Mark Wahlberg’s 3:30 a.m. wake-up actually isn’t as crazy as you think

James Julian
Famously Healthy
Published in
4 min readFeb 21, 2023

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Of all the productivity legends out there, Mark Wahlberg’s 3:30 a.m. wake-up time might be the most infamous.

You’ve heard of the 5 a.m. club.

More and more on this site and elsewhere, I’m seeing people vouching for a 4 a.m. wake-up time.

But even those brave souls aren’t as crazy as actor/entrepreneur Mark Wahlberg is.

Is he really that crazy though?

Let me tell you why I think he isn’t.

Mark Wahlberg’s 3:30 a.m. wake-up actually isn’t as crazy as you think
Mark Wahlberg (Credit: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mark Wahlberg’s 3:30 a.m. secret

One of the reasons people are so drawn to Wahlberg’s story is because the dude seems absolutely superhuman.

Not only is he a successful actor and producer, but he is also constantly building side businesses (he owns a clothing line called Municipal, a gym chain called F45, and a restaurant chain called Wahlburgers).

And, at the same time, he stays absolutely jacked.

How does Wahlberg find the time to be a father, husband, famous movie star, and businessman, and still have several hours a day to spend in the gym building a cartoon superhero body?

Enter the legend of the 3:30 a.m. wake-up time.

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