How Did You! Wake Yourself Up This Morning.

[7daysinaweek]

This is how I did it! Went to bed last night around two, dragged myself out of bed around 10 am and dunked myself straight in our cold plunge pool. The medical science says it has some proven health benefits, it's probably a load of nonsense. But bloody hell it does wake you up.

10 degree water today and dropping week on week, it makes some parts of the male body disappear very quickly, that is for sure! 

 

How do the PW collective get themselves going in the morning?

 

 

[London Best]

Just the opposite here. 
Alarm goes just before 7am (except on shoot mornings, obviously, then it is usually 6am!)
Immediately out of bed, stagger into bathroom, pee, then jump straight into a hot shower.

ps: love the way you wear a woolly hat to keep your head warm.

Edited November 17 by London Best

[oowee]

Dog starts bumping the gate around 0715. 

I am a big fan of wild swimming for the same reasons. 

[amateur]

Alarm goes off at 7am. Pee, head downstairs to let the dog into the garden, make 2 cups of tea, put the porridge in the microwave, grab the newspaper from the door, head back upstairs to wake my darling wife with the cuppa and join her back in bed where we do the crossword together. 

[islandgun]

I get my wife to wake me up

[ditchman]

someone sooner or later has got to tell the truth........

[mel b3]

25 minutes ago, ditchman said:

someone sooner or later has got to tell the truth........

Well it won't be me 😇

[marsh man]

I honestly never need a alarm to wake me up , never did neither when I was working , I am very often getting up two or even three times during the night to go to the loo , then normally well awake before I get up around 6.45 at this time of the year , ( earlier in the Summer months ) , make a cup of tea and watch the start of the 7 am news , then my dog is getting restless so it's then time to take him out , he is now over 10 and I have never missed a morning since I had him as a 9 week old pup , out for just over an hour , get my paper on the way home , feed the dog first and then do my breakfast before my household chores begin .   MM 

[ditchman]

21 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

Well it won't be me 😇

so says "The Tipton fiddler crab"

[stumfelter]

I was going piking so no problem leaping out of bed, only managed one fish all day and unfortunately it was a crayfish! 😂😂

[7daysinaweek]

2 hours ago, London Best said:

Just the opposite here. 
Alarm goes just before 7am (except on shoot mornings, obviously, then it is usually 6am!)
Immediately out of bed, stagger into bathroom, pee, then jump straight into a hot shower.

ps: love the way you wear a woolly hat to keep your head warm.

I cannot do a shower first thing in the morning LB, I am a bit lazy that way and I shower the evening before as it is usually a rush for me in the morning. No one so far complained that I pong. 

That did make me chuckle about the early morning stagger. What is this thing that as I get older, my eyes don't seem to relay the information to my brain as quick as they once did. Maybe there is nothing wrong with my eyes and it's just my brain. 

The hat was Mrs 7days idea, I can say without any doubt that it makes an immeadiate and huge difference to tolerance of cold water, it simply staggering how much heat radiates away from the head.

Just now, stumfelter said:

I was going piking so no problem leaping out of bed, only managed one fish all day and unfortunately it was a crayfish! 😂😂

2 hours ago, oowee said:

Dog starts bumping the gate around 0715. 

I am a big fan of wild swimming for the same reasons. 

Good man oowee, keep it up. Nothing like getting vista from within a wild water, almost an ethereal experience. We use it to keep acclimatised as we wild swim through the 12 months of the year, no wet suits either, we must be mad. 

1 hour ago, amateur said:

Alarm goes off at 7am. Pee, head downstairs to let the dog into the garden, make 2 cups of tea, put the porridge in the microwave, grab the newspaper from the door, head back upstairs to wake my darling wife with the cuppa and join her back in bed where we do the crossword together. 

Now that sound like a grand morning, relaxing and most ageeable.

Does the dog get a cuppa? 

1 hour ago, islandgun said:

I get my wife to wake me up

Why didn't I think of that! 

1 hour ago, ditchman said:

someone sooner or later has got to tell the truth........

59 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

Well it won't be me 😇

54 minutes ago, marsh man said:

I honestly never need a alarm to wake me up , never did neither when I was working , I am very often getting up two or even three times during the night to go to the loo , then normally well awake before I get up around 6.45 at this time of the year , ( earlier in the Summer months ) , make a cup of tea and watch the start of the 7 am news , then my dog is getting restless so it's then time to take him out , he is now over 10 and I have never missed a morning since I had him as a 9 week old pup , out for just over an hour , get my paper on the way home , feed the dog first and then do my breakfast before my household chores begin .   MM 

I am the same MM, when I need to get up, I will wake before the alarm which I set just as a back up, I usually stir about 20 minutes before, quick wash, brush teeth, grab my stuff and off to work. On days off like today, I am a bit lazy. so I slob a bit in bed.

It sounds like you still have a good and meaningful routine which is very important. It also appears the dogs clock is better than our inner human one. 

I doff my cap to you MM.

[mel b3]

4 hours ago, 7daysinaweek said:

This is how I did it! Went to bed last night around two, dragged myself out of bed around 10 am and dunked myself straight in our cold plunge pool. The medical science says it has some proven health benefits, it's probably a load of nonsense. But bloody hell it does wake you up.

10 degree water today and dropping week on week, it makes some parts of the male body disappear very quickly, that is for sure! 

 

How do the PW collective get themselves going in the morning?

 

 

When I'm at the woodland,  I quite often have a shower ( a stream) .  The water in the stream , is coming straight from the top of the mountain, and is icy cold , even in August. 

When my nutsack hits the icy water , I get instant brain freeze. 

Is this normal ?, or , am i a testicularneurologic wonderboy ?. 

Just incase anyone is wondering,  it hurts like a xxxx,  but I feel amazing when I get out , and the pain stops 😁

[ditchman]

1 minute ago, mel b3 said:

When I'm at the woodland,  I quite often have a shower ( a stream) .  The water in the stream , is coming straight from the top of the mountain, and is icy cold , even in August. 

When my nutsack hits the icy water , I get instant brain freeze. 

Is this normal ?, or , am i a testicularneurologic wonderboy ?. 

Just incase anyone is wondering,  it hurts like a xxxx,  but I feel amazing when I get out , and the pain stops 😁

totally crazy.....i got cold swimming the Basingstoke canal with ice on it.. which cut my face in the forces...........my best mate now is my electric blanket

[mel b3]

1 minute ago, ditchman said:

totally crazy.....i got cold swimming the Basingstoke canal with ice on it.. which cut my face in the forces...........my best mate now is my electric blanket

I just got testicular brain freeze reading that 😅 

[amateur]

27 minutes ago, 7daysinaweek said:

......Now that sound like a grand morning, relaxing and most ageeable.

Does the dog get a cuppa? 

As we are both retired, we aren't in a hurry to get up and the dog doesn't like tea, she gets her carrot and chicken stick.

 

 

[Houseplant]

I went fishing 😀

 

[old man]

5 minutes ago, Houseplant said:

I went fishing 😀

 

Blue Cod?

[Houseplant]

Just now, old man said:

Blue Cod?

No, kahawai and a good one at 52cm. 

[BobbyH]

Alarm goes off at 0600. I snooze multiple times untill 0620, get up, teeth, shave,dress and breakfast, drive 5 mins to work then ready to start work at 0700

[7daysinaweek]

1 hour ago, mel b3 said:

When I'm at the woodland,  I quite often have a shower ( a stream) .  The water in the stream , is coming straight from the top of the mountain, and is icy cold , even in August. 

When my nutsack hits the icy water , I get instant brain freeze. 

Is this normal ?, or , am i a testicularneurologic wonderboy ?. 

Just incase anyone is wondering,  it hurts like a xxxx,  but I feel amazing when I get out , and the pain stops 😁

Gives new meaning to 'water torture'

1 hour ago, ditchman said:

totally crazy.....i got cold swimming the Basingstoke canal with ice on it.. which cut my face in the forces...........my best mate now is my electric blanket

52 minutes ago, amateur said:

As we are both retired, we aren't in a hurry to get up and the dog doesn't like tea, she gets her carrot and chicken stick.

 

 

She eats better than me!  👍

40 minutes ago, Houseplant said:

No, kahawai and a good one at 52cm. 

It looks like it eats well?

36 minutes ago, BobbyH said:

Alarm goes off at 0600. I snooze multiple times untill 0620, get up, teeth, shave,dress and breakfast, drive 5 mins to work then ready to start work at 0700

I have 'work drive envy'. 

[Houseplant]

13 minutes ago, 7daysinaweek said:

It looks like it eats well?

Depends on who you ask! They are quite oily and have a distinctive taste. Traditionally, they were considered only good for bait, but the culture is changing. As long as you kill the fish quickly, bleed it and get the guts out ASAP, they are pretty good. That one fish will feed my small family twice. 

[Aled]

Wife's alarm goes at 6.20am, dog wakes up at 6.45am, both of us out of bed and the working day begins...

[39TDS]

This morning it was by the wife telling me I had forgotten to print the invoice she asked me for at 9:30pm last night and that I had only had one job.

[Poor Shot]

Alarm for 5:15, feed the dogs, a quick coffee and then to the gym for 6:00. 

Taking a cold plunge first thing in the morning is reported to have many benefits like boosting circulation, reducing inflammation and can help with recovery. Rogan constantly bigs up the benefits of using a cold plunge and he is in pretty good shape for a guy in his late 50's.  

Seems like it would be a great idea in July following those heatwave nights of sweat reduced sleep but in December and you have break the ice from the surface before getting in? Nah, maybe not.  

[old man]

12 hours ago, Houseplant said:

Depends on who you ask! They are quite oily and have a distinctive taste. Traditionally, they were considered only good for bait, but the culture is changing. As long as you kill the fish quickly, bleed it and get the guts out ASAP, they are pretty good. That one fish will feed my small family twice. 

From memory the blue cod was good.