Early Morning Exercise Person? Not me.

Exercise, yes  Early morning?  Not so much.
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Yeah, I am not a 5:30-6 am exercise person.  Maybe by 6:30 I'll be awake enough not to trip over my own feet.  Maybe.

We don't all have to get moving this early.  I know how I am, and a morning person I am not.  Trying to
force it makes me resentful and ready to quit.  I won't focus on what I'm doing, but on how much I hate being up and active other than the usual morning thing.

But that's okay. Knowing that this isn't my style is okay.  Trying to force it when I have the option of flexibility is not okay.  Making this time my time to reflect and awaken is good.  Having breakfast (Shakeology with almond & coconut butter, ice, and unsweetened almond milk - noms!) and checking my calendar this morning is more my style. I like to ease into my mornings is I can.  The alternative does not bode well.  For me or anyone in my path.

So why am I up this early?  Hubs is starting a new routine and that means I'm starting one, too. I don't have to like it, but I am supporting him.  So I'm awake for now.  And working a little.  Kinda.  Checking the calendar and completing a little research isn't going to kill me.  I don't think it will, anyway.  Ask me again in a few hours.

Oy, I digress.  How did a discussion on morning exercise turn into something about work?  Oh yeah, I'm not completely awake.  Wow.

Anyway, exercise is important to me.  Whether it's a walk, strength training, yoga, pt, or sweat time with my fav videos, I need it.  Finding the optimal time for me to exercise mindfully is important.  And the early hour wake-up calls are not optimal for me.  I'm a late morning type.  It's when I'm more functional, so it's when I need to move.  The mid-morning or early afternoon coffee break is my sweat time.  I fel better that
way and move better that way.  And don't want to strangle anyone that way.

So here I am, coming out.  I am not a morning person and that's okay.

Your turn.  When do you schedule your time to move?  There are not wrong answers; just different ones.