Three Women, Three Morning Routines: Here's How To Get The Most Out of Your Mornings

6:00am: Wake up, open the curtains or window and get natural daylight into my eyes. I drink a large glass of water with WillPowders ElectroTides, usually Watermelon or Cherry, with a teaspoon of Bovine Collagen.

6:15am: First coffee with WillPowders Keto Powder. The Irish grass-fed butter and coconut MCTs give me steady energy and help stop me reaching for a carb-heavy breakfast.

6:30am: Start getting myself and the boys ready. Uniforms, bags, breakfast and the usual morning negotiations!

8:00am: Boys out of the door and off to school.

8:05am: Take my Brain Powder as a quick shot and put my running playlist on before I get changed. It takes around 15 minutes to kick in, so by the time I’m dressed, the music is going, and I’m straight out before my brain can negotiate its way out of it!

8:20am: Run or move for around 25–45 minutes. I often include box breathing because the rhythm of running, music and deeper breathing helps organise my otherwise scattergun brain and plan the day.

9:00am: Cold finish if I feel I need the extra boost, followed by a warm shower.

9:15am: Get ready for work and sometimes have another coffee. I generally stay fat-fuelled through the morning because I work much better without the energy crash from a carb-heavy breakfast.

9:30am: Start work feeling calmer, more focused and ready to go.

10am:  Now it’s time for more hydration, loaded with G-Help for a nutrition boost and Bovine Collagen.

That’s the ideal version, anyway. Some mornings involve missing shoes, lost school bags and mild hostage negotiations!

6:45am: During the week, I wake up at 6:45am. I aim for 8 hours of sleep a night, which is a lot easier now that my boys are teenagers — they sleep in, and these days I'm usually in bed before either of them!

7am: I have a quick shower, then head downstairs to wake the boys and make their breakfast. I don't eat breakfast myself — I fast for as long as I can. I've been doing this for nearly a year and a half now, and I feel so much better for it: more energy, less brain fog, and I've lost over a stone in weight.

7:30am: To keep me going, I make a very large coffee with organic instant coffee and about three scoops of MCT Keto Creamer, so it ends up more like a latte. I add 5g of Bovine Collagen too, since that doesn't break my fast, and take it with me on the drive from Manchester to Clitheroe, where Willpowders HQ is based.

8:30am: Once I'm at my desk, it's time for coffee number two (same MCT and collagen combo) while I catch up on emails. 

11am: I have a Cherry ElectroTide — genuinely one of my favourite parts of the day. I can really feel the benefit, and I've noticed I feel a lot less bloated since making it a daily habit.

1pm: Lunch is usually around this time, and it's always the same: crackers, cheese and salad — basically a ploughman's lunch. The girls on my team tease me for how posh it sounds! I'll have a Fresh Kombucha made with sparkling water, and a Sour Cherry or Zingy Watermelon Electro_Ice pop for dessert.

I'm a real creature of habit and stick to this routine religiously — unless I'm exhausted or nursing a hangover, in which case a Brain Powder joins the lineup for a bit of get-up-and-go. Piña Colada is my flavour of choice, every time.

5:30am:  Wake up. Ouch. Honestly, it doesn’t get any easier. First thing: a strong cup of tea with cow’s milk. I’m very fussy about my tea — it has to be strong.

5:45am: Hydrate + head out.  Fill my water bottle with Cherry ElectroTides and drive to the gym.

6:15am: 45-minute HIIT class. Early and painful, but I love having it done before the day really starts.

7:00am: Drive to Clitheroe. Straight from the gym to work.

8:00am: Arrive + get ready. Shower and get ready at work — because the WillPowders showers are actually boujee. At my desk and ready to go by around 8:30am.

8:45am: Coffee with MCT Creamer. Non-negotiable.

10:00am: Strawberry Protein, half water and half cow’s milk. I add Bovine Collagen as well, just for that extra collagen hit — even though the protein already contains bone broth.

11:30am: G-Help as a hydrating drink. I really like the ginger flavour — it’s genuinely refreshing, and I’m getting those added multivitamins in at the same time.