A third of us wake up on the wrong side of the bed! Scientists have come up with a formula for the perfect morning routine.
A mathematician, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, president-elect of the British Science Association, and Special K Cereal came together for this study.
The formula involves waking up early, 6.44am to be precise, getting out of bed at 7.12am, before exercising for precisely 21 minutes, then head into the shower for 10 minutes before spending 18 minutes eating breakfast.
Time to bust out your calculator to see of you wake up on the wrong or right side of the bed. To see if your routine fits the criteria, experts suggest the following calculations:
1. Double the number of minutes you spend on breakfast, so for example if you spend 10 minutes on breakfast this will be doubled to 20 minutes.
2. Then add the minutes you spend exercising and showering, for example if you spend 20 minutes exercising and 5 minutes showering this would add up to 25 minutes.
3. Next, work out the difference, in hours, between how long you slept and the recommended eight hours – so, for example, the difference is 1.5 if you slept for six and a half hours.
4. Then calculate the difference, in hours, between when you got up and the optimum 7.12am get-up time. So the answer would be one hour (if you got up at 8.12am) and two hours if it was 9.12am.
5. The figure you got when you added your total minutes for breakfast (doubled), plus exercise and showering is then divided by the sleeping calculation in step 3 and multiplied by the getting up time calculation in step 4.
6. You’ll then need to add the minutes spent doing things such as scrolling social media or doing a crossword, for example 15 minutes.
7. If the number you get to is less than 37 you will get out the ‘wrong side’ of bed, and if it’s more than 37 you will get out the ‘right side’ of bed.