How Shawn Johnson East and Andrew East Start Their Morning

Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson East, and her husband Andrew East, a former NFL participant, are, fairly frankly, energy couple targets.

Along with being a adorned gymnast who competed for Crew USA on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Video games, Shawn can also be a New York Occasions best-selling creator, and was a Yahoo sports activities correspondent for the 2024 Olympics. Collectively, Shawn and Andrew have a podcast, and are lively on Instagram sharing enjoyable bodily challenges and relatable household content material.

With three children underneath 4, it’s essential for them to have a scheduled morning plan—however it undoubtedly varies from everyday.

“That is our aspirational morning, however it would not appear like this every single day, by any means,” Andrew tells Effectively+Good. “We name our morning routine the opening ceremonies, with our lengthy checklist of issues that have to be accomplished with the children and the canine. One of many intentional issues we have accomplished is schedule in time for every of us to satisfy our necessities.”

We caught up with Shawn and Andrew to learn the way they handle their mornings and make all of it appear really easy.

Andrew kicks off the morning with a exercise

Andrew often wakes up early round 5 a.m. for his exercise and also will do a sauna and an ice tub. We don’t actually work out collectively. We enable one another area to try this. Later, I will get in my exercise.

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Then, they’ve espresso collectively

We begin our morning out with our espresso, and if we will, we additionally take a while to attach. We love our Breville espresso maker. Ideally we have now 10 minutes to sit down down collectively and skim a morning excerpt to begin the break day with some reflection and a time of thought with one another.

Subsequent, they meal prep for the day

Earlier than the chaos begins and the unpredictability of youngsters pops up, we attempt to get their breakfast and lunches made earlier than they get up. We pack their lunches within the Rubbermaid Brilliance meals storage containers.

These containers are an effective way to maintain every part organized, and when you might have little children round to contemplate every part a throwable merchandise, the truth that they’re shatterproof is unbelievable. We did a complete collection of movies about what they may face up to, and it was a blast! We bought to chuck them from excessive heights, they usually didn’t break. These containers are additionally leakproof—even with spaghetti.

Then, it’s breakfast time for the children and prep for college

Our daughter loves the chickpea chocolate chip peanut butter muffins that we get from the farmer’s market, and our son likes eggs, bananas, and peanut butter. After breakfast we get the children prepared for college and pack up their Stoney Clover Lane backpacks.

It’s now Shawn’s flip to work out and eat breakfast

After we get the primary spherical accomplished with the children, I will train and have breakfast. My go-to breakfast is a thick piece of sourdough bread with butter and a fried egg. I even have a hack for scrambled eggs: cottage cheese. I have been placing cottage cheese in my eggs for years, and it’s the most effective.

Lastly, it is time to get to work

We attempt actually laborious to get our work accomplished from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or intermittently all through the day whereas the children are doing an exercise or are at college. We additionally attempt to steadiness as a lot child time inside the work time as we will.

One factor we’ve realized is to not do each on the identical time. At first we have been making an attempt to multitask and reply to emails and do Zoom calls with the children operating round, and also you’re not capable of be current in both. This resulted in numerous frustration.

We’re nice at tapping one another out and in when work must be accomplished as a result of we wish to be with the children as a lot as we will. One of the simplest ways to try this is to have a fluid system that we talk by means of properly.

This interview has been edited for size and readability.