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4/21/25 - You have to wake up at 4 am

I've never really understood why the fitness industry has such a boner for waking up at 4:00 in the morning.

"While you're still in bed I'm already up and grinding."

Except we all basically need 6 to 8 hours of sleep per night to be able to function at a high level over the long term, give or take a smidge in one direction to the other based on personal idiosyncrasies.

Now call me crazy, but if you're waking up at 4:00 in the morning I have to assume that you're going to bed no later than 10:00 pm (and that's being conservative) because otherwise you are going to become chronically under rested and you're not going to be #grinding for very much longer.

So let's just invert the scenario.

Your lazy ass is in bed at 10:00 pm while I'm up #grinding and #chasingdreams.

I get just as many hours in the day as you do if I stay up until 3:00 am and wake up at 9:00 pm compared to you going to bed at 10:00 pm And waking up at 4: 00 am, and I probably get just as many hours in focused solitude as you do as well.

There's also the very real possibility that this fits my natural proclivities and circadian rhythm better than forcing myself to wake up abhorrently early.

This idea that waking up stupid early in the morning to grind is somehow more hardcore than staying up stupid late also to grind is bizarre, nonsensical, and annoying.

Jamming a square peg into a round hole is hardly the best way to go through life. Some people prefer things one way and other people prefer them another way.

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