With work to go to, businesses to run, kids to put to bed, homework to check, dishes to get done, and wives to spend time with, it’s almost impossible for most dads to squeeze in a exercise. The solution I found was to focus on practicing body weight exercises. Here are some reasons why you should be doing body weight exercises if you’re a busy dad…

Effectiveness – Are you wondering if body weight exercises are effective? Just ask the police officers, firemen, and elite fighters who live and die by these exercises. They won’t be the biggest guys you’ll ever come across, but they’ll be among the strongest. And that’s the only thing that matters. If you feel like you’ve hit a plateau, you can add weights, increase the reps and do variations. It’s easy to find weighted vests to add more resistance to your situps, pullups, etc.

Efficiency – Body weight exercises are effective and incredibly economical, so there’s no excuse not to do them. Just think, you can finally start saving for that pony your daughter has always wanted! Not only are body weight exercises and isometrics financially efficient, they are time efficient. In certain martial arts there is a strong emphasis on “economy of movement”, which means you shouldn’t exert a lot of energy on something if it’s not necessary to do so. Focus on the task before you and complete it with an appropriate amount of effort.

Speed – Body weight and isometric exercises are fast. Some say that an isometric contraction needs to last just 7 seconds for you to start benefiting from it. When done properly, isometrics recruit more muscle fibers than isolated exercises, and the more muscle fibers that are used, the more you build up your strength. If you stay focused, your workout can be done in under 30 minutes.

Clearly, weight training is incredibly important if you want to build lots of muscle. If we could spare an hour for the gym everyday we would. But with a lifestyle that that has to accommodate so many non-exercise related tasks, body weight training is the next best thing.

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