{"id":63802,"date":"2012-01-27T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=63802"},"modified":"2012-01-27T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:37:12","slug":"home-workouts-for-dads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/home-workouts-for-dads\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Workouts for Dads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stay-at-home dads want to stay fit, just as their female counterparts do. One dad, in particular, Gavin McInnes, solves this problem by creating a video that gives you ideas about<strong> <a title=\"Get Fit for Free with Home Workouts: Yoga and Pilates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/get-fit-for-free-with-home-workouts-yoga-and-pilates\/\">workouts<\/a><\/strong> that you can do right in your own home, with \u201cequipment\u201d found around the house.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/keWCS942iFM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>McInnes keeps the workout interesting and funny by getting creative with his choice of \u201cequipment.\u201d This video was originally shot in 2026. McInnes used his children, now 5-year-old\u00a0daughter Sophie Whiterabbit\u00a0and now 3-year-old\u00a0son Duncan Whitethunder, as the \u201cequipment\u201d or weights.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This hilarious, but informative workout features McInnes using his kids to perform toddler lifts, baby curls, baby <strong><a title=\"Are Crunches and Sit-Ups Dangerous?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/are-crunches-and-sit-ups-dangerous\/\">situps<\/a><\/strong>, toddler pushups and toddler bench presses. The children seemed pretty excited to assist him in his quest to maintain his \u201chot body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I hear one more person ask how I got my body so amazing, I am going to pop an artery,\u201d said McInnes as to why he produced the video.\u201d He goes on to say that,\u201d It\u2019s simple people, burn more calories than you take in. Don&#8217;t have time to go to the gym? Easy peasy. Use objects found around the home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/home-workouts-for-dads\/stayathomedadworkouts\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63811\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63811\" title=\"stayathomedadworkouts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/stayathomedadworkouts.jpg\" alt=\"Home Workouts for Dads\" width=\"480\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/stayathomedadworkouts.jpg 480w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/stayathomedadworkouts-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the video, McInnes offers tips for choosing the proper <strong><a title=\"Free Weights vs. Machine Weights\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/free-weights-vs-machine-weights\/\">weights<\/a><\/strong> to coincide with the exercise that you are performing. For instance, when doing bicep curls, he stressed that a 10-pound weight would be better to start with than a 30- or 40-pound weight. Baby Duncan just happened to fit the bill of a 10-pound weight and proves perfect to use for baby bicep curls.<\/p>\n<p>Toddler Sophie proved to be just the right weight when McInnes attempted toddler pushups, even if he had a hard time completing the set.<\/p>\n<p>Even though McInnes shows that he is knowledgeable in his reference to muscles and how to work them out properly, he doesn\u2019t miss a chance to throw out some side-splitting anecdotes that refer to the \u201cequipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video is entertaining and informative and the kids are adorable. So don\u2019t allow not being able to get to a gym stop you from getting your own body into shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay-at-home dads want to stay fit, just as their female counterparts do. One dad, in particular, Gavin McInnes, solves this problem by creating a video that gives you ideas about workouts that you can do right in your own home, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/home-workouts-for-dads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,93],"tags":[4848,9395,9396],"class_list":["post-63802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-mens-health","tag-exercise","tag-workout-at-home","tag-workout-for-men"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63802"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63816,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63802\/revisions\/63816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}