just for dads helping each other

I do mostly walking and sneak that in throughout my work day in the office, I'm regularly hitting 10k steps daily that way, though I'm a bit lacking on any other exercises (upper-body or strength training or anything else really). After I drop kids off for school, I've got about 30min free time before work starts, so I go for a 20 min walk and run up about 18 flights of stairs, then repeat again for lunch time and just go on random walks throughout the day. It's 4pm right now and I'm already sitting at +10k steps before I've even left the building for the day.

The problem I have is replicating this routine at home or just starting up any other routine at home. At work, I've got the habit set, I just don't even think about it, it's just automatic, but at home with kids and distractions, it's hard to get anything started, as I'm constantly getting pulled in two or three different directions everytime I walk in the door.

I talked to my therapist about this exact thing last month, and I came away with two things:

1. Schedules will always eventually fail once you're trying to account for 2 kids
2. It gets better (eventually)

If the morning works for you, treat that like your default. But, if you have a rough/unexpected morning, give them (and yourself) some grace and see if you can squeeze it in after bedtime.

If you're losing motivation because of the disruptions to your schedule, I feel that too; I've tried to zoom out a bit and focus on my numbers for the week / month instead of day-by-day to take myself out of that mindset as much. Hang in there dude 👍

I used to go to the gym, but now workout at home. Mostly body weight exercises and cardio. I workout after work, as I hate working up early. Mine are older now but even when younger they didn't mine. The gym had babysitters and eventually I used the YMCA which had awesome childcare options.

I like walking, so my first kid spent a lot of time in the backpack carrier. But two didn’t work

One of my best memories is when we needed a break and went to a cabin in the Adirondacks. He woke up crying way early in the morning crying and I was in a panic that he’d wake everyone, so we went on a hike. I changed him outside, we walked a quick mile or two and he had his first bottle on the mountain, in the wilderness, no other humans nearby, watching the sun rise

I've been lucky enough to work from home and have a partner who takes the kiddo to school as often as possible. In the last year I've still only managed to work out about fifty times total.

I think I'd probably have hit my fitness goal by now if I was able to cut out drinking though.

Not sure I'll be able to, at least until my kid's ADHD is better managed. Holy shit, nobody warned me about that.