What’s tougher, waking up early 3 days a week or 5?

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my body’s natural rhythm is to be a lazy fatass and I’m fighting that aspect, so may as well knock this one out as well

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If you are trying to create a new lifestyle, don't swim up-river. In my experience, if you want to create a behavior, it starts with mindset. How bad do you want it?

No matter how bad, though, over time you need to lift your big barriers to sustain the bahavior. If you hate waking early, is there no way possible to work out in the evening or at lunch?

Create small wins and celebrate them.

And when that voice inside you, inevitably, tries to talk you out of it. Listen. But get right back to it. Make a list of all of the value from exercise (cardiovascular, mood, sleep, bone density, etc.) and remind yourself that you are making an investment in yourself.

Mindset!

Good luck

I prefer evening workouts but in days that’s not possible I like a lunch workout. I feel energetic in the afternoon instead of lethargic

I don’t personally like waking up and lifting right away(but I’ll do it in a pinch), but I actually don’t mind waking up and doing fasted cardio first thing.

Waking up early is the cheat code. Even if not lifting that day.

I’d say it’s much easier if you’re doing it everyday.

My wife and I get up at 4:45am daily to hit the gym. We just had the same conversation the other day when one of the younger instructors at our gym slept through his alarm and didn't show up to class. This happens somewhat regularly with the instructors/openers who only have the early stuff on their schedule one or two days a week. The people who do it daily are regular and pretty much never no-show. In short, I think it's harder if you do it less frequently.

That being said: I do enjoy occasionally having a "cheat" day where we sleep in an extra 30 minutes or so, if we can fit it into our schedule.

I absolutely loathe waking up early. As it is, I'm difficult to have a conversation with any time before about 8:30am. So waking up early to lift is just not in the cards for me. My solution to that is if I wake up early, I go to work early, then I take a long lunch to go to the gym. So if I get to work 30 minutes early, I can take a 90 minute lunch break, and still get my full days worth of hours. I love working out on my lunch break. I don't have to wake up at an unreasonable hour, or get home late, and still get my workout in.

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Been waking up at 4am on weekdays to workout for years, usually sleep until 6 or so on the weekends.

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This. I used to hate getting up that early except to go hunting for the most part but that was before #1 kid 24 years ago. I used to train in the evenings prior but that just wasn't cutting it with my bride so the only time slot to train was at 0400 so that's what I started doing and it has stuck. The only issue is with getting older, I have to get up to go pizz and that is usually around midnight and sometimes at 0300 which really sucks.