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Working out after a new born.

Thats how we do it. I sleep all night.
Train two mornings a week and two nights a week. Help out every other evening where I can.
Its actually a tonne of fun!

Tim.

dude, that sounds good for you but I bet inside your mrs is seething, gone two mornings and nights a week!!

the guys have it easy new borns are hard fucking work, they require your full fucking attention. At least I get out of the house for 10-12 hrs a day.
 
dude, that sounds good for you but I bet inside your mrs is seething, gone two mornings and nights a week!!

the guys have it easy new borns are hard fucking work, they require your full fucking attention. At least I get out of the house for 10-12 hrs a day.

Nah she is fine with it mate :)
I help Alot when I am here. Well as much as I can. Bath time, all nappies before i hit the sack, general nursing etc. I enjoy all of it I must admit.

Tim.
 
Got that fun coming in August.

Plus going to have the inlaws here for two months then my mum down for a few weeks.
Going to be interesting as the inlaws barely speak any English and my Chinese is fairly terrible.
 
Got that fun coming in August.

Plus going to have the inlaws here for two months then my mum down for a few weeks.
Going to be interesting as the inlaws barely speak any English and my Chinese is fairly terrible.

Good stuff. In laws for a few months to help? Or tell you how to do everything? Lol
I reckon I'll be doing the deck of cards (35-40mins) for the next few weeks. Hard sesh, least time. My wife is happy for me to train, baby #2 born 2 days ago, but I don't want the marathon sessions when I could be helping out. Lots to help with too!! Especially with our eldest, getting her ready, settled, washed etc! Fun times. I still plan to be the fittest dad in the kids pools this coming summer
 
Help supposedly.
I've my mum to tell me what to do as well(retired midwife/nurse/family daycare problem child specialist etc).
 
Have my second child on the way next week and no doubt lack of sleep will be a factor. I am doing Tough Mudder in August again so need to keep up the strength and fitness. Problem is the extra duties to take care of.

I normally run around 4.30am but can't see that happening after sleepless nights. I have a small window to get to work and be out of work to be able to pick my son up from daycare and then doing the dad duties when I get home.

Weekends are usually the rest period but I am starting to think maybe I could fit in my big workouts on these days.

Anyway got any tips on working out with limited time?
Don't know anything about you except from what I just read above. I had my 5th girl 11 months ago and all is great. Look at this in a positive way, and the proof that you are doing so already is the fact that you've posted this thread. By that I mean this new baby has got you to think of an alternative way; a better way, a smarter way to train perhaps. Have you considered the fact that you can activate all your muscles with about 4 exercises! Two days for weight training and the rest for a much needed dopamine hit, released via that ancient (and natural movement) we call walking.

Congratulations on your second child.



Fadi.
 
[MENTION=2727]Fadi[/MENTION]; welcome back friend. Its nice to be reading your posts again. :)

And congrats on the 5th mate!

Tim.
 
From what I can recall, the happy arrival of a baby equals no sex for quite some time, or at best disputes over why she's saying no. Use that unproductive time to workout, both your body generally and your dick in particular. Then you won't be so tired, nor so cranky, doing father duties. But you will get less sleep, so make sure you take your ZMA just before you turn in.
 
We have two kids, and my misses was off work after they were born and it should not really affect your life too much.

If she still works full time then it's a lot harder as time is at a premium and you need to help out.

Can't see what you would be helping out with if she is at home full time? As everything should be done before you get home, cuddle the baby for a while train go to bed and then go to work etc etc.

If she is at home full time and looking after a baby and complains she needs a reality check and is pulling the wool over your eyes, often women will do this to justify themselves as to how hard their life is. When really they are meeting their friends over at Gloria Jeans for coffee to bitch about how lazy their husband is thats been at work since 5am to pay for their coffee and soccer mum 4x4 they drove to the shops. Then it's the mad rush home in time for Judge Judy and days of our lives, then try and fit in some time on Facebook posting about how hard life is, surf the internet for a while then pretend to have had a carp day when hubby returns from his 10 hours at work.

Asking him to bathe the kids or change nappies as she is exhausted (Of course she is she been rushing between coffee shops, friends houses, day time TV, Facebook, etc etc all day).

That was my brother wife, she is long gone now, living back at her parents at 40 years of age still complaining at how hard life was.

Some blokes will wear it other won't.
 
^^ Damn Big Mick she sounds like a nightmare!

I will chip in wherever I can with the kids, the house isn't clean nor are all the chores done, but I've also looked after both my kids on my own for two weeks at a time and they are a damn handful. Get an appreciation of what it's like on both sides then meet somewhere in the middle.
 
I will side with big mick. If your wife is a stay at home mum you would reasonably expect they do most of the house chores while they are home. That's why they are staying home. If they say they don't have enough time they are talking out their arse. Stay at home mum is a pretty cushy job.
 
I will side with big mick. If your wife is a stay at home mum you would reasonably expect they do most of the house chores while they are home. That's why they are staying home. If they say they don't have enough time they are talking out their arse. Stay at home mum is a pretty cushy job.

Depends on the age of your kids, newborns are insanely hard work, I had our 8 week old for the day today and there was no way I could do shit. If I wasn't giving her my full attention she was crying, she would sleep but only if I rocked her, she has colic so every feed was followed by an hour of solid crying.

Utmost respect to my mrs who who has to put up with this 12 hours a day 6 days a week while I escape to work. Fucked if I'd swap with her.

I ain't complaining, I'm loving been a parent it's insanely rewarding, but babies are a special kind of hell at the same time.

school age kids and she's still home well unless your making heaps that's just a piss take get the bitch back to work.
 
Depends on the age of your kids, newborns are insanely hard work, I had our 8 week old for the day today and there was no way I could do shit. If I wasn't giving her my full attention she was crying, she would sleep but only if I rocked her, she has colic so every feed was followed by an hour of solid crying.

Utmost respect to my mrs who who has to put up with this 12 hours a day 6 days a week while I escape to work. Fucked if I'd swap with her.

I ain't complaining, I'm loving been a parent it's insanely rewarding, but babies are a special kind of hell at the same time.

school age kids and she's still home well unless your making heaps that's just a piss take get the bitch back to work.

Depends on the kid also.

Know a couple with a new born and she says that she is bored as. Kid just sleeps all the time.

Another couple. The kid is a pain. Just cries all the time.

Yeah I couldn't look after kids 7 days a week. Blow my brains out. I can't stand em.
 
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Depends on the kid also.

Know a couple with a new born and she says that she is bored as. Kid just sleeps all the time.

Another couple. The kid is a pain. Just cries all the time.

Yeah I couldn't look after kids 7 days a week. Blow my brains out. I can't stand em.

You reminded me of a funny story, one of my mrs friends had a baby same time as us, she kept telling my mrs how good the kid was. Sleeping through the night an all this other bullshit.

i ran into this chicks husband on a work site and asked him how everything was, he near had a meltdown about how fucked it is getting no sleep and the kid is a little monster etc.

fucking women hey, gotta admit I chuckled when the truth came out.
 
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