Originally Posted by Lewbronski

Agree with the AM’s too early thing. It’s one thing to be a morning person. Our am’s require something pretty far beyond being a “morning person.”

Mark Walhlberg, for example, is known for his “extreme” routine of getting up a 2:30 am to pray, then work out.

David Goggins, who is billed by some as “The World’s Toughest Man” put out a video of himself out running in the dark at 3:30 am asking where all the billionaires were on the empty streets.

Most am’s seem to report between 4 and 5 am. I’ve always used a two hour before rule on am’s for when I need to get up. That means am’s require me to get up between 2 and 3 am. That’s for an originator. If I overnight in a city in a time zone ahead of me, that am wake-up is then even earlier in terms of body clock time.

Even if you reduce the time down to an hour before report to wake up, do all your morning prep and get to the airport, you’re still getting up between 3 and 4 am. Unless you live right next to the airport, that’s pretty hard to do.

Then, when not on a trip, do you keep getting up between 2 and 4 am to maintain your schedule and circadian rhythms? Or do you back to being a more normal morning person, getting up at 5 or 6 am and then having to reset again in three or four days when you go back on a trip?