Self-help guru who wakes up at 3:52am claps back at critics

Before he starts work, this man’s day has a 62-step, five-hour routine that has left many in disbelief. Now he’s revealed his night-time habits.

A fitness influencer who was savagely roasted for starting his day at 3:52am in a bizarre hustle-culture video has clapped back at critics.

Ashton Hall, a “self-help” guru with over 15 million followers on TikTok and Instagram, went viral for all the wrong reasons recently when he detailed his five-hour morning routine.

His lengthy start to the day includes mouth tape, banana peel facials, ice dunking and lots of bottled water.

However after the “bonkers” clip was roasted by the internet and even parodied by Saturday Night Live (SNL) on the weekend, Hall has now revealed how he “manages to wake up” at such an early hour.

‘Bad decisions are made late at night’

In a new evening routine video, the hustle-culture king revealed that after his five-hour morning routine and the three hours he spends as a “CEO”, he doesn’t actually have much time left before he starts thinking about going to sleep.

At 5:02pm exactly, he has an ice bath that lasts until 5:20pm and involves a lot of heavy breathing.

He then transitions to an indoor bath, which presumably was made this time with warm water, where he not only soaks but also eats a hearty meal of steak, prawns and salmon with a side green veggies.

At 5:52pm Hall gets out of the bath, takes a phone call while watching the sun go down on his high rise apartment, before giving himself another banana peel facial and turning down the AC.

He then brushes his teeth, tapes up his mouth and applies cologne before eventually getting into bed at bang on 7pm where he proceeds to read the Bible before lights out at 7:34pm.

“Night routine. How I managed to wake up at 3:50 AM. Bad decisions are made late at night. Go to sleep,” Hall captioned the video, which has already amassed 18 million views since it was posted on Saturday.

The internet has been left baffled

Hall, who promises “you can reinvent your entire life in 1 year” following his self-help guides, is copping a similar fate for his evening routine with many left asking: “Why?”

“Bro spends all day getting ready for the day,” one shared.

“Why is no one talking about the cologne for bed?” another asked.

As one remarked: “This life looks so sad.”

It followed a similar response to Hall’s morning routine video, which has been viewed over 106 million times to date, and was labelled “bonkers” by viewers.

In that clip, the online fitness coach was seen performing push-ups at 4:04am, dunking his face in a bowl of ice-cold water at 5:49am and performing an array of tasks such as journaling, a banana peel facial, and going for a swim before dunking his face in ice water again and starting work just after 9:30am.

In total, there were 68 steps to Hall’s morning routine, with many noting he’d done almost a full day’s work before he even did any actual work.

Video ‘highlights the pressures men face’

As well as becoming the laughing stock of TikTok, the video also attracted criticism from experts who have called out the broader online landscape of alpha male lifestyle content.

The idea of needing to “rise and grind” promotes “extreme, if not dubious, practices around exercise and wellness,” Harmeet Kaur, a CNN reporter, wrote.

“There’s nothing inherently wrong with self-discipline and vigorous exercise, or taking great care of your body. But also implicit in this genre of social media content, some critics and observers say, are more insidious messages — ones that distort our perceptions of masculinity.”

But, as Robert Lawson – an associate professor of sociolinguistics at England’s Birmingham City University and author of ‘Language and Masculinities’ warns, the extreme optimisation of hustle-culture comes at a cost.

To me, it seems like quite a sterile existence — one that doesn’t have space for the messiness of real life,” Lawson told CNN.

What these influencers present “doesn’t capture the messy and complex realities of the vast majority of people’s day-to-day lives” and often, Lawson notes, shows the men alone, with no friends, spouse or kids in sight.

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