Do you worry what to do with your healthy living routine when you go on vacation?
I just returned from a 2 week summer holiday with my family.
After eating whatever I wanted and not exercising for 2 weeks I probably shattered every health and fitness commandment.
But you won’t see me doing the “cardio confessional” slaving on the treadmill feeling the food guilt for the rest of the summer.
After years of sticking to my fitness routine I have a plan that allows me to enjoy my vacations and get back on track …

Fast Food For Fit Families
Tasty Turkey Meatloaf
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 onions, peeled and sliced
• 2 tsp of bottled basil pesto
• 4 button mushrooms, cleaned and chopped
• 2 pounds of ground turkey
• 1/2 cup of skim milk
• 1/2 cup of instant oatmeal
• 2 omega 3 enriched eggs
• 1/2 cup of your favorite tomato sauce
• A few dashes Worcestershire sauce
• …

With the Sun hanging in the sky a little longer, it naturally gives you more energy to do some spring cleaning inside and outside the house.
Just opening up all the windows in your house after the long winter months will awaken your senses with fresh new energy.
So it’s time to spring ahead with your workouts as well and clean up some of the bad training habits that you may have picked up during the winter.
1. Watch Your Watch
With summer just around the corner you are probably more concerned with getting …

FACT:
A lot of buff dads might be able to load up the bar with hundreds of pounds for endless sets of the bench press but can’t even do 10 CORRECT push ups…
I don’t think you have any business bench pressing if you can’t properly perform at least 10 perfect pushups.
If you can’t handle your own bodyweight, how functional is it to lie down on a bench and press additional weight?
Don’t get me wrong, the basic barbell bench press is a great upper body exercise for building strength and muscle, but …

Do you want to know the one food that has all you need to build lean muscle and burn bodyfat? Oh yeah, and it tastes great AND is easy to prepare!
Your mother always told you to “eat your breakfast,” it’s the most important meal of the day!” Well, your Mom was right… again.
Just think of the word Break-Fast for a minute. You are breaking the fast of going all night without eating and get this… eating breakfast is a daily habit for the people who belong to The National Weight …

Did you have to pay the airlines “overweight” on your way home from your last business trip? …and no I am not talking about your luggage.
For a lot of busy dads it seems just when we get on a role with our workouts and healthy eating, it all goes out the window when we have to go out of town for work.
I recently spent a week in Tampa, Florida, attending and speaking at fitness seminars with all the top fitness professionals, and I started to pick up on some …

I remember it like it was yesterday…
Being 16 and squatting down to pick up my books out of my high school gym locker and screaming in agony because my legs were so damn sore from my very FIRST leg workout!
But pain soon turned to laughs as I also heard my best friend and training partner at the time scream out profanities as he tried to bend down at his locker just down the hall.
Luckily back then I could lay around the house for days and play Super Mario Bros. until …

E=mc²
You might remember this from your old high school math class.
It was Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
Despite Einstein’s well known brilliance, what amazes me even more was he was also a busy dad of 3 kids.
Einstein was known for challenging the status quo, and I think if he was alive today he would tell us busy dads who continue to waste time on long boring workouts that leave us even more exhausted to smarten up and fly right!

Einstein doing his interval training

So let’s do the math…
A typical workout may look …

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”
“Knowledge is power.”
Inspirational quotes are great for motivation and posting on your Facebook account, but they will do nothing for you if you don’t take action.
Along with taking action, do you want to know the real secret to transforming your body and losing weight?
It’s what everyone uses to be successful to lose weight and gain lean muscle in the shortest amount of time.
Professional athletes use it…
Competitive bodybuilders use it…
Brides to be use it…
and …

Rules… As parents we are famous for them. As kids we hated them. Young and old, we all need structure in our lives simply because it works.
When it comes to designing your own workout routine, don’t get paralysis by analysis by the 1,950,000 results looking back at you from Google.
..and please don’t try to follow some of the marathon bodybuilding workouts from the muscles mags on your local newsstand unless you want to break your body down instead of build it up.
No cookie cutter workout program works best for everybody, …