My bird dog wakes me at 7:30 every morning. The perfect alarm clock. We then do a neighbor walk and afterward a cup of coffee.

I'm early 40s, something I've noticed over the years when I lean out for summer or powerlifting.

Main deal is I cut carbs. I'm for sure allergic to wheat. In the last 5-6 years I've incorporated Intermittent Fasting, or more specifically I stop eating at 7PM and eat breakfast at 9AM.

What happens is, each day that goes by I get up earlier. This never happens to me otherwise. By Friday I find myself getting up at 5 or even before that. I also have energy throughout the day. Eating that way doesn't make me tired. Then I drink beer on the weekend and it starts over. Monday I get up at like 6:30 which is still early. Tues 6. Etc etc. If I eat a pizza and stuff with the beers, I'm even foggier and more sluggish. The clarity of keeping it clean is crazy too. It's night and day difference.

I'm to the point I try to stick to this full time now. I love it. Morning is the best time. I go for long walk or run, workout, whatever.

All that to say, diet seems to play a huge role in this type of thing for me. Cleaner it is, more energy in general but less sleep I need too. I actually thought last week, I think I understand how Jocko does it now!

Thanks for all the replies. I go to work at 7 because I'm up, and I go home for lunch and the extra time is nice. 1. Because my boss doesn't have an internal clock. To him its always 8 AM Monday morning. If you're 15 minutes into lunch if he needs something lunch is over. 2. About 4 years ago I found it helps if I can get off my feet for about a half an hour. Last year I went to the doc looking for why I was so fatigued. Ran a battery of tests. Every thing fine. At that point it had to be the second covid shot.

If you use it, give up caffeine. It took me 3 months to slowly give it up, but now when I wake up, I'm good to go. No groggy dull headed issues. You can drink decaf if you like to continue the ritual, or try different teas without caffeine.

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Normal (i just turned 60).

My wife wakes up the happiest most energetic (read, talkative) as soon as her feet hit the floor.

Takes me all of 60 minutes to be ready to say, "good morning."

Only thing going my way currently, a traffic jamb is when the dogs demand their morning scratches.

Some folks wake up saying "Good morning, Lord!" and others say "Good Lord, it's morning!". I fall in the latter camp.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Never was a morning person... Sleep in late every day. Hell, I don't even allow Dr appointments before lunch!

Yea, the struggle is real but I do work hard to stay active... I do something EVERY day toward that goal... for example, today I changed out a burnt out light bulb in a lamp!

Are we related?
Same drill here! I retired 14 years ago this month.

When I retired at age 67 I took off my watch. Alarm clock is only to get me up for church on Sunday.

flashguy

I worked nights for several years after high school and during college. It screwed me up as ever since then it’s been difficult to get to sleep before midnight and even harder to get up before 7am.

And no matter how much sleep I get, I still feel like I’m coming out of a coma. I stagger out of bed and it takes me close to an hour to fully wake up.

On the other hand, I call the wife the Energizer Bunny. She wakes up at 5:30am every morning, jumps up and is doing three things at once.

I am 59. I also wake up on my own around 6:30 to 7:00. I shower and shave and go to work. I am pretty well functional when I wake up, without much "warm-up" time.

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If you use it, give up caffeine. It took me 3 months to slowly give it up, but now when I wake up, I'm good to go. No groggy dull headed issues. You can drink decaf if you like to continue the ritual, or try different teas without caffeine.

When I was a kid, I woke up groggy and dull headed. I was still that way when I entered college.

Then I went in the Army and started drinking coffee for the first time in my life. It made absolutely no difference in how I woke up and felt.

I'm 71 and still working a full-time job. My natural wake-up time is 0445. My wife wakes up at 0300. When we go to the gym, we get up at 0130 so that we can be done and home by 0300, where she starts her daily routine. On weekends, I'm up by 0500. If I sleep in, like 0600, I feel like the day is half gone!

She goes to bed around 2000 and me about 2100. We do some hiking and are on the trail about 0730. We reach our destination and come back around 1100. We don't see too many folks out when we start, but coming back, we see the slackers! LOL

I'm 64. I'm up at 4:30 weekdays and in the office by 7:15 where half my employees are half my age. Both knees replaced in the last 5 or so years. No real issues and they feel great. Hoping to be done in another year assuming my 401k does not turn into a 201k.

I really think routine is key. I have already thought that in retirement I will continue the same morning routine which includes a healthy breakfast and meditation.

Normal for your age? I think it could be genetics. My Dad is 94 and is in his office by 9:00 each day.

I turn 65 in a few weeks. I work 10 hours a day, in the office by 7 am, up between 5-5:30. Had a hip replacement in November and took 5 days off, heart surgery last week of December. Back on January 2nd. I feel okay, hope to live long enough to retire in a few years. Coffee keeps me going.

I turn 64 next month. I was born a natural second shifter. I usually hit the rack about 01:30 and get up about 09:00. The past two mornings I had to be up at 05:20 and hated it greatly. Depending on the day and if i have county commission duties, I get home between 20:30 and 22:00. I've attained a place in my life where i can mostly run on my own schedule. I work 12 hours overnight every other week at my EMS side hustle. Those are usually days I'm up for about 23 hours straight.

I do jujitsu regularly and manage to keep up on the mats with the "kids" that are 20 to 30 years younger than me. At my last check up, my PCP told me to just keep doing what I was doing.

If those hours work for you, more power to you

I am 76, nothing has changed in sleep mode, still work a full time job.
Only thing Bobby can not do alot, like when I was 21.
All in All not much has changed.