Pick an activity that's active that doesn't feel like you're working out with your kids.

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke,

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What's up, guys? Welcome back to Five Minute Fatherhood. So one of the things that often we have to struggle with as dads

is we get overwhelmed and one of the first things to go is exercise. And oftentimes you kind of

think to yourself, well, you know, that's just the cost of this season of family life.

But one of the problems that can really begin to emerge very quickly is that for a lot of guys,

this is an area where you really start to break very quickly is that for a lot of guys, this is an area

where you really start to break down if you don't have areas where you can really physically

exert yourselves. I started to kind of have these kinds of excuses about exercising, and I just

noticed over time it was just having an impact on me emotionally, spiritually. And I know one thought that really helped me

understand where this fit in my life was is the idea that if you can't get out of your mind,

get into your body. And I was finding myself getting just sort of trapped, you know, in sort of

mental loops, emotional loops,

and really exerting myself physically was sort of pop me out of that state. And so I found it just

really absolutely crucial. It wasn't even the physical health that I really sort of drove me

to be a little bit more disciplined. But it was really realizing that this has made me a much more healthy person. And I want to be that person for my work and for my family. But this can be tough to do as you're building family. So I wanted to go back and forth with Jeff real quick and ask, okay, how do you get exercise as a family team? Because one of our prescriptions to you guys, you hear us talk about a lot, is if you find that you don't have time to do something,

maybe the answer is to integrate it into the family, as opposed to just sort of drop it completely.

And so one idea that we've tried to do to try to integrate exercise into family is we got really into different racket sports.

We were into tennis for a while.

Now we're getting into pickleball, which is awesome. Jeff and I are both from the Northwest. We're this amazing sport originated. And it's taking over all the way here in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. We've got pickleball courts. I didn't even know this until a friend of mine told me. So I went out to Costco, bought the paddles, and we've been hanging out there as a family.

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