Day 1

Today is the first day I tried waking up at 4am to work up.  I didn't actually get out of bed until 4:45 or so, but it's a start. 

I got dressed in the outfit I laid out the night before, setup the coffee maker to make coffee at 6:00am, got some water and headed down to the basement.  

The previous owners of this house left an old style Tube TV with only an RCA input and coaxial.  Last night I fashioned a DVD player and the only thing I could find was a Jillian Micheals DVD.  I turned it on this morning and found it wasn't really for me, that and I had no remote to navigate the DVD menu.  I stretched on the foam roller for a bit then got on the treadmill for 1 mile.  I also got my laptop out and fired up netflix - found the original series of Mako mermaids and watched it.   Overall it was ok.  I used my apple watch to keep tabs on my heart rate and listened to how my body was feeling.  After that I did some 3 sets of 10 on dumbell press, then some biceps curls on each arm. 

I stretched out a bit felt like I was done.  I wanted to start out slow and I think this was a good start.  I’ve never been a morning person but it makes sense with kid and job that early AM is a good time to workout.  I was inspired to try this after Mark Whalberg posted his daily routine where he gets up at like 2:30am or something.  That seems a little much for me, but I have read that a lot of successful people do get up early (Tim Cook, various CEOs, etc)