@redeemedsinner Thanks for sharing. I think it’s definitely a tale of two needs when we talk workout after kids.
On the one hand, after each of my kids I had to recognize that because baby was priority I had to learn to be okay with just exercising once or twice a week. Was it my goal? No. But in that season of life my workout goals were WAY down on the totem pole of importance.
On the other hand, I know a lot of parents that used kids as an excuse to put their whole health-life on hold. Babies meant pizza multiple times a week and no exercise for months.
For them in incredibly sympathetic, becaue raising children is HARD work. But you can’t do 30 pushups and squats before a shower? It takes minutes. You can’t ask a spouse to cover the baby for 20 minutes to go on a walk/jog?
This sub is almost certainly self selecting for people who value fitness, so I agree there are a ton of things that hit the back burner when we have kids, especially young. But there are definitely a ton of parents that could benefit from realizing that they have more time than they realize.