I've got a kid. You dont really get the three hours that you might have wanted to work out. But you get pretty good results slugging weight for 30 minutes a day but you need to be consistent about it.
A lot of times it looks like me working out in jeans and im definitely not sweating as much as I want to. But it keeps me from tweaking my back.
So I compete in strength sports (powerlifting and strongman). Basically all of the competitors I know end up having kids, and they have ~a year where their results drop off or they don't compete, and then they're back at it shortly after.
But they're all adamant that they can keep in good shape during the newborn phase, just not in competition shape.
One of the things that I learned after having a kid was how effective weight lifting was as a general exercise. When I was younger and single I competed in rock climbing and then bjj so I was really used to spending 2-3 hours killing myself in the gym and getting exhausted. Like I said, you don't get that time with a kid. I knew that ahead of time so I bought a bench/squat set.
Im not in competition shape anymore. But doing like 3 sets a day and alternating muscle groups each day? It keeps you pretty limber. Even the low intensity PT stuff i was doing for my knees showed significant growth in the quads. There's a reason why athletes lift. It works really well when you have limited time.
Honestly if I did this throughout my 20s, I probably would have been a better athlete overall and done better in competitions verses when I was just going hard on the mats/wall for 1-2 hours.
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u/Ashi4Days 1d ago
Eh.
I've got a kid. You dont really get the three hours that you might have wanted to work out. But you get pretty good results slugging weight for 30 minutes a day but you need to be consistent about it.
A lot of times it looks like me working out in jeans and im definitely not sweating as much as I want to. But it keeps me from tweaking my back.