Welcome to Fit Fathers
Honestly - we all want to look good naked. We all want to feel strong, confident and warrior like. This takes effort and as we know Fathers don't have a whole lot of time. So this site is for anyone looking for a short, intense and effective workout program. Its based mainly on Kettlebells, which in my opinion, give you one of the best workouts on the planet.
Kettlebells are amazing!
Most Kettlebell exercises use your whole body, so in 20 minutes you get the equivalent of an hour on the treadmill, (though we do a 30 minute program). What’s more, you strengthen your upper body and core at the same time.
I love the fact that once you get the hang of the exercises, it would be easy to do them at home, in the garage or the back yard. 30 minutes for 4 times a week. Definitely do-able for any busy father who wants to have the strength to play with his kids & not have that ‘sympathy pregnancy’ thing going on.
So that’s the exercise, a Kettlebell based program, with some other ‘body weight’ exercises thrown in. However for those who want to, there is also the nutritional side. Frankly, if you’re interested in fat loss then you must take a long, hard look at what you eat. For example if you want to lose a kilo of fat a week, to burn that up through exercise alone, would require running 3 marathons! & who's going to do that!
Initially, we focus on the basics of good nutrition and I encourage people to keep a food journal. This is often quite a revelation in itself and can shock people into doing something different. Depending on the person, I normally don’t radically change what people eat for the first while, but I would ask that if people are eating rubbish, that at least they eat less of it :-)
I’m not a fan of ‘diets’, because they tend to be for a period of time & often after the ‘program’ - people just put the weight back on as they resume ‘normal life’. In addition, diets have the inherent issue of how you body deals with most diets, as it thinks its ‘starving’ and so it actually works against what you are trying to on your diet. I like to encourage people to implement an 'eating plan', to adopt a different ‘lifestyle’ of eating. Choosing foods which provide you with the necessary nutrition for health, energy and vitality. This different way of eating has the ‘by-product’ that you WILL lose fat and fairly effortlessly, yet not feel deprived.
Come along and join us - Richard