I Tried Waking up at 4am Every Day, Here's What Happened

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  • @Swamp_Palace
    @Swamp_Palace 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +425

    I know it’s not nearly as early but I’ve been getting up at 6 every morning to practice and work on music, a full three hours before I have to work my day job. It’s literally the best thing I’ve ever done for my creativity and proficiency and I would recommend it to every creative, regardless of your medium. There’s something amazing about the special early hours before the world gets busy, the ability to focus. It’s wonderful. And this is coming from a lifetime late-riser.

    • @SilverDelta
      @SilverDelta 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I'm a musician myself, and I have always wanted to do the same thing. Reading your message is really encouraging, thank you ☺

    • @ytht21
      @ytht21 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      What time do you normally go to sleep, if you don't mind me asking? I want to do this but I rarely reach bed before 12

    • @jacon27
      @jacon27 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ytht21it takes a while to adjust but you just try to go to bed earlier and earlier every night until you’re at 7-8 hours of sleep. Regular exercise helps and limiting caffeine.

    • @jacon27
      @jacon27 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ytht21it takes a while to adjust but you just try to go to bed earlier and earlier every night until you’re at 7-8 hours of sleep. Regular exercise helps and limiting caffeine.

    • @briandipierro8865
      @briandipierro8865 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I noticed when I do this I have way more focus on doing just about anything. I do it on my 3 day weekend every other week, but my brother started getting up early to play computer games after. He's up at 7am and goes to bed at 2am lately and it's frustrating when I want to work on stuff.

  • @wheezywaiter
    @wheezywaiter  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +318

    For those asking, my naps vary in length but are often quite long. 2 hours maybe, which is why I call them "second sleep".

    • @rabyboby
      @rabyboby 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Hey wheezy what are the shopping details for the projector assembly kit plz? Gotta get one for a friend.

    • @wheezywaiter
      @wheezywaiter  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      It's called ROKR Vitascope. That's all I know.@@rabyboby

    • @alanwilliamson6421
      @alanwilliamson6421 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good for you

    • @ubik5453
      @ubik5453 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Holy Shit!!! You're the guy from Crash course government 🤯🤯🤯🤯 mind blown!!!

    • @glowfishin1
      @glowfishin1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Craig I noticed in your straddle -split you are curving your back. This can cause low back pain. Think about keeping your chest up. This will help keep your back straight and you should feel the stretch more in your inner thighs than your low back.
      Can't wait to see the stretching video! Stretch safely ❤

  • @Pipananda1
    @Pipananda1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

    👍 Hey Wheez - how about a recap video of all the things you tried and which you still do - sometimes do - would never do again - etc. 🙂

  • @derrickmickle5491
    @derrickmickle5491 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    Stumbled on the benefits of getting up very early in grad school in my 20s, stopped in my 30s, then rediscovered it in my early 40s. I prefer to think of it as front-loading my day: instead of waking up, rushing to work, working 8-10 hours, and coming home too exhausted to exercise or cultivate my hobbies, I wake up very early (3am), meditate, exercise, walk the dog, and practice guitar everyday before my workday starts at 8am. Walking around my central city in the wee hours of the morning truly feels like I have the city all to myself, undisturbed. The tranquility shifts your perspective and you gain appreciation for spaces you are used to seeing bustling with people during the day.

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everything you just said I also do and for all those same reasons. Well I don't have a dog, and live in my car. Also found 2am was my best format.

    • @therabbithat
      @therabbithat 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ah yes the city is so peaceful in the morning. Just me, the frozen corpse of yet another rough sleeper, and the serial killers.

    • @Vv_JASPER_vV
      @Vv_JASPER_vV 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't prioritize my career/job over my quality of life, so getting up early has always been my way of giving the best of myself to the things I love (exercise, reading, etc.). My job and the stresses that sometimes come with it can have the leftovers :)

    • @mo1976ney
      @mo1976ney 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I would love that kind of rhythm and am looking for a better one than my usual, at the moment. But if I may ask, how do you get your sleep? I have a commute and my work is pretty demanding and needs me alert.

  • @melittlepea
    @melittlepea 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    A tip for Chyna about naps... I always used to feel like this after a nap and I discovered that if I drink a big glass of water after I wake up I feel sooo much better, maybe it would help

  • @JBthePAdashC
    @JBthePAdashC 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Favorite quote: “but I would enjoy robust public transit”. It just really hits home.

    • @bluemeaford
      @bluemeaford 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Man I totally agree.
      If it wasn’t for my family I’d be in the big city fer sure.
      I mean I love the countryside but being able to ditch the car & take transit is something I miss.

  • @stackels97
    @stackels97 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    I was a chronic late nighter. Eventually ended up being a 2/3am bed time person and it added up over time and created some BAD health issues. I started the switch 2 years ago and haven't looked back. The energy I have in those early awake hours are so much better than spare time in the evening. I'm now a 9:30pm bed time and 4:30/5am wake up. 100% recommend.

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ME TOO - I had a million reasons worked out why I was a night person. But the truth was, I was going to bed at 2 am, 3 am. And getting up at 12. In the end, my sister convinced me just to actually get my a$$ out of bed. For four years, I got up at 6 am went to bed like you at 9:30, and it absolutely transformed my life. My life was unquestionably 100% better.
      Then, for a weird thing to do, I started getting up 15 minutes before sunrise every day, and watching the sunrise, as I did tai chi on the balcony, and that again was a big big improvement in my life. I'm a self-employed author, so I can do these things. But my life now runs on the old Japanese time system that everything is so many hours after sunrise.
      The strange thing is to me sunrise is an absolute fixed time in the day now, and everyone else is weird for getting up at a different time every day. It's hard to express how humans are linked to the sunrise to someone who doesn't get up at sunrise every day.

    • @stackels97
      @stackels97 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@piccalillipit9211 thanks for sharing and good on you for making the change!! You're so right about sunrise!
      That was something that helped me switch too :)
      I started going for a walk along the beach to watch the sunrise because it was the only thing wondrous and beautiful enough to motivate me to get out that early.

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@stackels97 I live next to the beach in Bulgaria - I cant conveniently get to it as there is a lake in between a bit like they have in Florida. So Im like 400 yards from the beach but have to go 5 miles to get there LOL.
      But I watch the sunrise over the sea every morning - its the one amazing thing in the world that is GENUINELY FREE...!!!
      Sunrise is the anchor point of my life now, and Im not being glib.

    • @AnssiEriksson
      @AnssiEriksson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I am a night person and whenever I try to change that, I don't notice any benefits, I'm just more tired. Getting by just fine going to sleep late and waking up late. What kind of health issues you experienced, if I may ask?

  • @PrettyTranslatorSarahMoon
    @PrettyTranslatorSarahMoon 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    I can never fall asleep during a nap, no matter how horribly I've slept the night before, but just the act of lying down for 20 minutes, closing my eyes, and listening to music is extremely restful and is a vital part of my daily routine 🙌

    • @cruelaz
      @cruelaz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      my roomate is the same and once he gets to awake after sleep he cant fall back asleep. sometimes I think my can sleep everywhere skill is more a curse 😂 I dont even need to lay down just stay still for a second and there it is

    • @anna9072
      @anna9072 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Likewise. I’m normally a morning person, but I once took a job working graveyard shift (11 pm to 7am), thinking that if I was up all night I’d sleep all day. Right? Nuh-uh. I could NOT sleep during the day, no matter how exhausted I was. I could doze for a few hours, but never really deep sleep. I quit after six months when my body was trying to take micro-naps while I was driving. Totally screwed up my biorhythms for years, and I still have sleeping issues.

  • @eternalenigma1628
    @eternalenigma1628 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    I find the nap jokes very relatable- I have horrible insomnia and am on prescription meds that cause me to get absurdly sleepy, so despite being in my twenties I have to schedule my day around having a midday nap. My remote job recently forced everyone to go back into the office and my health has been suffering because of it. Working on finding a way to get income where I can make my own schedule! Your sleep videos are some of my favorites, I really appreciate them.

  • @halem6580
    @halem6580 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    I get up this early naturally...which means I fall asleep very early naturally. It's genuinely been a nightmare for my social life for pretty much my entire life, to the extent that my first roommate kicked me out because of our extremely different sleep schedules (everyone I've lived with since has said I'm actually a fine roommate and it was definitely her being weird). I really don't understand the corporate American obsession with being an early riser. You don't want this.

    • @vanessamccarthy7807
      @vanessamccarthy7807 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So what time do you typically go to sleep. I'd love to get up a little earlier than i do currently. Typically I'm a night hour 2+am but i get up same time everyday

    • @whiteshadowfare
      @whiteshadowfare 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Have always gotten up early too. Now, newly retired, I am able to sleep until 5:00 daily. Go to sleep by 9:30 most nights. Love my time to myself in the morning. Get a bit upset when others wake up early and try to talk to me.

    • @DyceFreak
      @DyceFreak 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The natural way of humanity is awake during light, sleep during dark. Maybe a nap @~1400 if it's hot out. Electric lights in their entirety are unnatural.

    • @soundscape26
      @soundscape26 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DyceFreak While that is true, light and dark vary a lot throughout the year and I'm sure you don't go to bed at 6PM on winter... always depending on you latitude of course.

    • @andrewvoigtdesign5536
      @andrewvoigtdesign5536 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DyceFreak look into chronotypes. This is not true.

  • @AlphaMachina
    @AlphaMachina 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    I feel like I'm gonna die if I don't get at least 7 hours of sleep, and I still feel pretty poopy if I don't get 8 hours of sleep. Ideally, I'd sleep a full 8 hours every night if I could, but I typically get up after around 6 or 7 hours here lately.

  • @jasons4908
    @jasons4908 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Winter makes this all harder with no sun for 4 more hours.

  • @fugithegreat
    @fugithegreat 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    I'm with Chyna on this one. It's a nope from me! I'm definitely not an early morning person. I wish I was though, because I feel like I could get a lot done before everyone else wakes up.

    • @tomrogue13
      @tomrogue13 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's one of those things where you hate doing it, but love it once you're up. The few times I've done it

    • @soundscape26
      @soundscape26 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well, on the other hand you can get a lot of things done _after_ everyone else goes to sleep. That's the thing, the days have 24 hours for everyone.

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had a million reasons worked out why I was a night person. But the truth was, I was going to bed at 2 am, 3 am. And getting up at 12. In the end, my sister convinced me just to actually get my a$$ out of bed. For four years, I got up at 6 am went to bed like you at 9:30, and it absolutely transformed my life. My life was unquestionably 100% better.
      It takes you about a month or two of total discipline for your body clock to change.

  • @VinceT2940
    @VinceT2940 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    You learned what it's like to be in your 70s! Love your content, thanks.

  • @Beautybytracilei
    @Beautybytracilei 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I feel the same way about late night hours as others do about early morning hours. I love the feeling of being the only one awake in the house, the quiet, it’s just a wonderfully private time..

  • @sammitchell2338
    @sammitchell2338 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    Alright, you got an out-loud chuckle from me for “slapping his lashes.”

    • @TheFuriousjack
      @TheFuriousjack 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He got me with "It"

    • @seooooyo
      @seooooyo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He had me at "hello"

  • @joshbatzloff6447
    @joshbatzloff6447 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was a night owl until 3 years ago. Now I’m in bed by 10 up at 5 don’t use an alarm anymore. Early morning is like a different world, so quiet and peaceful.

  • @macsarcule
    @macsarcule 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    ProTip in advance for the cooking-at-home-no-eating-out from someone who does this all the damn time: most of the time, ignore the pressure from the cooking community/foodies to make this amazing instagramy food. That’s for funzies. Real cooking-all-the-time only needs to be tasty and healthy as you like it, and as little effort as you want. It’s your food, make what’s good enough for you. Eschew the pressure to cook fancy. Unless you already enjoy doing that and it’s already fun for you. 🙂

    • @kellywelz5398
      @kellywelz5398 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Most meals that I make are one-bowl meals, like hearty soups, or casseroles, or cold salads. I make big batches of these, and portion them into Tupperware containers and microwave one per meal (or eat it cold, if that's the idea ). It is rarely pretty, but it means I don't have to cook every darn day! Such convenience!

    • @justyourlocalrat_
      @justyourlocalrat_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      +

  • @AnthonyStJames-yn8nr
    @AnthonyStJames-yn8nr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    even before jocko willink, david goggins and all other famous ex-military personalities advocated waking up early, I've been waking up at 4AM since college and I've discovered what WheezyWaiter did, "I'm already doin' it!" moments. Nowadays, it became the standard for me, I never wake up later than that unless I stayed up late to offset sleep. It's not for everybody, but for those that do, you can probably agree that waking up that early feels really sweet.

  • @thatjillgirl
    @thatjillgirl 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    This confirms for me that I'm a night owl. I don't "feel the energy" until about 11:00 am. If I have to be up earlier for something (such as work), I'll be up, but, yeah, I never feel like my best, most productive self until the afternoon. Just wired totally differently.

    • @RidleyJones
      @RidleyJones 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      yeah same. Even when I get up late and am well rested, the first two hours I'm awake I'm more or less just fumbling my way back to sapience. If I try to exercise before I've been up for several hours, I get sick and miserable. My sleep schedule can gradually change if it needs to, but these things always seem to be true. I will NEVER voluntarily get up before 8am and I will NEVER feel truly awake until at least two hours after that.

    • @GizmoAndKiwi
      @GizmoAndKiwi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Same for me. Having more time for myself sounds great, but getting up so early would be torture. It is already torture that work starts at 7 for me, the only solace is that I'm not giving my best hours to my job, because my brain doesn't work yet 😂 Only autopilot

    • @Blake4625kHz
      @Blake4625kHz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Take it from an oldy, even before the days of shift work, always was a night person. I hafta be up before 5. Still go to bed around midnight. On my days off sleep in till 7 or 8. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that people who walk through this life entirely unaffected or kid themselves with many medications are the ones that sleep. I ain’t about that.

  • @wdestrempsmecke
    @wdestrempsmecke 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I get up at 5:30am everyday to get a great walk in with the dog. Hearing the early birds and breathing in incredibly fresh air is absolutely amazing way to slowly start the day.

  • @neuropsyphi
    @neuropsyphi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Another plus to waking up early is having an excuse to go to bed super early

  • @dicebar_
    @dicebar_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Something I love about Craig is that, when you space out during the line where he says the sponsor segment is starting - and because of my ADHD I have a permit to space out verified by doctors who substantiate their claims with certificates in frames (and also to make references no one will pick up on, but I digress) - and the ad read just becomes part of a funny part of the script. Good job Craig!

  • @cinthiaham1517
    @cinthiaham1517 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I used to work at Starbucks at 4 am for a year, I would take a nap at 10 am after work and I had the rest of my day to do soooo much!

  • @stanislawrybinski
    @stanislawrybinski 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    the amount of dad jokes and puns you put into your videos is astounding. you're such a dad. i mean, you are. but also... you get what i mean.

  • @rebekahyoder9335
    @rebekahyoder9335 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Now that I am firmly middle aged, I am lucky if i get about 3 hours of sleep in a row.
    It's not great.
    Also, speaking of separate mattresses, one of the big secrets of success in my marriage has been my husband and I having our own sets of blankets. Sharing blankets was a nightmare and I don't want to ever go back to that.

  • @JessiferHill
    @JessiferHill 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I would literally die if I got up at 4am and if I nap it ruins my sleep schedule. I have my me time in the evenings as I often have energy to burn off before going to bed. It’s different for everyone :)

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So true, I do 2am and it is just great for me. While my friends think it's stupid. Wait I've moved passed them 😁

  • @heahterranier6926
    @heahterranier6926 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I have gotten up at 4:00 am for going on a decade now. It allows me to work a couple hours, cook an hour, take care of my ducks and aquaponic fish, garden an hour, and clean, all before 9 am. In summer, here in Florida, that's about the time you wanna get out of the heat and humidity anyways!

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯

  • @astr0k1d
    @astr0k1d 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Title says 4am, thumbnail says 4pm lol

    • @wheezywaiter
      @wheezywaiter  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Ooops. Fixed.

    • @savegraysoncats
      @savegraysoncats 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Did you ever try polyphasic sleep. I used it to survive 3 rd shift at work while running a pet rescue during the day

    • @savegraysoncats
      @savegraysoncats 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I slept about 3 hours before work. Napped on my lunch break. Napped right after I clocked out and took a 45 min nap if I felt tired midday. With ADHD I usually don't dream. With polyphasic sleep I would fall into REM sleep and dream immediately during these 45 minute naps

    • @jocelynbaker6718
      @jocelynbaker6718 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I asked a sleep scientist about this and he said the evidence suggests it’s less restorative than sleeping once at night (for the same amount of time slept)

  • @anitas5817
    @anitas5817 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I need way more sleep or I don’t feel good. I need 7 1/2 - 8 hrs. I’m always amazed by people who feel ok on so much less.

  • @piccalillipit9211
    @piccalillipit9211 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    *I GET UP AT SUNRISE EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR* my life now runs on the old Japanese time system that everything is so many hours after sunrise.
    The strange thing is to me sunrise is an absolute fixed time in the day now, and everyone else is weird for getting up at a different time every day. It's hard to express how humans are linked to the sunrise to someone who doesn't get up at sunrise every day. YOU GET UP AT A DIFFERENT TIME EVERY DAY...!!! Just cos mechanical time say 7am, biological time changes every day...!!!

  • @hawleygriffin1800
    @hawleygriffin1800 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've been doing 4AM Mon-Fri since August of 1979. Catch a train downtown to the exchange that leaves at 4:57 AM. It's a 40 mile ride. Get home a little after 5PM. Fall asleep on the train on the way home virtually everyday. But it's great because then I'm rested and can workout when I get home.

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯

  • @Jojo12336
    @Jojo12336 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I loved all the old style jokes in this video. Starts my day off with good vibes ❤

  • @perrygrosshans8537
    @perrygrosshans8537 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Wait...there's a 4 a.m.??

  • @rebeccaarcher5139
    @rebeccaarcher5139 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've been doing 4 am for 4 years. No more insomnia. How is that? I also set an alarm for 8 pm to remind me to go to bed. I love my new schedule. 1st wash face and put on PJs. I never did that before. Then go to bed with eye mask. Enjoy.

  • @j0HN0WNS
    @j0HN0WNS 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "I'm not some stupid clone" is a reference only the OGs will get.

  • @Jaqaroo
    @Jaqaroo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That was a great video,Craig! You had me hooked from the start to the end. It just flowed so nicely.

  • @tadpoleontheweb
    @tadpoleontheweb 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Getting up early is one of those habits that preciptates a bunch of other good habits-like exercise, eating properly, getting things done, going to bed on time-because it sets the tone for the rest of the day. Sleeping in, though not necessarily a bad thing when done in moderation, tends to set the opposite tone. But you do you.

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly 💯

    • @JamieLBW
      @JamieLBW 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It depends on if you're a morning person. The important thing is understanding when you have the most energy in the day and then using those hours to your advantage. There's nothing useful about telling people one habit done a specific way is the end all be all of good habits. If you hate mornings and are exhausted during the morning, getting up way earlier might just make things worse

  • @Ajfmaizy
    @Ajfmaizy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Good video. The last few days I've been trying to shift my body clock to waking up a bit earlier so this was a nice inspiration.
    Something I noticed on the stretching -- I hope this is welcome -- is your upper body form on the lunge. Your spine stayed hunched, especially the thoracic (top bit near shoulders). I think for the lunge it is better to have the spine in slight extension, as this also gets a better thrust through the hips. If you can't reach the ground use blocks. It alos suggests you might be losing mobility in the spine or getting stuck in a hunched position which is something to avoid! Happy to do a video call sometime if you want a random internet stranger to give tips.

  • @missmjl2468
    @missmjl2468 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have always always always been an early riser. It is the most peaceful serene part of the day. Love it. My daughter is the exact opposite. Different times work better for different people. Find you bliss time ❤

  • @osmoduh
    @osmoduh 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Hey Craig I like your videos, glad to see you are at it again :)

  • @TheOneAndOnlyTed
    @TheOneAndOnlyTed 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I don't know about this 4am stuff, but I do really want to get back to waking up a half hour earlier than I need to so I can get a walk in. Always feels great, but it's just so hard to get started again once you stop.

  • @hamburgerdan101
    @hamburgerdan101 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My summer job required me to wake up at 6:15am i went to sleep around 10-10:30pm. I would gym after work most days. this schedule made my days short. I wasn’t doing anything productive and often couldn’t do things with people because of my early bedtime. I was depressed at the time I would say that it does sort of curb depression just by keeping your days short and helping time pass although it does impede on your social life which is counter intuitive to helping depression.

  • @MagicTurtle643
    @MagicTurtle643 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I also feel worse after naps, plus it's INCREDIBLY hard for me to fall asleep during the day, but when I do I wake up feeling worse -- and with an uncommonly terrible taste in my mouth. I'd rather just push through till bed time. I've been pushing back my wakeup time a little bit every year and the earlier it gets, the more I like it haha. Most of this week I woke up at 5:30 even though I could technically sleep until like 7:15, even 7:30 if I wanted to rush. I think the love of early rising comes naturally with aging for some reason.

  • @ryanjohnson7245
    @ryanjohnson7245 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    In a fit of pique after oversleeping, I angrily decided to get up at 4am everyday purely out of spite. That was 6 years ago. Truly changed my life.
    The morning time is the best time.

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯

  • @chrisfowler5079
    @chrisfowler5079 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I’ve been getting up at 3:15 am for years, and I love it. I can get loads done before work if it’s needed. I have time for a good breakfast. I can just take my time. No last second rushing around before flying out of the door. Plus your fully awake, and ready for the day. It takes a while to adapt, but I’d recommend it to anyone. 🙂👍

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯. I tired 4am but it felt off to me. Then I did 2am and just like that my life changed.

  • @wellnessreviewed
    @wellnessreviewed 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Sometimes I'm in a phase where I wanna improve, sometimes I wanna let loose. It's important to return to it." Yes!!!! So much yes. I felt that.

  • @CavingMonkey
    @CavingMonkey 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There was an element of old Wheezy. Love it! We need the clones back! (I miss quiet clone) - Maybe even the whale tank

  • @NinjaPirateJedi
    @NinjaPirateJedi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I laughed way harder at the Doctor Sleep joke than I expected!

  • @myriamcroteau7006
    @myriamcroteau7006 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I used to like getting up a bit earlier to be able to do some yoga to start my day, but now that I'm pregnant, I can't do it anymore because when I get up too early, I just get some really bad nausea, even in my second trimester... 😢 Hope I'll be able to get back to normal after my baby is born!

  • @Madhem101
    @Madhem101 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really loving your vids my man. And even more recently….awesome

  • @BeefinOut
    @BeefinOut 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    "I'm not some stupid clone" as a long-time wheezywaiter viewer, I'm not convinced

    • @iambear.6526
      @iambear.6526 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We all know real Craig fell into an alligator pit a long time ago

    • @EBrenry
      @EBrenry 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes. Donor Craig was startled by an explosion, and fell into an alligator pit. It was a Wednesday.

  • @anneceferron4595
    @anneceferron4595 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I used to offer this kind of wooden puzzle to my big brother at Christmas (one was a replica of a viole, à kind of cello) he passed away so that made me emotional… BUT still have to discover if waking up at 4 when you are not Marc Walberg is a good idea !!!

  • @firewalk312
    @firewalk312 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Been waiting for sooooo long, for this one. ❤

  • @kellylee_p9076
    @kellylee_p9076 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loved this video so much, you’re sense of humour is the best Craig! 😂 luv from Australia 🇦🇺 Xx

  • @xanderLOLOMG
    @xanderLOLOMG 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wheezywaiter, the whirlwind wordsmith, weaves wacky, wondrous webisodes while wearing wavy waistcoats with whimsical wit, whimspering with wild wisdom, winking at wandering watchers with walloping wordplay!

  • @Khiash
    @Khiash 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I'm only a minute in and I'm loving the content, banger video as always Craig

  • @thatguywiththe
    @thatguywiththe 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I started doing the 4 am wake up in the beginning of the year and I can't live without it now. I often go to bed at 8-9 pm. Wake up at 4 and I get every chore done (quietly) by 5:30 so that I can do what I want after before everyone else's wakes up.

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's exactly why 💯, I start at 2am, found it hard to get up at 4am. 🤔

  • @angerock49
    @angerock49 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I hadn't listened to piano in a while so it was lovely to hear Schubert for a bit there!

  • @olympianagel9379
    @olympianagel9379 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i was getting up at 5am for a while to gym and loved it! i want to get back into it but my room became a little disruptive so once i fix that i’ll go back to it. also though! the fact you did it every day might have been the thing i was missing? i only did it every other day which i thought would make it easier because i didn’t have to get up early all the time but maybe that was my downfall. loved the video! hilarious as always.

  • @celticlass8573
    @celticlass8573 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I get up 2.5-3 hours before I start work each day, because I enjoy and also need that time. Pretty sure my co-workers think I'm crazy, especially the ones that roll out of bed and start work 10 minutes later, but that sounds horrible to me. I'd still be half asleep and trying to be productive! I have a couple cups of whatever caffeine, maybe go for a walk, watch a couple TH-cam videos (which is literally what I'm doing now, I have 40 mins until work starts), maybe pick up a few things that need tidying, it's all very chill. My pre-work time is when I wake up gently, and I really miss it the odd time when I can't do it.

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      💯 . Up at 2am, gym 2:30 till 3:30. Work on my own hobbies etc until 6:30 am drive to work, get there at 6:45 ( I live in my car so I'm always 15min from anywhere). I start work at 8:am, half the company staff can't even get in on time and barely able to function. They think I'm nuts. 🙃🙏

    • @celticlass8573
      @celticlass8573 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@my-carlife I honestly feel like it sets me up for the tone of the day as well. I'm not full of anxiety because I've been scared awake by some obnoxious alarm (I use a sunrise-simulating light, which also turns on bird sounds when the alarm time comes) and then I don't have to run around getting ready to head out. I used to get up and then 30 mins later was out the door (stopping at a coffee shop every morning for breakfast), then gogogo then lunch workout, then gogogo then home exhausted. Now I get up earlier, and I'm not exhausted at the end of the workday. Go figure.

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @celticlass8573 That is it 💯 I use the sunrise clock. It lights up my whole car inside. It's like being on the sun. Once I started to video my failures and upload it, I had to face it. That removed my anxiety and self-doubt. Glad to have found your channel. 🙏

  • @melissabaker1880
    @melissabaker1880 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’ve only been following you for a while, Craig, but I love your videos and humor so much 💯
    I wish I could be your neighbor and do some of these trails with you and have dorky slow-mo high-fives at the end.

  • @Carnicrazy
    @Carnicrazy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Before retirement, I got up at 4 with my husband because he drove the UW shuttle 20 miles into Seattle with his fellows, who started early. That was 12 years ago & I still get up that early. In fact I usually arise between 3:15 to 3:30 a.m. and get to bed about 7:30 at night. I love this schedule, frankly. Sometimes I take a short nap during the day, but often not. The only thing that makes it challenging to arise so early is having to wait for hours before anything is open or my friends are up. This is especially noticeable when we go camping. 😅 We're always up before dawn. Nobody understands. 😢

  • @Freedom-em3zb
    @Freedom-em3zb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I get up at 2:30 am for my job, which I actually love. I have more energy in the morning. Now that being said I go to bed at 6 pm so I miss a lot of evening things but this is my season of life.

  • @kazzybits
    @kazzybits 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hi! I've been getting up early too and hitting the pavement - you have OSB, I have ORB - Operation Rebuild Barbarella. I'm always inspired by your experiments and challenges. Consistent persistence - with naps.

  • @MaartenBlij
    @MaartenBlij 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’ve noticed that on the days I stay in bed to wait before the bathroom is cleared I feel worse. Not bad, but not as good as other days. It’s the days I have to get up that are overall more better. It’s not 4 am and I think it’s not realistic to try in my life, but earlier is doable.

  • @AndyGlover
    @AndyGlover 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've just started on a 5:30a wake up this week, it's been really nice to get up early and have the chance to work on stuff... Going to bed on time is the true challenge!!

  • @KOutOfMyYard
    @KOutOfMyYard 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don’t have time for the second sleep but do very much want to get folks on the early train! It is great. Period. Been doing it for a year. Wicked

  • @joejoeholmes
    @joejoeholmes 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Craig Benzine, I know this is off-topic, but I wanted to thank you for plugging your under-rated podcast with Mr. Greg Benson. It's one of the best podcasts I've ever consumed. It's way better than any lettuce I've consumed. I hope that one day you and Mr. Greg Benson receive all the notoriety that you deserve, especially for the very pertinent lettuce news that you bring to the discussion on occasion. I appreciate the frickin heck out of you two. You two have given me many hours of mirth and merriment through your podcast. Especially the one where you looked at your asshole for the first time. Love you guys!

  • @DarkbutNotsinister
    @DarkbutNotsinister 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I do the second sleep & didn’t realize it.
    It doesn’t matter what time I wake up, but there is a second sleep around 10 am. I’m much more pleasant for the rest of the day.

  • @maysayay
    @maysayay 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I really appreciate Craig putting an imagine of all his references. Many times I'm watching other people's videos I don't get half of the jokes 😅

  • @musickf
    @musickf 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm starting school and have to catch the bus between 6:10 and 6:45 in the morning, depending on the day. I'm probably gonna try and wake up at 5, just to be coherent and ready to face the cold. Your videos on the wake up challenge are very inspirational for the hell I'm about to get used to. Thanks!

  • @lucidragon5260
    @lucidragon5260 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for this video! It's made me realize something about myself. I wake up early for work, but I haven't had the energy to do other things after work. I might try waking up even earlier so I can get some writing in befire work, rather than waiting for after

  • @GerkinsGames
    @GerkinsGames 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Doctor Sleep, more like” COUNTING SHEEP
    It was right there, either you’re trolling or the sleep deprivation really got to you! 😂

  • @paulyoung1629
    @paulyoung1629 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love you guys. Another awesome video.

  • @SandraEKitchen
    @SandraEKitchen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I think waking up at 4am instead of a normal time sounds like torture. As an adult I’m realizing that I’m a 12am to 7am sleeper and then maybe a nap after work.

  • @JSRJS
    @JSRJS 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It defeats the purpose of getting up at 4:00 AM if you don't go to bed until midnight....you should probably go to bed at 9:00 PM if you get up at 4:00 AM

  • @JonAdamsTech
    @JonAdamsTech 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My body and brain are stupid too. You're not alone. #brotherhood

  • @Mbhugstrees
    @Mbhugstrees 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The yoda, energy flowing through me comment made me laugh. I love your videos.

  • @charlie_p0011
    @charlie_p0011 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am a morning person. I have been getting up early since I was a kid. I started so I could watch cartoons on Sundays before my dad got up to watch fishing shows. Now I get up at 4 because I want to sit and drink my coffee before I get ready for work. I ride my bike to work and love how quiet it is and know that most people are sleeping. It’s like it’s meeeeee time because I’m the only one using it. (Don’t ruin it for me).

  • @silvercookies
    @silvercookies 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You just reminded me that I was going to learn to do the splits with the goal of achieving it by New Year's and um I've only practised stretching twice so I don't think that goal date is happening but maybe I can achieve before next Summer. I would like to get up early I did early morning walks a couple of times in the summer saw some beautiful and peaceful sunrises and then um also stopped so...maybe i'll get back into it who knows.

  • @Chad_D
    @Chad_D 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Liking the newest WeezyWaiter video .. already doing it !!!

  • @NitaKerns
    @NitaKerns 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have to be at work for 5am, so this is every day for me hahaha

  • @nahkalahdeyoung6889
    @nahkalahdeyoung6889 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I wake up at 330 4am everyday for a year an a half. I go to park/beach and meditate bt 5 530 Theres others there that do a gym class that early as well. So its cool to see the few early birds that get up around the same time. Its nice to warch sunrise everyday. But i must say it makes me feel so much better than sleeping inn.

  • @newfiegal7842
    @newfiegal7842 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Do you think you’d be able to get up at 4am if you had a job outside of your house and couldn’t have the afternoon nap? I can’t make it through the day if I wake up that early

  • @baileycaful
    @baileycaful 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this channel!

  • @LoganLovell
    @LoganLovell 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I started waking up at 5:45 so I could workout and shower before work, but I started working out after work and still get up at 5:45 because it just feels so much better. Even in highschool I purposely got up and got to school by 6:30 even though class started at 8, because I wanted to have time to hangout before school (also we had to be up that early for drumline in the fall anyways so I figured why not be consistent).

  • @darknewt
    @darknewt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WheezyWaiter showing up in my recomended after not seeing him since the Shaytard / KassemG era. Still a creative genius

  • @glowfishin1
    @glowfishin1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really enjoyed this video!

  • @garthgoldwater5256
    @garthgoldwater5256 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    if you’re getting terrible sleep in general you could try the myonozzle straw, mouth taping, the various jaw brace things, etc for a video

    • @ashleyh8352
      @ashleyh8352 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes!! Mouth taping lol

  • @anna9072
    @anna9072 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wake up at 4 am on a regular basis. It was 6 am for years, but where I currently live it’s daylight by 4 in the summer, so I just kept that schedule year round. I’m normally a morning person, and I like having a few hours to myself before anyone else is up and about.

    • @my-carlife
      @my-carlife 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      💯

  • @halevpeng5125
    @halevpeng5125 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hello Whezzy.
    You should take a epic nap right after you get up in the morning...
    Greets to you and your family

  • @dacrazyone88
    @dacrazyone88 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love being a morning person but I have little kids still sleep is so precious for me now.

  • @LannasMissingLink
    @LannasMissingLink 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ugh kafka on the snore made me remember the bedroom scenes in that book... id like to forget I ever read that book, thank you very much

  • @NathanMilkie1
    @NathanMilkie1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:54, 6:01 | This guy's energy is off the charts. It makes me think that he has just downed an entire pot of coffee. 🤣🤣🤣
    Shout out to all the epic naps out there!

  • @UmmHeyyKid
    @UmmHeyyKid 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wake up at 4 am for work Monday through Friday and I go to bed around 10 pm. Weekends I wake up between 6 and 8 am and go to bed around 11 at the very latest.
    No naps.

  • @robinedwards8796
    @robinedwards8796 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The way you promote that adaptogen drink is why it's smart to advertise through TH-cam. Holy shit! I laughed so hard! It might be a tinsey winsey because I'm smoking cannabis right now 😆
    Your content always makes me laugh. Thank you ☺

  • @Bowiepainter
    @Bowiepainter 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I get up at 4:30 and go for a walk before the world is awake and it’s the best!!

  • @Sevieboy22
    @Sevieboy22 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Been a sub since I was a kid, miss you Wheezy glad to see you are still out here making bangers. Also, did explosion wednesday become a thing or are we still on the fence? Also has the Eagle stopped harassing you?

  • @6p00l
    @6p00l 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    that tree in the background at 2:38 is so beautiful