The Six Pack Dad Tribe

_{Written By Kris Einboden, GM and Professional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe}

We’ve worked with 300+ busy professional dads, and one of the most common things our guys struggle with is late-night snacking.

Why?

Because for many guys, it’s a coping mechanism for stress. 

Being a busy professional dad comes with a unique set of challenges. From sun up to sun down, you are going at full speed. Managing work responsibilities on top of family responsibilities is basically two full time jobs. The only time you get to relax is late at night when the kids are in bed. You stay up late to cherish this quiet time and nothing feels better than enjoying a tasty treat or snack with that. Late night snacking solves one problem (the stress from your day) but creates a whole new problem: weight gain and poor health. 

If late night snacking is standing between you and your health goals, here are four proven strategies we use to help our clients break the cycle of late-night snacking:

1. Start W...

Written By Kris Einboden, GM and Professional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe

We recently ran two LinkedIn polls.

The first asked: Is processed food healthy? The second asked people to choose which was least healthy: soda, pastries, red meat, or processed food in general. In both polls, a majority of people pointed to processed food as the problem.

While it's true that many highly processed foods are easy to overconsume and provide little nutritional value, I think this reveals a much bigger problem: we've started labeling foods as simply "good" or "bad." At The Six Pack Dad Tribe, we teach a different approach, and I want to share that with you today.

Food Exists on a Spectrum

One of the biggest mistakes people make is believing that every food falls into one of two categories:

• Healthy = unprocessed = good
• Unhealthy = processed = bad

Nutrition simply doesn't work that way. Instead, food exists on a spectrum: from foods you should eat frequently, to foods you should eat ...

Written By Kris Einboden, GM and Professional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe

One of the most common objections we hear when someone considers investing in our services is:

“Why would I pay for online coaching when I could hire a personal trainer for about the same amount?”

It’s a reasonable question, and, at face value, it makes sense to think that in person training would be more valuable. As a former personal trainer myself, I can say firsthand that personal training provides tremendous value if your goal is to learn how to exercise, improve their technique, stay accountable to your workouts, or build muscle and strength. But if your primary goal is fat loss, personal training may not be the best investment because more exercise isn't going to adress the root cause of your problem. 

Fat loss is primarily a nutrition problem, not an exercise problem. 

I didn't fully understand how important this distinction was until I experienced it firsthand.

While working as a personal train...