If you've followed my blogs, my Instagram, or in conversation (some of you), you may have noticed the whole #destroythedadbod or the #fightthefluffy tags that I use sometimes. And many of you that know me personally know that I have three kids. This leads me to my next point, the parent "bods."
As a dad, and one who's battled with weight my whole life, I have at times a "dad bod." About 3 months ago, I had a radical change of direction on my training and diet and I'd consider myself to have a "dad-bod light" at this point. I've been running, lifting, sparring, and actually monitoring what I eat. All of these things have allowed for me to drop, as of last week, 15lbs. When in the midst of my heaviness, I didn't realize I was as heavy as I was and on top of that I got into the rut of thinking "I'm working out pretty hard, I need the calories." How wrong was I?
Regarding the "mom bod," this is much harder to fight than the "dad bod." Generally due to you know, having kids, the mother's body is under far more stress than a father's. This stress can come from the generally interesting "pregnancy cravings," to the longer lasting effects of the variations in hormone productions due to pregnancy and possible lactation. With all of this, the diet must be even more fine tuned for a woman than a man, and on top of that the exercise is equally important.
The final thing to consider, for both, is the stress of having a new child or in my & my wife's case, multiple children. Things that you want to go ahead and try to do, like exercise and eat well, sometimes fall to the wayside so that the kids are properly cared for, or satisfied (chicken nuggets and mac & cheese isn't exactly healthy, but it keeps them fed at times.). Allowing the time to exercise sometimes get's replaced by doing things around the house, or falling asleep. There are many more challenges to keeping a reasonable physique with kids in the house than when there are none.
In the next week, I'll have a couple of posts to go into how to better prepare your time with the kids in the house and with a chaotic lifestyle.
As a dad, and one who's battled with weight my whole life, I have at times a "dad bod." About 3 months ago, I had a radical change of direction on my training and diet and I'd consider myself to have a "dad-bod light" at this point. I've been running, lifting, sparring, and actually monitoring what I eat. All of these things have allowed for me to drop, as of last week, 15lbs. When in the midst of my heaviness, I didn't realize I was as heavy as I was and on top of that I got into the rut of thinking "I'm working out pretty hard, I need the calories." How wrong was I?Regarding the "mom bod," this is much harder to fight than the "dad bod." Generally due to you know, having kids, the mother's body is under far more stress than a father's. This stress can come from the generally interesting "pregnancy cravings," to the longer lasting effects of the variations in hormone productions due to pregnancy and possible lactation. With all of this, the diet must be even more fine tuned for a woman than a man, and on top of that the exercise is equally important.
The final thing to consider, for both, is the stress of having a new child or in my & my wife's case, multiple children. Things that you want to go ahead and try to do, like exercise and eat well, sometimes fall to the wayside so that the kids are properly cared for, or satisfied (chicken nuggets and mac & cheese isn't exactly healthy, but it keeps them fed at times.). Allowing the time to exercise sometimes get's replaced by doing things around the house, or falling asleep. There are many more challenges to keeping a reasonable physique with kids in the house than when there are none.
In the next week, I'll have a couple of posts to go into how to better prepare your time with the kids in the house and with a chaotic lifestyle.
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