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Hey all I'm so glad I found this site!! I'm 5'7 and 225lbs, I am unhappy with the way I look and want a drastic change. The reason I say this is because I love my wife very much and we want a family together. I dont want to be one of those dads that can't keep up with their kids.

i also want to feel better about myself. I started the couch to 5k running program and I LOVE it!! Anyone that wants to get a running program check this out, I recommend it!! I'm excited to meet like minded individuals on this site that share the same goals as me. Honestly no one can do it for us we HAVE to do it for ourselves!!!!
 
Good for you. Word of warning from a crazy but pretty fit old man, your kids will always tire you out, its what they do.
If you need to be dad fit, it will involve a lot of cardio, and functional stuff, like circuits and assault course type training. This is because your child will want you to chase them through a play area designed for people under 3 feet tall for extended durations. No amount of lifting iron alone will prepare you for this but it will be fine alongside. While being agile enough not to injure anyone else playing.
My son loves me doing this sort of thing because I can be moving around the outside of the scaffold like play areas then lift myself onto them to give a mild roar and see him running mock scared. Catching him is largely irrelevant, duration and excitement are the key points.
Also being able to shoulder carry them for extended time periods tends to be popular. Also mock wrestling (not WWF) with tickling, dangling them behind your back by the ankles asking where they are then bending forward to look between your legs when they tell you. Basically anything silly and physical.

Our reward. They will laugh and we will sleep more soundly, then they will ask for it all again and we will know they love and aspire to be fit like us. It doesn't get any better.
 
@ mrrgoyer - welcome to the forum and good luck in your training

@ crazyoldman - thanks for your post, I got a few good laughs out of it as I'm guessing it's totally true!
 
True and then some. The fitter and more able you are the more your children will demand of you. One of the funniest things I have seen is my wife playing chase in a soft play with my son. There was a section with two horizontal rollers, my son flew through, my wife being a natural power lifter got temporarily stuck when her, let's say bench press aids, got wedged.
My son found that the joy of riding a go-kart downhill at terrifying pace was matched only by having daddy run up the hill pulling him and having the front occasionally lift. Fortunately he has moved on to gear bicycles now and gets up his own hills.
The time I paid most dearly for being fit with my son is definitely when I decided to take part in a work charity run, a bit under 3.5 miles taking in tarmac, golf course and moor land. I didn't intend to take it seriously so took my then three year old son in a back carry with both of us in fancy dress, his part included a plastic sword. Unsure how I would go I set of steady and picked up, while many had set off quickly and had to slow. This meant us overtaking many much to my son's delight. One delightful runner told my son to spur me on a bit with the sword, an instruction he followed for the final 2.5 miles by prodding me in the side. It wasn't properly painful and he was having too much fun to make him stop, but I did get a lovely set of bruises for a few days. They took photos of me before the start and crossing the line, I went from quite tidy black face paint to Alice Cooper clone. I have found the photos and finish link is in my profile, for anyone needing a laugh.
 
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@mrrgoyer - Excited for you! My husband, like you, just decided one day that he was going to get fit, and he hasn't looked back since. That was about 7 years ago, and now we look at old pictures of him and laugh. I think it's so cool that you just made a decision to do it, and now you're doing it! :)
 
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