This should hopefully be a place for people to share their experience about training as a parent. I’m particularly interested to hear from anyone who has managed to train with a newborn. I noticed a few Facebook posts on the topic recently and I became a dad for the second time this past Monday. A…

[image] KickrLin: Things will get easier as the kid(s) get older. There will still be issues/problems, but they will be different ones. Father of twins here as well. Mine are 3,5 years old. When they were 2yo things got easier… for a while, until they decided to skip the 1,5-2h nap after lunc…

I have the exact same experience. I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old. Fitting in training wasn’t too bad because I could get a ride in after they went to bed during the week and then a longer outside ride during naptime on weekends. Now that naps are more sporadic on weekends it gets tough to get …

Newborn parent here, was doing about 5-8hrs of training prior to birth, have taken a week off before I start my time crunch 30 mid vol, just come off the back of SSB low vol, so going to miss those 90min workouts. I’m hoping to maintain as much fitness as possible. Looking forward to the short but b…

Our eldest was sleeping through the night from 7 weeks, youngest from about 13 weeks. Of course there was the odd wake up here and there, but for the most part we worked hard to get them to self settle. Short term pain for long term gain. We also totally avoided pacifiers. They are 6 & 7 now and sti…

Trying to build up a bit before the long taper when our second girl is born. Getting after a base cycle with AT and hoping that TrainNow when I can squeeze it in will help extend my fitness through the dark year. It will be interesting to see how things progress this time around. Totally dropped off…

Here is my experience from my first child (currently a 6month old). ‘Fitness’ screenshot from intervals.icu [Screen Shot 2021-07-09 at 3.25.45 PM] I trained about 10hpw for the year prior to the birth. This included a 4hr long ride with some efforts every Saturday. I knew I would be time constra…

I really like this approach to focus on improving short power when the option for long rides disappears. Game-ify it by finding some appropriate Strava segments to slay. :metal:

Some of the short workouts in Time Crunch 30 are killers, but totally doable back to back (days) due to the shorter interval/overall workout time. FTP hasn’t gone down much at all (6w) but sweet spot endurance needs a bit of help now. Our little man sleeps pretty well, getting about 6+ hours of brok…

Oh my. The difference between baby one and two has been startling. Although baby 2 sleeps better, baby one (now 20 months) has just started nursery and passes on a cold every couple of weeks to my wife and I and we not getting enough sleep to fight off these little bugs. Throw in a house move and t…

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Lots of good responses here as well Bike/life balance

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