Fitness

I stared at the gym schedule on my phone, trying to squeeze in both lifting and cardio while juggling six kids’ activities. Sound familiar? After years of choosing between deadlifts or distance runs, I discovered something better — a hybrid training workout that gives you the best of both worlds without sacrificing either. Here’s the…

Saturday morning hits and I’m already behind. School bags scattered, breakfast dishes stacked, and my coffee’s gone cold—again. Sound familiar? If weekends feel more like survival mode than rest time, you’re not alone. After homeschooling five kids and surviving countless chaotic weekends, I’ve learned something crucial: rest isn’t a luxury for busy families—it’s fuel. But…

Look, I’m not going to sugarcoat it—maintaining fitness with six kids running around feels like trying to complete an obstacle course while juggling flaming torches. But here’s what twenty-plus years of parenting and my Air Force background taught me: the slow and steady approach to fitness goals and challenges actually works better than any crash…

🏁 Starting Where You Are: No Shame in Day One We’ve all seen the before-and-after photos, the six-week transformations, the viral fitness trends that promise to melt off 20 pounds like magic. But here’s a little truth bomb from this dad of six: most lasting change doesn’t come in six weeks—it comes in six months,…

Family fitness tips changed everything for our household. Three weeks ago, I watched my 8-year-old daughter attempt to lift a gallon of milk and struggle. Not because she was weak, but because she’d been spending more time with screens than moving her body. That moment hit me harder than any wake-up call I’d ever received….

Let me be brutally honest about something. Between work deadlines, kid activities, and trying to maintain some semblance of sanity, finding time for a full gym session feels about as realistic as getting my teenagers to clean their rooms without being asked seventeen times. But here’s what I’ve discovered after years of trial and error:…

Between chasing six kids around the house and trying to maintain some semblance of fitness as a dad, I’ve learned that gym memberships are like unicorns—beautiful in theory, but nearly impossible to make work in real life. Trust me, I’ve tried the whole “let’s all go to the gym together” approach with five daughters and…

Walk into any gym and you’ll see people doing exercises that look impressive but might not be doing much for their muscles. Meanwhile, the person quietly doing basic movements in the corner could be getting twice the results. The difference? They understand which exercises actually work—and science backs them up. Electromyography studies have revolutionized how…

Finding the best workouts for kids isn’t as simple as scaling down adult fitness routines. Every parent knows the struggle of trying to channel their child’s energy into something productive, but the real challenge is matching activities to developmental stages. What works for a bouncing toddler will be completely wrong for a self-conscious teenager. I’ve…

The gym can feel like a mystery sometimes. You’re told to squat, deadlift, and curl your way to stronger muscles, but how do you know which exercises actually work best? That’s where the magic of science steps in, and EMG studies and fitness research provide the answers. ✅ The game-changer? Electromyography studies — or EMG…