The Six Pack Dad Tribe

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

Many busy professional dads are frustrated by the fact that most of their fat seems to collect in the belly, and they don’t know why.

This article is here to change that.

To understand belly fat, you first need to understand that not all fat is the same. There’s subcutaneous fat: the softer, pinchable fat stored just under the skin and distributed across the body. This fat is considered healthy. And then there’s visceral fat: a deeper, more metabolically active fat stored around your internal organs that causes the abdomen to protrude and is associated with chronic disease. Not healthy.

Where your body stores fat isn’t random; it’s a reflection of your lifestyle. In healthy lifestyle conditions, body fat is distributed more evenly as subcutaneous fat. But under unhealthy conditions, fat storage tends to shift toward the visceral/abdominal area, creating the classic “beer belly” look.

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^{Written by Kris Einboden, GM and Professsional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe}

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Intermittent fasting (IF) is a game-changer for busy professional dads. Most diet advice adds more to your plate when it’s already full. Fasting does the opposite. It cuts down the decisions you have to make every day, which is huge for someone who already makes thousands of decisions each day.

Here are some of the key benefits of intermittent fasting:

• Enhanced Cognitive Function: Many of our executive clients report enhanced morning energy and focus after making the switch to IF, which is a huge benefit for those with highly stressful, demanding careers.
• Accelerated Fat Loss: By cutting out heavy breakfasts, mid-morning snacks, and late-night junk, you naturally lower your overall calorie intake and lose fat without having to do special diets or obsess over every calorie. 
• Improved Metabolic Flexibility: If you eat every time hunger strikes, you never give your
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_{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

There is so much fluff in the fitness industry.

Let me help you cut through it and understand what really matters for most people who want to get healthier, and feel/look better based on my experience working with hundreds of real people with real lives. 

Here are the 11 most important things to understand if you want to improve your health in a sustainable way:

1. Nutrition is not complicated, just hard in practice.

Most people understand what is a healthy and what is not. And while there are details to nutrition that everyone could learn, the lack of information isn’t most people's problem. The problem people have is eating well at 9pm after a stressful day, or at a business dinner, or when your kid has a soccer game and dinner is a drive-thru. Nutrition fails in execution, not education. In other words, most people have an implementation problem, not an information problem.

2. Most supplements are ei...