Staying fit in 2025

With a new kid and much less time than I had previously, I’m now faced with the decision on what to change in my lifestyle. There’s a lot of hard things to give up, but that’s necessary when you have a kid. You just can’t have it all unless you have an amazing support system or a ton of money to pay for help. Unfortunately Sophia and I don’t have either of those luxuries.

The easiest thing to weed out is my social life. I knew that would suffer. I would golf less and see my friends less. Dinners out just don’t happen anymore. That’s fine.

One area that I’m for sure trying to maintain is my health. Obviously that’s probably the most important thing besides the kid. I used to be someone who loved spending 1.5-2 hours at the gym. I’m not a workout junkie, but it was a time for me to catch up on reading and get a good workout in. Or go on a long run.

In order to make this work, I’ve had to cut my time working out significantly. So last night I spent a couple hours researching the Minimum Effective Dose workouts which in short is the minimum amount of working out twice a week to maintain and build muscle.

I’m excited for it as it brings in new exercises and forces me to really focus on getting a good workout in. I’m hoping to condense my workouts down to 45 minutes tops with 15 minutes for stretching/showering.

Change is always a good thing and I haven’t been this excited to actually work out in awhile.