Just the ones that didn't get the chance to pass on their DNA, mostly.
I usually train first thing in the morning. I turn on my coffee maker and then take a hot shower, it helps to loosen me up. I grab my coffee and start moving through my mobility work which is my physical therapy routine for a few joint issues. From there I hit my ab roller for a few rounds of around 3 x 10 with 3 x 10 squats of whatever I feel like variation. By now my body is awake and I can start my warm ups and then main sets. This routine has never failed me. When I was running Vodka and Pickles a few years back my body was good to go for a single at 450-500 every minute on the minute for 12 minutes and easily follow up with squats or swings or snatches.
includes my time in the Navy. I would run a basic 3 x 5, usually Strong Lifts or Starting Strength for two months followed by two months of the Texas Method. I finished each session with a quick (5-10 minute) METCON, usually 50-100 burpees. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday were reserved for rucking, LED running or walking for 1.5-2 hours. Sunday was just rest and meal prep.
Definitely agree on the focus, if only because I’m not waiting/looking forward to training all day and preoccupied with it.
A vast majority of my routines are completed before dawn. I've just started a strength program and do lifts in a gym somewhere around midday, but if I have the bars and all the stuff from the gym in my home, I would definitely be doing Deadlifts and Squats early morning.
I remember reading somewhere that the part of the brain for "fight, flight or freeze" is ancient and well-programmed, that's why it costs less energy and can be active even when we are sleeping.
