.
I had a million reasons worked out why I was a night person. But the truth was, I was going to bed at 2 am, 3 am. And getting up at 12. In the end, my sister convinced me just to actually get my a$$ out of bed. For four years, I got up at 6 am went to bed like you at 9:30, and it absolutely transformed my life. My life was unquestionably 100% better. It takes you about a month or two of total discipline for your body clock to change.
even before jocko willink, david goggins and all other famous ex-military personalities advocated waking up early, I've been waking up at 4AM since college and I've discovered what WheezyWaiter did, "I'm already doin' it!" moments. Nowadays, it became the standard for me, I never wake up later than that unless I stayed up late to offset sleep. It's not for everybody, but for those that do, you can probably agree that waking up that early feels really sweet.
Something I love about Craig is that, when you space out during the line where he says the sponsor segment is starting - and because of my ADHD I have a permit to space out verified by doctors who substantiate their claims with certificates in frames (and also to make references no one will pick up on, but I digress) - and the ad read just becomes part of a funny part of the script. Good job Craig!
I have always always always been an early riser. It is the most peaceful serene part of the day. Love it. My daughter is the exact opposite. Different times work better for different people. Find you bliss time ❤
I slept about 3 hours before work. Napped on my lunch break. Napped right after I clocked out and took a 45 min nap if I felt tired midday. With ADHD I usually don't dream. With polyphasic sleep I would fall into REM sleep and dream immediately during these 45 minute naps
I asked a sleep scientist about this and he said the evidence suggests it’s less restorative than sleeping once at night (for the same amount of time slept)
Before retirement, I got up at 4 with my husband because he drove the UW shuttle 20 miles into Seattle with his fellows, who started early. That was 12 years ago & I still get up that early. In fact I usually arise between 3:15 to 3:30 a.m. and get to bed about 7:30 at night. I love this schedule, frankly. Sometimes I take a short nap during the day, but often not. The only thing that makes it challenging to arise so early is having to wait for hours before anything is open or my friends are up. This is especially noticeable when we go camping. 😅 We're always up before dawn. Nobody understands. 😢
Now that I am firmly middle aged, I am lucky if i get about 3 hours of sleep in a row. It's not great. Also, speaking of separate mattresses, one of the big secrets of success in my marriage has been my husband and I having our own sets of blankets. Sharing blankets was a nightmare and I don't want to ever go back to that.
ProTip in advance for the cooking-at-home-no-eating-out from someone who does this all the damn time: most of the time, ignore the pressure from the cooking community/foodies to make this amazing instagramy food. That’s for funzies. Real cooking-all-the-time only needs to be tasty and healthy as you like it, and as little effort as you want. It’s your food, make what’s good enough for you. Eschew the pressure to cook fancy. Unless you already enjoy doing that and it’s already fun for you. 🙂
Most meals that I make are one-bowl meals, like hearty soups, or casseroles, or cold salads. I make big batches of these, and portion them into Tupperware containers and microwave one per meal (or eat it cold, if that's the idea ). It is rarely pretty, but it means I don't have to cook every darn day! Such convenience!
I also feel worse after naps, plus it's INCREDIBLY hard for me to fall asleep during the day, but when I do I wake up feeling worse -- and with an uncommonly terrible taste in my mouth. I'd rather just push through till bed time. I've been pushing back my wakeup time a little bit every year and the earlier it gets, the more I like it haha. Most of this week I woke up at 5:30 even though I could technically sleep until like 7:15, even 7:30 if I wanted to rush. I think the love of early rising comes naturally with aging for some reason.
My summer job required me to wake up at 6:15am i went to sleep around 10-10:30pm. I would gym after work most days. this schedule made my days short. I wasn’t doing anything productive and often couldn’t do things with people because of my early bedtime. I was depressed at the time I would say that it does sort of curb depression just by keeping your days short and helping time pass although it does impede on your social life which is counter intuitive to helping depression.
I have gotten up at 4:00 am for going on a decade now. It allows me to work a couple hours, cook an hour, take care of my ducks and aquaponic fish, garden an hour, and clean, all before 9 am. In summer, here in Florida, that's about the time you wanna get out of the heat and humidity anyways!
I’ve been getting up at 3:15 am for years, and I love it. I can get loads done before work if it’s needed. I have time for a good breakfast. I can just take my time. No last second rushing around before flying out of the door. Plus your fully awake, and ready for the day. It takes a while to adapt, but I’d recommend it to anyone. 🙂👍
I would literally die if I got up at 4am and if I nap it ruins my sleep schedule. I have my me time in the evenings as I often have energy to burn off before going to bed. It’s different for everyone :)
This confirms for me that I'm a night owl. I don't "feel the energy" until about 11:00 am. If I have to be up earlier for something (such as work), I'll be up, but, yeah, I never feel like my best, most productive self until the afternoon. Just wired totally differently.
yeah same. Even when I get up late and am well rested, the first two hours I'm awake I'm more or less just fumbling my way back to sapience. If I try to exercise before I've been up for several hours, I get sick and miserable. My sleep schedule can gradually change if it needs to, but these things always seem to be true. I will NEVER voluntarily get up before 8am and I will NEVER feel truly awake until at least two hours after that.
Same for me. Having more time for myself sounds great, but getting up so early would be torture. It is already torture that work starts at 7 for me, the only solace is that I'm not giving my best hours to my job, because my brain doesn't work yet 😂 Only autopilot
Take it from an oldy, even before the days of shift work, always was a night person. I hafta be up before 5. Still go to bed around midnight. On my days off sleep in till 7 or 8. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that people who walk through this life entirely unaffected or kid themselves with many medications are the ones that sleep. I ain’t about that.
I started doing the 4 am wake up in the beginning of the year and I can't live without it now. I often go to bed at 8-9 pm. Wake up at 4 and I get every chore done (quietly) by 5:30 so that I can do what I want after before everyone else's wakes up.
I get up at 2:30 am for my job, which I actually love. I have more energy in the morning. Now that being said I go to bed at 6 pm so I miss a lot of evening things but this is my season of life.
Good video. The last few days I've been trying to shift my body clock to waking up a bit earlier so this was a nice inspiration. Something I noticed on the stretching -- I hope this is welcome -- is your upper body form on the lunge. Your spine stayed hunched, especially the thoracic (top bit near shoulders). I think for the lunge it is better to have the spine in slight extension, as this also gets a better thrust through the hips. If you can't reach the ground use blocks. It alos suggests you might be losing mobility in the spine or getting stuck in a hunched position which is something to avoid! Happy to do a video call sometime if you want a random internet stranger to give tips.
4:54, 6:01 | This guy's energy is off the charts. It makes me think that he has just downed an entire pot of coffee. 🤣🤣🤣 Shout out to all the epic naps out there!
I don't know about this 4am stuff, but I do really want to get back to waking up a half hour earlier than I need to so I can get a walk in. Always feels great, but it's just so hard to get started again once you stop.
Craig Benzine, I know this is off-topic, but I wanted to thank you for plugging your under-rated podcast with Mr. Greg Benson. It's one of the best podcasts I've ever consumed. It's way better than any lettuce I've consumed. I hope that one day you and Mr. Greg Benson receive all the notoriety that you deserve, especially for the very pertinent lettuce news that you bring to the discussion on occasion. I appreciate the frickin heck out of you two. You two have given me many hours of mirth and merriment through your podcast. Especially the one where you looked at your asshole for the first time. Love you guys!
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I've been doing 4AM Mon-Fri since August of 1979. Catch a train downtown to the exchange that leaves at 4:57 AM. It's a 40 mile ride. Get home a little after 5PM. Fall asleep on the train on the way home virtually everyday. But it's great because then I'm rested and can workout when I get home.
I used to like getting up a bit earlier to be able to do some yoga to start my day, but now that I'm pregnant, I can't do it anymore because when I get up too early, I just get some really bad nausea, even in my second trimester... 😢 Hope I'll be able to get back to normal after my baby is born!
I get up 2.5-3 hours before I start work each day, because I enjoy and also need that time. Pretty sure my co-workers think I'm crazy, especially the ones that roll out of bed and start work 10 minutes later, but that sounds horrible to me. I'd still be half asleep and trying to be productive! I have a couple cups of whatever caffeine, maybe go for a walk, watch a couple RUclips videos (which is literally what I'm doing now, I have 40 mins until work starts), maybe pick up a few things that need tidying, it's all very chill. My pre-work time is when I wake up gently, and I really miss it the odd time when I can't do it.
💯 . Up at 2am, gym 2:30 till 3:30. Work on my own hobbies etc until 6:30 am drive to work, get there at 6:45 ( I live in my car so I'm always 15min from anywhere). I start work at 8:am, half the company staff can't even get in on time and barely able to function. They think I'm nuts. 🙃🙏
@@TheUrban.Camper I honestly feel like it sets me up for the tone of the day as well. I'm not full of anxiety because I've been scared awake by some obnoxious alarm (I use a sunrise-simulating light, which also turns on bird sounds when the alarm time comes) and then I don't have to run around getting ready to head out. I used to get up and then 30 mins later was out the door (stopping at a coffee shop every morning for breakfast), then gogogo then lunch workout, then gogogo then home exhausted. Now I get up earlier, and I'm not exhausted at the end of the workday. Go figure.
@celticlass8573 That is it 💯 I use the sunrise clock. It lights up my whole car inside. It's like being on the sun. Once I started to video my failures and upload it, I had to face it. That removed my anxiety and self-doubt. Glad to have found your channel. 🙏
I wake up at 4 am for work Monday through Friday and I go to bed around 10 pm. Weekends I wake up between 6 and 8 am and go to bed around 11 at the very latest. No naps.
I used to offer this kind of wooden puzzle to my big brother at Christmas (one was a replica of a viole, à kind of cello) he passed away so that made me emotional… BUT still have to discover if waking up at 4 when you are not Marc Walberg is a good idea !!!
I've just started on a 5:30a wake up this week, it's been really nice to get up early and have the chance to work on stuff... Going to bed on time is the true challenge!!
*I GET UP AT SUNRISE EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR* my life now runs on the old Japanese time system that everything is so many hours after sunrise. The strange thing is to me sunrise is an absolute fixed time in the day now, and everyone else is weird for getting up at a different time every day. It's hard to express how humans are linked to the sunrise to someone who doesn't get up at sunrise every day. YOU GET UP AT A DIFFERENT TIME EVERY DAY...!!! Just cos mechanical time say 7am, biological time changes every day...!!!
I'm starting school and have to catch the bus between 6:10 and 6:45 in the morning, depending on the day. I'm probably gonna try and wake up at 5, just to be coherent and ready to face the cold. Your videos on the wake up challenge are very inspirational for the hell I'm about to get used to. Thanks!
I started waking up at 5:45 so I could workout and shower before work, but I started working out after work and still get up at 5:45 because it just feels so much better. Even in highschool I purposely got up and got to school by 6:30 even though class started at 8, because I wanted to have time to hangout before school (also we had to be up that early for drumline in the fall anyways so I figured why not be consistent).
I do the second sleep & didn’t realize it. It doesn’t matter what time I wake up, but there is a second sleep around 10 am. I’m much more pleasant for the rest of the day.
I am a 7am person. The 2 weeks i had to get up at 4am for work were the most miserable days of my life. It didn't help that it was in February, when it's miserably cold and dark and my workplace was so far away and the first bus would drop me off already late. It was a neurological rehab clinic on top of a hill in a forest and even tho watching the sun rise through snowy trees was beautiful, the work was hard, I was always exhausted and cold and I had next to no time off for myself cause I'd go to sleep around 7pm in order to survive the next day. I've found that 4am is my non functional time, even when doing night shifts, 4am is the time when my whole body realizes how actually tired I am and that I really ought to be sleeping. Thankfully that's just about the time we start doing more stuff actively besides observation and making sure everyone's still breathing, so that usually keeps me up.
Hi! I've been getting up early too and hitting the pavement - you have OSB, I have ORB - Operation Rebuild Barbarella. I'm always inspired by your experiments and challenges. Consistent persistence - with naps.
I've been doing 4 am for 4 years. No more insomnia. How is that? I also set an alarm for 8 pm to remind me to go to bed. I love my new schedule. 1st wash face and put on PJs. I never did that before. Then go to bed with eye mask. Enjoy.
Thing is, the only thing you’re sacrificing is the last three hours at night you spend drooling on the sofa watching Netflix snd feeling like a zombie. I LOVE getting up early, and I’m never going back!!!
I’ve noticed that on the days I stay in bed to wait before the bathroom is cleared I feel worse. Not bad, but not as good as other days. It’s the days I have to get up that are overall more better. It’s not 4 am and I think it’s not realistic to try in my life, but earlier is doable.
Getting up early is one of those habits that preciptates a bunch of other good habits-like exercise, eating properly, getting things done, going to bed on time-because it sets the tone for the rest of the day. Sleeping in, though not necessarily a bad thing when done in moderation, tends to set the opposite tone. But you do you.
It depends on if you're a morning person. The important thing is understanding when you have the most energy in the day and then using those hours to your advantage. There's nothing useful about telling people one habit done a specific way is the end all be all of good habits. If you hate mornings and are exhausted during the morning, getting up way earlier might just make things worse
@@Morepanthers Lots of those morning people tend to be judgmental that way. When I did 3rd shift in the hospital, we noticed that a lot of the toxic people worked the 1st shift. Those who were happy to be on 3rd shift were generally far more pleasant to be around. Of course, those regular morning types always assumed the opposite, that people working the 3rd shift were grumpy to be there. It's those outliers, those types who HAD to work night shift due to their own circumstances could be indeed bitter.
@garyhorsman Nah. Getting up early is just one of those virtue-signaling things by "morning people." They are probably envious or have disdain for those who love the night owl life, they who are generally more creative and fun to be around. People can still "get things done" regardless of when they sleep or wake up. I've done both 2nd and 3rd shifts and I adjusted, still got my workouts done, did my appointments and prepared my healthy meals from scratch. We could say people that wake up way too early and brag about it, lol, those types start to fade just after the noon mealtime.
@lumensauce3199 I get you. But I wouldn’t blanket judge people who get up early to be more productive as ‘virtue signaling’. It does work for many. At least for me, it does. Maybe not for you and you’re productive as a night person. If so, fantastic! Like I said, you do you. Happy holidays 🎅
You just reminded me that I was going to learn to do the splits with the goal of achieving it by New Year's and um I've only practised stretching twice so I don't think that goal date is happening but maybe I can achieve before next Summer. I would like to get up early I did early morning walks a couple of times in the summer saw some beautiful and peaceful sunrises and then um also stopped so...maybe i'll get back into it who knows.
I wake up at 330 4am everyday for a year an a half. I go to park/beach and meditate bt 5 530 Theres others there that do a gym class that early as well. So its cool to see the few early birds that get up around the same time. Its nice to warch sunrise everyday. But i must say it makes me feel so much better than sleeping inn.
I used to have a job where I'd start work at 10:30am, well pretty much my brain starts at 10:30am regardless of when I arrive. That job I'd get there at 10:15, so miss rush hours both ways, work at my most productive times and sleep in. Win win win.
In a fit of pique after oversleeping, I angrily decided to get up at 4am everyday purely out of spite. That was 6 years ago. Truly changed my life. The morning time is the best time.
I think waking up at 4am instead of a normal time sounds like torture. As an adult I’m realizing that I’m a 12am to 7am sleeper and then maybe a nap after work.
I’ve only been following you for a while, Craig, but I love your videos and humor so much 💯 I wish I could be your neighbor and do some of these trails with you and have dorky slow-mo high-fives at the end.
I went and get up super early. I do my 3 foreign language lessons. Then eat breakfast. Head out to my 12 shift at work. I like your videos. This one really hits home.
i was getting up at 5am for a while to gym and loved it! i want to get back into it but my room became a little disruptive so once i fix that i’ll go back to it. also though! the fact you did it every day might have been the thing i was missing? i only did it every other day which i thought would make it easier because i didn’t have to get up early all the time but maybe that was my downfall. loved the video! hilarious as always.
I wake up at 4 am on a regular basis. It was 6 am for years, but where I currently live it’s daylight by 4 in the summer, so I just kept that schedule year round. I’m normally a morning person, and I like having a few hours to myself before anyone else is up and about.
Thanks for this video! It's made me realize something about myself. I wake up early for work, but I haven't had the energy to do other things after work. I might try waking up even earlier so I can get some writing in befire work, rather than waiting for after
I really hate early mornings. I had to wakeup at 5:30-6 for years and i never ever got used to it. I was always tired and miserable. Im now a 'daylight with long bedtime' person, my ideal day is just waking and sleeping with the sun, but 8am-11-12pm will do just fine too
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I know it’s not nearly as early but I’ve been getting up at 6 every morning to practice and work on music, a full three hours before I have to work my day job. It’s literally the best thing I’ve ever done for my creativity and proficiency and I would recommend it to every creative, regardless of your medium. There’s something amazing about the special early hours before the world gets busy, the ability to focus. It’s wonderful. And this is coming from a lifetime late-riser.
I'm a musician myself, and I have always wanted to do the same thing. Reading your message is really encouraging, thank you ☺
What time do you normally go to sleep, if you don't mind me asking? I want to do this but I rarely reach bed before 12
@@ytht21it takes a while to adjust but you just try to go to bed earlier and earlier every night until you’re at 7-8 hours of sleep. Regular exercise helps and limiting caffeine.
@@ytht21it takes a while to adjust but you just try to go to bed earlier and earlier every night until you’re at 7-8 hours of sleep. Regular exercise helps and limiting caffeine.
I noticed when I do this I have way more focus on doing just about anything. I do it on my 3 day weekend every other week, but my brother started getting up early to play computer games after. He's up at 7am and goes to bed at 2am lately and it's frustrating when I want to work on stuff.
👍 Hey Wheez - how about a recap video of all the things you tried and which you still do - sometimes do - would never do again - etc. 🙂
For those asking, my naps vary in length but are often quite long. 2 hours maybe, which is why I call them "second sleep".
Hey wheezy what are the shopping details for the projector assembly kit plz? Gotta get one for a friend.
It's called ROKR Vitascope. That's all I know.@@rabyboby
Good for you
Holy Shit!!! You're the guy from Crash course government 🤯🤯🤯🤯 mind blown!!!
Craig I noticed in your straddle -split you are curving your back. This can cause low back pain. Think about keeping your chest up. This will help keep your back straight and you should feel the stretch more in your inner thighs than your low back.
Can't wait to see the stretching video! Stretch safely ❤
Stumbled on the benefits of getting up very early in grad school in my 20s, stopped in my 30s, then rediscovered it in my early 40s. I prefer to think of it as front-loading my day: instead of waking up, rushing to work, working 8-10 hours, and coming home too exhausted to exercise or cultivate my hobbies, I wake up very early (3am), meditate, exercise, walk the dog, and practice guitar everyday before my workday starts at 8am. Walking around my central city in the wee hours of the morning truly feels like I have the city all to myself, undisturbed. The tranquility shifts your perspective and you gain appreciation for spaces you are used to seeing bustling with people during the day.
Everything you just said I also do and for all those same reasons. Well I don't have a dog, and live in my car. Also found 2am was my best format.
Ah yes the city is so peaceful in the morning. Just me, the frozen corpse of yet another rough sleeper, and the serial killers.
I don't prioritize my career/job over my quality of life, so getting up early has always been my way of giving the best of myself to the things I love (exercise, reading, etc.). My job and the stresses that sometimes come with it can have the leftovers :)
I would love that kind of rhythm and am looking for a better one than my usual, at the moment. But if I may ask, how do you get your sleep? I have a commute and my work is pretty demanding and needs me alert.
I was a chronic late nighter. Eventually ended up being a 2/3am bed time person and it added up over time and created some BAD health issues. I started the switch 2 years ago and haven't looked back. The energy I have in those early awake hours are so much better than spare time in the evening. I'm now a 9:30pm bed time and 4:30/5am wake up. 100% recommend.
ME TOO - I had a million reasons worked out why I was a night person. But the truth was, I was going to bed at 2 am, 3 am. And getting up at 12. In the end, my sister convinced me just to actually get my a$$ out of bed. For four years, I got up at 6 am went to bed like you at 9:30, and it absolutely transformed my life. My life was unquestionably 100% better.
Then, for a weird thing to do, I started getting up 15 minutes before sunrise every day, and watching the sunrise, as I did tai chi on the balcony, and that again was a big big improvement in my life. I'm a self-employed author, so I can do these things. But my life now runs on the old Japanese time system that everything is so many hours after sunrise.
The strange thing is to me sunrise is an absolute fixed time in the day now, and everyone else is weird for getting up at a different time every day. It's hard to express how humans are linked to the sunrise to someone who doesn't get up at sunrise every day.
@@piccalillipit9211 thanks for sharing and good on you for making the change!! You're so right about sunrise!
That was something that helped me switch too :)
I started going for a walk along the beach to watch the sunrise because it was the only thing wondrous and beautiful enough to motivate me to get out that early.
@@stackels97 I live next to the beach in Bulgaria - I cant conveniently get to it as there is a lake in between a bit like they have in Florida. So Im like 400 yards from the beach but have to go 5 miles to get there LOL.
But I watch the sunrise over the sea every morning - its the one amazing thing in the world that is GENUINELY FREE...!!!
Sunrise is the anchor point of my life now, and Im not being glib.
I am a night person and whenever I try to change that, I don't notice any benefits, I'm just more tired. Getting by just fine going to sleep late and waking up late. What kind of health issues you experienced, if I may ask?
@@AnssiEriksson There's just a lot of virtue-signaling on being early birds, early risers. Some people are night owls by nature. As long as they sleep well and consistently, are happy, they will be ok. The world still needs night people for either creativity or in the work force (to keep us safe and other such emergency services). I will say this, the earlier people wake up like at 4:00am...the faster they will fade during the day after mid-day lunch, lol. And this guy goes to bed at midnight or something and says it's a wonderful thing to get up at 4:00 in the morning? Ok...
I find the nap jokes very relatable- I have horrible insomnia and am on prescription meds that cause me to get absurdly sleepy, so despite being in my twenties I have to schedule my day around having a midday nap. My remote job recently forced everyone to go back into the office and my health has been suffering because of it. Working on finding a way to get income where I can make my own schedule! Your sleep videos are some of my favorites, I really appreciate them.
Favorite quote: “but I would enjoy robust public transit”. It just really hits home.
Man I totally agree.
If it wasn’t for my family I’d be in the big city fer sure.
I mean I love the countryside but being able to ditch the car & take transit is something I miss.
I can never fall asleep during a nap, no matter how horribly I've slept the night before, but just the act of lying down for 20 minutes, closing my eyes, and listening to music is extremely restful and is a vital part of my daily routine 🙌
my roomate is the same and once he gets to awake after sleep he cant fall back asleep. sometimes I think my can sleep everywhere skill is more a curse 😂 I dont even need to lay down just stay still for a second and there it is
Likewise. I’m normally a morning person, but I once took a job working graveyard shift (11 pm to 7am), thinking that if I was up all night I’d sleep all day. Right? Nuh-uh. I could NOT sleep during the day, no matter how exhausted I was. I could doze for a few hours, but never really deep sleep. I quit after six months when my body was trying to take micro-naps while I was driving. Totally screwed up my biorhythms for years, and I still have sleeping issues.
I feel the same way about late night hours as others do about early morning hours. I love the feeling of being the only one awake in the house, the quiet, it’s just a wonderfully private time..
I get up this early naturally...which means I fall asleep very early naturally. It's genuinely been a nightmare for my social life for pretty much my entire life, to the extent that my first roommate kicked me out because of our extremely different sleep schedules (everyone I've lived with since has said I'm actually a fine roommate and it was definitely her being weird). I really don't understand the corporate American obsession with being an early riser. You don't want this.
So what time do you typically go to sleep. I'd love to get up a little earlier than i do currently. Typically I'm a night hour 2+am but i get up same time everyday
Have always gotten up early too. Now, newly retired, I am able to sleep until 5:00 daily. Go to sleep by 9:30 most nights. Love my time to myself in the morning. Get a bit upset when others wake up early and try to talk to me.
The natural way of humanity is awake during light, sleep during dark. Maybe a nap @~1400 if it's hot out. Electric lights in their entirety are unnatural.
@@DyceFreak While that is true, light and dark vary a lot throughout the year and I'm sure you don't go to bed at 6PM on winter... always depending on you latitude of course.
@@DyceFreak look into chronotypes. This is not true.
A tip for Chyna about naps... I always used to feel like this after a nap and I discovered that if I drink a big glass of water after I wake up I feel sooo much better, maybe it would help
You learned what it's like to be in your 70s! Love your content, thanks.
I feel like I'm gonna die if I don't get at least 7 hours of sleep, and I still feel pretty poopy if I don't get 8 hours of sleep. Ideally, I'd sleep a full 8 hours every night if I could, but I typically get up after around 6 or 7 hours here lately.
I was a night owl until 3 years ago. Now I’m in bed by 10 up at 5 don’t use an alarm anymore. Early morning is like a different world, so quiet and peaceful.
I get up at 5:30am everyday to get a great walk in with the dog. Hearing the early birds and breathing in incredibly fresh air is absolutely amazing way to slowly start the day.
Winter makes this all harder with no sun for 4 more hours.
I'm with Chyna on this one. It's a nope from me! I'm definitely not an early morning person. I wish I was though, because I feel like I could get a lot done before everyone else wakes up.
It's one of those things where you hate doing it, but love it once you're up. The few times I've done it
Well, on the other hand you can get a lot of things done _after_ everyone else goes to sleep. That's the thing, the days have 24 hours for everyone.
I had a million reasons worked out why I was a night person. But the truth was, I was going to bed at 2 am, 3 am. And getting up at 12. In the end, my sister convinced me just to actually get my a$$ out of bed. For four years, I got up at 6 am went to bed like you at 9:30, and it absolutely transformed my life. My life was unquestionably 100% better.
It takes you about a month or two of total discipline for your body clock to change.
even before jocko willink, david goggins and all other famous ex-military personalities advocated waking up early, I've been waking up at 4AM since college and I've discovered what WheezyWaiter did, "I'm already doin' it!" moments. Nowadays, it became the standard for me, I never wake up later than that unless I stayed up late to offset sleep. It's not for everybody, but for those that do, you can probably agree that waking up that early feels really sweet.
Alright, you got an out-loud chuckle from me for “slapping his lashes.”
He got me with "It"
He had me at "hello"
Something I love about Craig is that, when you space out during the line where he says the sponsor segment is starting - and because of my ADHD I have a permit to space out verified by doctors who substantiate their claims with certificates in frames (and also to make references no one will pick up on, but I digress) - and the ad read just becomes part of a funny part of the script. Good job Craig!
I loved all the old style jokes in this video. Starts my day off with good vibes ❤
I have always always always been an early riser. It is the most peaceful serene part of the day. Love it. My daughter is the exact opposite. Different times work better for different people. Find you bliss time ❤
Title says 4am, thumbnail says 4pm lol
Ooops. Fixed.
Did you ever try polyphasic sleep. I used it to survive 3 rd shift at work while running a pet rescue during the day
I slept about 3 hours before work. Napped on my lunch break. Napped right after I clocked out and took a 45 min nap if I felt tired midday. With ADHD I usually don't dream. With polyphasic sleep I would fall into REM sleep and dream immediately during these 45 minute naps
I asked a sleep scientist about this and he said the evidence suggests it’s less restorative than sleeping once at night (for the same amount of time slept)
Before retirement, I got up at 4 with my husband because he drove the UW shuttle 20 miles into Seattle with his fellows, who started early. That was 12 years ago & I still get up that early. In fact I usually arise between 3:15 to 3:30 a.m. and get to bed about 7:30 at night. I love this schedule, frankly. Sometimes I take a short nap during the day, but often not. The only thing that makes it challenging to arise so early is having to wait for hours before anything is open or my friends are up. This is especially noticeable when we go camping. 😅 We're always up before dawn. Nobody understands. 😢
Now that I am firmly middle aged, I am lucky if i get about 3 hours of sleep in a row.
It's not great.
Also, speaking of separate mattresses, one of the big secrets of success in my marriage has been my husband and I having our own sets of blankets. Sharing blankets was a nightmare and I don't want to ever go back to that.
Another plus to waking up early is having an excuse to go to bed super early
I need way more sleep or I don’t feel good. I need 7 1/2 - 8 hrs. I’m always amazed by people who feel ok on so much less.
There was an element of old Wheezy. Love it! We need the clones back! (I miss quiet clone) - Maybe even the whale tank
ProTip in advance for the cooking-at-home-no-eating-out from someone who does this all the damn time: most of the time, ignore the pressure from the cooking community/foodies to make this amazing instagramy food. That’s for funzies. Real cooking-all-the-time only needs to be tasty and healthy as you like it, and as little effort as you want. It’s your food, make what’s good enough for you. Eschew the pressure to cook fancy. Unless you already enjoy doing that and it’s already fun for you. 🙂
Most meals that I make are one-bowl meals, like hearty soups, or casseroles, or cold salads. I make big batches of these, and portion them into Tupperware containers and microwave one per meal (or eat it cold, if that's the idea ). It is rarely pretty, but it means I don't have to cook every darn day! Such convenience!
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I also feel worse after naps, plus it's INCREDIBLY hard for me to fall asleep during the day, but when I do I wake up feeling worse -- and with an uncommonly terrible taste in my mouth. I'd rather just push through till bed time. I've been pushing back my wakeup time a little bit every year and the earlier it gets, the more I like it haha. Most of this week I woke up at 5:30 even though I could technically sleep until like 7:15, even 7:30 if I wanted to rush. I think the love of early rising comes naturally with aging for some reason.
My summer job required me to wake up at 6:15am i went to sleep around 10-10:30pm. I would gym after work most days. this schedule made my days short. I wasn’t doing anything productive and often couldn’t do things with people because of my early bedtime. I was depressed at the time I would say that it does sort of curb depression just by keeping your days short and helping time pass although it does impede on your social life which is counter intuitive to helping depression.
I have gotten up at 4:00 am for going on a decade now. It allows me to work a couple hours, cook an hour, take care of my ducks and aquaponic fish, garden an hour, and clean, all before 9 am. In summer, here in Florida, that's about the time you wanna get out of the heat and humidity anyways!
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Hey Craig I like your videos, glad to see you are at it again :)
0:31 Wait a second, did you say….”MYYY WIIIIIFEEEE”?!?! **Borat Voice**
that tree in the background at 2:38 is so beautiful
I’ve been getting up at 3:15 am for years, and I love it. I can get loads done before work if it’s needed. I have time for a good breakfast. I can just take my time. No last second rushing around before flying out of the door. Plus your fully awake, and ready for the day. It takes a while to adapt, but I’d recommend it to anyone. 🙂👍
💯. I tired 4am but it felt off to me. Then I did 2am and just like that my life changed.
I would literally die if I got up at 4am and if I nap it ruins my sleep schedule. I have my me time in the evenings as I often have energy to burn off before going to bed. It’s different for everyone :)
So true, I do 2am and it is just great for me. While my friends think it's stupid. Wait I've moved passed them 😁
That was a great video,Craig! You had me hooked from the start to the end. It just flowed so nicely.
"Sometimes I'm in a phase where I wanna improve, sometimes I wanna let loose. It's important to return to it." Yes!!!! So much yes. I felt that.
This confirms for me that I'm a night owl. I don't "feel the energy" until about 11:00 am. If I have to be up earlier for something (such as work), I'll be up, but, yeah, I never feel like my best, most productive self until the afternoon. Just wired totally differently.
yeah same. Even when I get up late and am well rested, the first two hours I'm awake I'm more or less just fumbling my way back to sapience. If I try to exercise before I've been up for several hours, I get sick and miserable. My sleep schedule can gradually change if it needs to, but these things always seem to be true. I will NEVER voluntarily get up before 8am and I will NEVER feel truly awake until at least two hours after that.
Same for me. Having more time for myself sounds great, but getting up so early would be torture. It is already torture that work starts at 7 for me, the only solace is that I'm not giving my best hours to my job, because my brain doesn't work yet 😂 Only autopilot
Take it from an oldy, even before the days of shift work, always was a night person. I hafta be up before 5. Still go to bed around midnight. On my days off sleep in till 7 or 8. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that people who walk through this life entirely unaffected or kid themselves with many medications are the ones that sleep. I ain’t about that.
I started doing the 4 am wake up in the beginning of the year and I can't live without it now. I often go to bed at 8-9 pm. Wake up at 4 and I get every chore done (quietly) by 5:30 so that I can do what I want after before everyone else's wakes up.
That's exactly why 💯, I start at 2am, found it hard to get up at 4am. 🤔
I get up at 2:30 am for my job, which I actually love. I have more energy in the morning. Now that being said I go to bed at 6 pm so I miss a lot of evening things but this is my season of life.
I used to work at Starbucks at 4 am for a year, I would take a nap at 10 am after work and I had the rest of my day to do soooo much!
Yeah but going to sleep at 8pm😅😅😅
Good video. The last few days I've been trying to shift my body clock to waking up a bit earlier so this was a nice inspiration.
Something I noticed on the stretching -- I hope this is welcome -- is your upper body form on the lunge. Your spine stayed hunched, especially the thoracic (top bit near shoulders). I think for the lunge it is better to have the spine in slight extension, as this also gets a better thrust through the hips. If you can't reach the ground use blocks. It alos suggests you might be losing mobility in the spine or getting stuck in a hunched position which is something to avoid! Happy to do a video call sometime if you want a random internet stranger to give tips.
I hadn't listened to piano in a while so it was lovely to hear Schubert for a bit there!
the amount of dad jokes and puns you put into your videos is astounding. you're such a dad. i mean, you are. but also... you get what i mean.
4:54, 6:01 | This guy's energy is off the charts. It makes me think that he has just downed an entire pot of coffee. 🤣🤣🤣
Shout out to all the epic naps out there!
Wait...there's a 4 a.m.??
Thats bedtime isnt it??
Really loving your vids my man. And even more recently….awesome
Been waiting for sooooo long, for this one. ❤
I don't know about this 4am stuff, but I do really want to get back to waking up a half hour earlier than I need to so I can get a walk in. Always feels great, but it's just so hard to get started again once you stop.
Craig Benzine, I know this is off-topic, but I wanted to thank you for plugging your under-rated podcast with Mr. Greg Benson. It's one of the best podcasts I've ever consumed. It's way better than any lettuce I've consumed. I hope that one day you and Mr. Greg Benson receive all the notoriety that you deserve, especially for the very pertinent lettuce news that you bring to the discussion on occasion. I appreciate the frickin heck out of you two. You two have given me many hours of mirth and merriment through your podcast. Especially the one where you looked at your asshole for the first time. Love you guys!
I laughed way harder at the Doctor Sleep joke than I expected!
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I've been doing 4AM Mon-Fri since August of 1979. Catch a train downtown to the exchange that leaves at 4:57 AM. It's a 40 mile ride. Get home a little after 5PM. Fall asleep on the train on the way home virtually everyday. But it's great because then I'm rested and can workout when I get home.
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I used to like getting up a bit earlier to be able to do some yoga to start my day, but now that I'm pregnant, I can't do it anymore because when I get up too early, I just get some really bad nausea, even in my second trimester... 😢 Hope I'll be able to get back to normal after my baby is born!
Loved this video so much, you’re sense of humour is the best Craig! 😂 luv from Australia 🇦🇺 Xx
I get up 2.5-3 hours before I start work each day, because I enjoy and also need that time. Pretty sure my co-workers think I'm crazy, especially the ones that roll out of bed and start work 10 minutes later, but that sounds horrible to me. I'd still be half asleep and trying to be productive! I have a couple cups of whatever caffeine, maybe go for a walk, watch a couple RUclips videos (which is literally what I'm doing now, I have 40 mins until work starts), maybe pick up a few things that need tidying, it's all very chill. My pre-work time is when I wake up gently, and I really miss it the odd time when I can't do it.
💯 . Up at 2am, gym 2:30 till 3:30. Work on my own hobbies etc until 6:30 am drive to work, get there at 6:45 ( I live in my car so I'm always 15min from anywhere). I start work at 8:am, half the company staff can't even get in on time and barely able to function. They think I'm nuts. 🙃🙏
@@TheUrban.Camper I honestly feel like it sets me up for the tone of the day as well. I'm not full of anxiety because I've been scared awake by some obnoxious alarm (I use a sunrise-simulating light, which also turns on bird sounds when the alarm time comes) and then I don't have to run around getting ready to head out. I used to get up and then 30 mins later was out the door (stopping at a coffee shop every morning for breakfast), then gogogo then lunch workout, then gogogo then home exhausted. Now I get up earlier, and I'm not exhausted at the end of the workday. Go figure.
@celticlass8573 That is it 💯 I use the sunrise clock. It lights up my whole car inside. It's like being on the sun. Once I started to video my failures and upload it, I had to face it. That removed my anxiety and self-doubt. Glad to have found your channel. 🙏
I wake up at 4 am for work Monday through Friday and I go to bed around 10 pm. Weekends I wake up between 6 and 8 am and go to bed around 11 at the very latest.
No naps.
I used to offer this kind of wooden puzzle to my big brother at Christmas (one was a replica of a viole, à kind of cello) he passed away so that made me emotional… BUT still have to discover if waking up at 4 when you are not Marc Walberg is a good idea !!!
I'm only a minute in and I'm loving the content, banger video as always Craig
I've just started on a 5:30a wake up this week, it's been really nice to get up early and have the chance to work on stuff... Going to bed on time is the true challenge!!
Can you try theAndrew Hubberman morning routine
*I GET UP AT SUNRISE EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR* my life now runs on the old Japanese time system that everything is so many hours after sunrise.
The strange thing is to me sunrise is an absolute fixed time in the day now, and everyone else is weird for getting up at a different time every day. It's hard to express how humans are linked to the sunrise to someone who doesn't get up at sunrise every day. YOU GET UP AT A DIFFERENT TIME EVERY DAY...!!! Just cos mechanical time say 7am, biological time changes every day...!!!
I'm starting school and have to catch the bus between 6:10 and 6:45 in the morning, depending on the day. I'm probably gonna try and wake up at 5, just to be coherent and ready to face the cold. Your videos on the wake up challenge are very inspirational for the hell I'm about to get used to. Thanks!
"I'm not some stupid clone" is a reference only the OGs will get.
I don’t have time for the second sleep but do very much want to get folks on the early train! It is great. Period. Been doing it for a year. Wicked
slapping those lashes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
also it's eleanor DOZE-evelt, obviously
I started waking up at 5:45 so I could workout and shower before work, but I started working out after work and still get up at 5:45 because it just feels so much better. Even in highschool I purposely got up and got to school by 6:30 even though class started at 8, because I wanted to have time to hangout before school (also we had to be up that early for drumline in the fall anyways so I figured why not be consistent).
Not me watching this at 4:30am cause I gotta go to work a job I hate and am debating calling out 😂 I feel called out lol
4:00 is normal wake-up time for me. But i go to bed at like 8:00 pm like a kindergardener (which i also kind of like)
I do the second sleep & didn’t realize it.
It doesn’t matter what time I wake up, but there is a second sleep around 10 am. I’m much more pleasant for the rest of the day.
I am a 7am person. The 2 weeks i had to get up at 4am for work were the most miserable days of my life. It didn't help that it was in February, when it's miserably cold and dark and my workplace was so far away and the first bus would drop me off already late. It was a neurological rehab clinic on top of a hill in a forest and even tho watching the sun rise through snowy trees was beautiful, the work was hard, I was always exhausted and cold and I had next to no time off for myself cause I'd go to sleep around 7pm in order to survive the next day.
I've found that 4am is my non functional time, even when doing night shifts, 4am is the time when my whole body realizes how actually tired I am and that I really ought to be sleeping. Thankfully that's just about the time we start doing more stuff actively besides observation and making sure everyone's still breathing, so that usually keeps me up.
2:24 this whole rant was AWFUL for my mental health but god I hope to have a relationship as secure as yours one day.
I really appreciate Craig putting an imagine of all his references. Many times I'm watching other people's videos I don't get half of the jokes 😅
Hi! I've been getting up early too and hitting the pavement - you have OSB, I have ORB - Operation Rebuild Barbarella. I'm always inspired by your experiments and challenges. Consistent persistence - with naps.
I've been doing 4 am for 4 years. No more insomnia. How is that? I also set an alarm for 8 pm to remind me to go to bed. I love my new schedule. 1st wash face and put on PJs. I never did that before. Then go to bed with eye mask. Enjoy.
Thing is, the only thing you’re sacrificing is the last three hours at night you spend drooling on the sofa watching Netflix snd feeling like a zombie.
I LOVE getting up early, and I’m never going back!!!
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Damn what a prefect colour progression on that tree @2:38
I’ve noticed that on the days I stay in bed to wait before the bathroom is cleared I feel worse. Not bad, but not as good as other days. It’s the days I have to get up that are overall more better. It’s not 4 am and I think it’s not realistic to try in my life, but earlier is doable.
“Doctor Sleep, more like” COUNTING SHEEP
It was right there, either you’re trolling or the sleep deprivation really got to you! 😂
Getting up early is one of those habits that preciptates a bunch of other good habits-like exercise, eating properly, getting things done, going to bed on time-because it sets the tone for the rest of the day. Sleeping in, though not necessarily a bad thing when done in moderation, tends to set the opposite tone. But you do you.
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It depends on if you're a morning person. The important thing is understanding when you have the most energy in the day and then using those hours to your advantage. There's nothing useful about telling people one habit done a specific way is the end all be all of good habits. If you hate mornings and are exhausted during the morning, getting up way earlier might just make things worse
@@Morepanthers Lots of those morning people tend to be judgmental that way. When I did 3rd shift in the hospital, we noticed that a lot of the toxic people worked the 1st shift. Those who were happy to be on 3rd shift were generally far more pleasant to be around. Of course, those regular morning types always assumed the opposite, that people working the 3rd shift were grumpy to be there. It's those outliers, those types who HAD to work night shift due to their own circumstances could be indeed bitter.
@garyhorsman Nah. Getting up early is just one of those virtue-signaling things by "morning people." They are probably envious or have disdain for those who love the night owl life, they who are generally more creative and fun to be around. People can still "get things done" regardless of when they sleep or wake up. I've done both 2nd and 3rd shifts and I adjusted, still got my workouts done, did my appointments and prepared my healthy meals from scratch. We could say people that wake up way too early and brag about it, lol, those types start to fade just after the noon mealtime.
@lumensauce3199 I get you. But I wouldn’t blanket judge people who get up early to be more productive as ‘virtue signaling’. It does work for many. At least for me, it does. Maybe not for you and you’re productive as a night person. If so, fantastic! Like I said, you do you. Happy holidays 🎅
You just reminded me that I was going to learn to do the splits with the goal of achieving it by New Year's and um I've only practised stretching twice so I don't think that goal date is happening but maybe I can achieve before next Summer. I would like to get up early I did early morning walks a couple of times in the summer saw some beautiful and peaceful sunrises and then um also stopped so...maybe i'll get back into it who knows.
I wake up at 330 4am everyday for a year an a half. I go to park/beach and meditate bt 5 530 Theres others there that do a gym class that early as well. So its cool to see the few early birds that get up around the same time. Its nice to warch sunrise everyday. But i must say it makes me feel so much better than sleeping inn.
2:38 look at those autumnal GRADIENTS
I used to have a job where I'd start work at 10:30am, well pretty much my brain starts at 10:30am regardless of when I arrive. That job I'd get there at 10:15, so miss rush hours both ways, work at my most productive times and sleep in. Win win win.
In a fit of pique after oversleeping, I angrily decided to get up at 4am everyday purely out of spite. That was 6 years ago. Truly changed my life.
The morning time is the best time.
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I think waking up at 4am instead of a normal time sounds like torture. As an adult I’m realizing that I’m a 12am to 7am sleeper and then maybe a nap after work.
I get up at 4:30 and go for a walk before the world is awake and it’s the best!!
"I'm not some stupid clone" as a long-time wheezywaiter viewer, I'm not convinced
We all know real Craig fell into an alligator pit a long time ago
Yes. Donor Craig was startled by an explosion, and fell into an alligator pit. It was a Wednesday.
I’ve only been following you for a while, Craig, but I love your videos and humor so much 💯
I wish I could be your neighbor and do some of these trails with you and have dorky slow-mo high-fives at the end.
I went and get up super early. I do my 3 foreign language lessons. Then eat breakfast. Head out to my 12 shift at work. I like your videos. This one really hits home.
(In my non-judgemental voice, but very curious) Do you use two separate beds? If so, is there a video about that?
i was getting up at 5am for a while to gym and loved it! i want to get back into it but my room became a little disruptive so once i fix that i’ll go back to it. also though! the fact you did it every day might have been the thing i was missing? i only did it every other day which i thought would make it easier because i didn’t have to get up early all the time but maybe that was my downfall. loved the video! hilarious as always.
Hello Whezzy.
You should take a epic nap right after you get up in the morning...
Greets to you and your family
I love being a morning person but I have little kids still sleep is so precious for me now.
I wake up at 4 am on a regular basis. It was 6 am for years, but where I currently live it’s daylight by 4 in the summer, so I just kept that schedule year round. I’m normally a morning person, and I like having a few hours to myself before anyone else is up and about.
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Thanks for this video! It's made me realize something about myself. I wake up early for work, but I haven't had the energy to do other things after work. I might try waking up even earlier so I can get some writing in befire work, rather than waiting for after
I really hate early mornings. I had to wakeup at 5:30-6 for years and i never ever got used to it. I was always tired and miserable. Im now a 'daylight with long bedtime' person, my ideal day is just waking and sleeping with the sun, but 8am-11-12pm will do just fine too
Interesting picture there in the background on the wall during the puzzle, Greg! Lol