Do This Every Morning, Wake Up Bigger (Morning Routine)

Do This Every Morning, Wake Up Bigger (Morning Routine)



Looking for muscle building tips? What if a few simple tweaks to your morning routine could instantly boost your muscle growth? You'll hear about the Andrew Huberman morning routine and the Brian Johnson morning routine, but what actually works? Well after making six science-backed changes to my morning routine for muscle growth (including eating the best breakfast for muscle growth), my gains drastically improved—along with my energy and productivity. And the same can happen for you once you implement these morning muscle building habits. We'll talk about fasted workouts, cold showers, post-workout meals and more!

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Timestamps:
0:00 – 0:25 : The 6 Parts Of The Morning Routine
0:26 – 3:30 : 1 – Wake Up Time
3:31 – 3:46 : Light Lamp Recommendation
3:46 – 5:13 : 2 – Proper Morning Weigh-In
5:14 – 6:59 : 3 – Morning Caffeine
7:00 – 8:07 : How to Tell If Your Sleep Is Good
8:08 – 10:06 : 4 – Morning Workout
10:07 – 13:26 : 5 – High Protein Breakfast
13:27 – 14:25 : 6 – Cold Showers?
14:26 : How to Implement The Morning Routine

Without training harder or eating more protein, one of the best muscle building tips I can give is just improving your sleep. And the key to this is waking up at sunrise and getting morning sunlight to stimulate melatonin production. But if your sun doesn’t rise til later, you can still replicate this effect by investing in a light that provides at least 10,000 lux of brightness and filters out as much UV light as possible.

Next, a daily weigh-in — right after waking up and after using the bathroom— during your morning routine is one of the best ways to track your muscle building progress. If you’re trying to build muscle, you should see your morning weight slowly creep up by about half a pound per week. Whereas if your goal is fat loss while building muscle, then your weight should stay relatively stable or drop slightly every week.

Caffeine is one of the best morning muscle building habits you can use to boost focus, mood, and even your workouts. But timing is key. I prefer to have my caffeine as early as possible. For most people, caffeine has a half-life of about six hours. So for me, shortly after waking at 6 a.m. I’ll have an Earl Grey tea (about 50 milligrams of caffeine). By 9 am, I’ll have a scoop of our Built With Science pre-workout which contains 180mg of caffeine but also an added ingredient called L-Theanine which helps smooth out the energy boost and prevents the hard crash you usually get from taking that amount of caffeine on its own. After that, I avoid caffeine.

Next, training during your morning routine for muscle growth leads to a circadian “phase advance”. If you’re used to training later in the day, you might notice that your lifts feel heavier and your performance takes a hit when you first switch to morning workouts. That’s completely normal. But the good news is, this is just temporary.

Next, a high-protein breakfast is the best breakfast for muscle growth. But how much is actually necessary? My recommendation is to aim for at least 20-30 grams of high-quality protein in your morning meal, then spread the rest of your daily intake across a few meals throughout the day. Here’s what I personally do. If I’m training first thing in the morning, I’ll have a banana with 1 scoop of my Built With Science whey protein powder. After my workout is when I have my more satiating, slow digesting meal. This is usually either oatmeal topped with half a scoop of Built With Science protein powder and greek yogurt, or a sourdough bread sandwich with 4 whole eggs.

Lastly, cold exposure. Whether it’s a cold shower or ice bath, is believed to be a game-changer for muscle recovery, metabolism, and looking really, really cool on Instagram. The bad news is that while cold exposure immediately after a workout actually does seem to help you recover quicker, it does so by blunting the full recovery process, leading to less muscle growth and strength. It also hasn’t been shown to do anything notable for fat loss. So why do so many people love it? One reason is it definitely flips your nervous system into high gear, and you feel wide awake.

For these reasons, I must admit I am a regular partaker in cold showers to naturally wake me up. But by cold showers I mean I take a really hot shower to warm up and then crank it cold for a few seconds and scream like a baby.

So here's my entire morning routine for muscle growth laid out for you.

In bed by 9:30pm, asleep by 10:00pm
Wake up at 6:00am with morning daylight
Weigh myself while brushing my teeth
Earl grey tea + 1-2 hours of deep work
Protein shake + banana + pre-workout caffeine
Workout (weights or cardio)
Post-workout high protein breakfast

what if a few simple tweaks to your morning routine could instantly boost your muscle growth my mornings used to be a mess I'd wake up late scroll my phone then rush out the door with whatever breakfast I could grab my energy sucked my workouts felt weak and my muscles just didn't seem to recover but after making six size back changes to my morning my gains drastically improved along with my energy and productivity and the same can happen for you starting with your wakeup time so when you work out your muscle sustains small amounts of damage but at night is when your body flips a switch entering its most anabolic state to repair and grow new muscle that's why even a single night of poor sleep has been shown to negatively affect muscle recovery and why multiple long-term Studies have found that consistently poor sleep dramatically slows down muscle growth and fat loss so even without training harder or eating more protein just improving your sleep can get you better results and the key to this has to do with your circadian rhythm your body runs on a 24-hour schedule called the Circadian rhythm when you stay in sink with daylight going to bed earlier and waking up closer to Sunrise you help your brain regulate hormones like melatonin for sleep and cortisol for waking up now melatonin is your body's natural sleep hormone when the sun sets and your environment gets dark melatonin production accelerates signaling your body to wind down and prepare itself for deep restorative sleep the more consistently you prod produce melatonin at the same time each night the more effectively you'll cycle into the deep sleep stages that give your muscles the highest rates of recovery so how do we boost melatonin maybe we just pop in a supplement actually the best way to ramp up melatonin is by getting morning sunlight you probably heard the advice about dimming the lights in your home and reducing scream time at night which is important but here's something really cool your nightly melatonin production actually begins in the morning it's why High performers like Ronaldo and LeBron James wake up religiously at Sunrise even billionaire Richard Branson sleeps with his blinds open to let natural light wake him up when you expose your eyes to Daylight early in the morning it sends a powerful signal to your brain's internal clock to ramp up your melatonin around bedtime and to continue increasing it throughout the night exactly what you need for deep restorative sleep once you get this right it feels like a cheat cat even self-proclaimed night owls have been sh to benefit from aligning their sleep schedules with their body's natural Rhythm our body simply wasn't built for late nights it was built for daylight but waking up this early isn't easy trust me I failed horribly at first hustle culture told me to grind harder and sleep less well I say just sleep a little faster so initially I thought I could just wake up at 6:00 a.m. without changing my bedtime bad idea research consistently shows that for most people 7 plus hours of quality sleep is crucial some athletes swear by 8 nine or even 10 hours but after some trial and error I found that my sweet spot is 8 hours and this meant if I wanted to wake up with the son at 6:00 a.m. I needed to cut out my Netflix binges and wind down in bed by 9:30 p.m. latest I also set my phone across a room so when my alarm goes off I have to physically get up to turn it off instead of snoozing it while I'm in bed then I head outside or by the window to soak up some Morning Light even if it's cloudy out the Rays will still Peak through to your eyes but if your sun doesn't rise till later you can still replicate this effect by investing in a light that provides at least 10,000 luck of brightness and filters out as much UV light as possible and I'll leave a link to one I recommend in the description box down below but once that's done the next thing I do is weigh myself if you know how to actually use it a daily morning weighin is one of the best ways to track your muscle building progress but timing and consistency are key when you wait yourself at the same time every morning right after waking up and after using the bathroom you eliminate most of the random fluctuations of body weight for example my weight easily fluctuates by 5 to 7 lbs throughout the day depending on what I've eaten how much water I've had or even just how much sodium was in my last meal but in the morning that is my true Baseline and tracking this gives you immediate feedback if you're trying to build muscle you should see your morning weight slowly creep up by about half a pound per week if it's not you're probably not eating enough whereas if your goal is to lose fat while building muscle then your weight should stay relatively stable or just drop very slightly every week and if it's not you're probably eating too much but the best part about a weigh yourself in the morning is that it's easy to stay consistent there's this concept called habit stacking pairing a new habit with something you already do automatically so in the morning I wake up I use the bathroom and then I brush my teeth all I had to do was pair brushing my teeth with weighing in and logging into my built with science Plus app and boom it's now become automatic takes 5 seconds but that small habit compounds over time and gives me the momentum to carry out the next part of my morning routine which in my case is caffeine so caffeine is one of the best tools you can use to boost Focus mood and even your workouts which I'll talk about later but timing it right is key some experts suggest the leaning caffeine for 90 to 120 minutes after waking the idea here is that your cortisol levels naturally Peak about 30 to 45 minutes after waking up so adding caffeine on top of that could over stimulate your body and lead to a midafternoon crash which for many people just leave to another shot of caffeine but here's the thing research doesn't actually support this and in my experience I haven't personally noticed a difference I actually prefer to have my caffeine as early as possible that's because for for most people caffeine has a halflife of about 6 hours so if you have an energy drink with 200 mg of caffeine at 2 p.m. by 8:00 p.m. your body still has 100 migr circulating in a system and by midnight you'd still have around 50 Mig that's basically like drinking a cup of green tea while you're trying to fall asleep so for me personally shortly after waking at 6:00 a.m. I'll have an Earl gry tea which has about 50 Mig of caffeine just enough to help me bang out a couple hours of deep work and then by 9:00 a.m. I'll have a scoop of our built with science pre-workout which contains 180 Mig of caffeine but also an added ingredient called Eline which helps smooth out the energy boost and prevents a hard crash you usually get from taking that amount of caffeine on its own after that I cuddle caffeine completely for me personally any caffeine after 12:00 p.m even if it's just a green tea or D Coke makes it far more difficult for me to get the quality sleep on but while we spent a lot of time talking about Sleep Quality and what affects it we haven't yet talked about how exactly to measure it well one way to measure Sleep Quality is to do what scientists did and track your nocturnal erections yes this is a real study scientists actually strapped devices onto people while they slept to monitor their biological enthusiasm and according to the data the guys who got better sleep had better results down there while the ones with poor sleep let's just say things just weren't looking so great even biohacking YouTuber Brian Johnson he claims that a healthy male should have 3 to five erections per night lasting a total of 2 and2 hours I had four total erections for a duration of just over 3 hours to put this in context my nighttime erections are the length of the Titanic the movie not the boat and that is better than an average 18-year-old now unless you're planning to mon that somehow more realistic way to track your sleep quality is with a smart ring or band that gives you a sleep score but honestly you'll just know based on how you feel as you're waking up and especially during a morning workout which is arguably the best time to get it done so before YouTube I used to work a standard 95 job and every day I told myself I'd work out right after work but half of the time I'd rather be too exhausted from the day and just make an excuse to skip it or something unexpected would come up by training in the morning you essentially guarantee happens before life can throw you any your curveballs plus you'll ride that post-workout high for hours which can make your day more productive and your mood more stable but the true benefits of a morning workout actually happen at night so a lot of people who struggle with getting good sleep they experience a phase delay in their circadian rhythm this is when your 24-hour internal clock is shifted a bit later making it harder to go to bed early and harder to wake up around Sunrise but recent researches found morning exercise leads to what's known as a circadian phase Advance meeing your Eternal clock actually shifts earlier and drastically improves Sleep Quality and it didn't matter if participants were early birds or night owls this effect was seen across the board now if you're used to training later on the day you might initially notice that your list feel heavier and your performance takes a hit when you first switch to morning workouts that's completely normal your body temperature and neuromuscular activation are actually a bit lower in the morning which can make you feel sluggish but the good news is this is just temporary while pre-workout caffeine can actually help minimize the initial drop in performance your body will quickly adapt and in a few weeks you'll likely be lifting just as much if not more than what you were in the afternoon especially once your sleeve schedule is dialed in that said if you're somebody who just genuinely prefers working out later in the day that's perfectly fine any kind of morning exercise can be beneficial even even if it's just a short while and the benefit of a morning run is it's a guaranteed way to make sure your day just can't get any worse but either before or after morning exercise you want to fuel your body with a proper muscle building breakfast your muscles are in a constant tug-of war between breaking down and building up ideally we want to tip the scales in favor of musle growth but here's the issue when you go a long time without eum protein muscle breakdown actually starts to outpace muscle repair so while getting 7 to 8 hours of quality sleep is great once you wake up it means you've gone a long time without protein potentially putting your body into every Jim bro's worst nightmare a catabolic State I actually had a friend in high school who was so paranoid about this that he'd set an alarm at 3:00 a.m. every single night just to chug approach and Shake was it Overkill probably but was he jacked also say yes and it turns out there's research that in some ways supports this scientists tested two groups of lters both ate the same amount of total daily protein but one group spread their protein evenly across breakfast lunch and dinner the other group ate most of their protein at dinner with very little at breakfast while both groups got stronger the high protein breakfast group actually saw slightly bigger gains in strength and lean muscle mass so skipping or even skimping on your breakfast could mean leaving muscle gains on the table but you often see celebrities like the Rock and Mark Walberg devouring massive protein Rich breakfast I had five eggs I had a pork chop wild smoked salmon some Greek yogurt you start adding it up and you realize this dude is pushing over 100 gram of protein before most people even wake up but doesn't this just go to waste for years Jim Bros believed anything over 30 g of protein in one meal just can't be used by the body luckily scientists recently put this to the test they compared 25 G versus 100 g of protein in a single meal surprisingly muscle protein synthesis kept increasing so even at 100 G in a single meal your body can still use the extra protein to build muscle but the study also shows that eating four times as much protein in a single meal providing just a 30% boost in protein synthesis so my recommendation is to aim for at least 20 to 30 G of high quality protein in your morning meal then spread the rest of your daily intake across a few meal throughout the day but what if you're somebody who prefers working out facet and doesn't like eating anything before the workout while that is fine you have to pay attention to your hunger levels research has shown that if you're hungry going into a workout your performance suffers so if that's you consider a small snack and if not then just make sure that you have a high protein meal within an hour after your workout but here's what I personally do so if I'm training first thing in the morning I'll have a banana with one scoop of my built with science whe protein powder including what's in the protein powder there's only five ingredients in my entire breakfast and 29 G of fast digesting Protein that's it it allows my stomach to quickly digest the food and give me an immediate boost of energy after my workout is when I have my more satiating slow digestive meal and this is usually either oatmeal topped with half a scoop of vs protein powder and Greek yogurt or a sourdough bread sandwich with four whole eggs but you may have noticed that nowhere in my routine did I talk talk about the water temperature of my showers cold exposure whether it's a cold shower or ice bath is believed to be a GameChanger for Muscle Recovery metabolism and looking really really cool on Instagram the bad news is that while cold exposure immediately after workout actually does seem to help you recover quicker it does so by blunting the full recovery process leading to less muscle growth and strength it also hasn't been shown to do anything notable for fat loss so why do so many people love it one reason is it definitely flips your nervous system into high gear heart rate spikes adrenaline and dopamine shoot up and you feel wide awake for these reasons I must admit I am an occasional partaker in cold showers to naturally wake me up but by cold showers I mean I take a really hot shower to warm me up and then I crank it cold for a few seconds and scream like a baby that's enough that's enough so here's my entire morning routine laid out for you there's no need to be a biohacking super villain waking up at 4:00 a.m. for now try even just one of the things I talked about but more importantly tweak it to see what actually works for you and your lifestyle but if you'd like some more personalized help getting started my new built with science Plus app will take care of all the guest work for you it'll create your daily checklist your weekly workouts and your nutritional plan based on your goal it's even got a meal scanner where you can just snap your breakfast and it'll estimate and log all the ingredients and calories for you just like countless others have simply follow what it tells you every day and I guarantee you'll get amazing results you can sign up for 2 weeks free today over at builtwith science.com and then give this video watch next for a full body workout routine you can get started with today to maximize muscle growth thanks so much for watching I'll see you next time

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