you have young kids, right? How do you fit your workouts in with them? Curious how others do it.
Yes. We have a 1 yr old and a 5 yr old. I actually started Farrells when our youngest was 3 months old.
I wish I had a secret to share with you but in reality, I got lucky. First, my wife is a stay at home mom. While her and I split baby duty (I’m not one to ask her to do it all so I could sleep), it still made it just a little easier. Also, our baby slept very well, very early. By 2 months we were getting 8 straight hours.
My best advice is to do your workouts first thing in the morning before anyone else is up. I usually do a 6am workout which requires me to leave the house by 530am. Sometimes I do a 5am workout if I have an early work meeting. I would not have any success going later in the day because I’d feel very guilty knowing my wife was at her wits end at home and asking her to go one more hour without me to help.
A big thing that changed for me was just the mental commitment. When I was doing the 10 week program at farrells, nothing was going to stop me from being at class. There were nights were I got only 4 hrs of sleep, but I still got my workout in. Once I crossed some of those hurdles, any future obstacles seemed smaller. Now it doesn’t sound so crazy to get up at 4am for a workout because I’ve done it so many times. Just knowing it’s possible was a big obstacle that I overcame. Listen to anything by David Goggins. His book really helped me with the idea that there are very few reasons to give in other than what’s inside our head. Legitimate extenuating circumstances happen, but not nearly as often as we make it out to be.
