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@StuLoren 💪 awesome

Session 15… Not bad for starting later than I wanted to. 1-2 weeks and I’ll add back strength training. Getting fit again with little kids is not easy, but if I can do it so can you. The world feels messed up. We all should try to be the best versions of ourselves.

@mattlindner 💪

Now THAT is how you start a Saturday.

@DanButtersChi Amazing story - no better time to start then now!

I was sitting in the gym this morning thinking about all the reasons I didn’t want to be there. It was pretty empty, except for a handful of people I recognized as joining in the new year. I go at off hours, so it’s never busy and I always enjoy seeing new people get started. Sitting there on the turf, staring at a kettlebell and thinking about everything but getting started - I thought about I’m going to do for St Patrick’s Day. Then I thought about how I looked on St Patrick’s Day 15 or so years ago, at about 450 lbs and a walking cardiac event. I thought about why I accepted that for so long? What took me so long to get started? And I got pissed off and started my workout. Then the clarity hit me: It didn’t fucking matter why I didn’t start sooner. I eventually did. If you set a resolution, to lose weight, to start a business, or learn a new skill and you haven’t started… No one is going to look at you on New Year’s Eve and ask why you waited until January 24th. Get after it. Especially today. If you can do it on the coldest day of the year you can do it every fucking day and you owe that to yourself.

@TheRealDtox @WaddleandSilvy @SashaAnnSimons @weatherchannel @BlockClubCHI @KyleBrandt @KCJHoop @pattomasulo @WGNMorningNews Absolute Unit right here! You should check out @F3Chicago. They have free outdoor workouts all year round (including winter!) for impressive (insane?) people like you!

F3 Chicago says GO BEARS!!🐻 #GoodBetterBest @F3Nation @ChicagoBears

Three strong in the gloom at Dip City in Chicago @F3Nation

@StuLoren This is awesome. If you want to get fit and find community at the same time come check out F3! Always free and always outdoors (even in Chicago winters 🥶)

Plan to share my workout stats as a form of self-accountability and hopefully positive influence. Being a dad is awesome, but having kids - especially one who slept horribly for years - was not conducive to personal health. If a bum like me can get back into shape, you can too! Goals at this stage in life are a bit different than 15 years ago: 1) Improve general health 2) Prevent injury 3) Rebuild functional fitness (and some strength) 4) Challenge myself 5) Make sure I can beat my kids in sports for at least another 10 years 5) Increase mental sharpness 6) Reduce stress 7) If/when I lose my hair, pull off the aerodynamic look… 8) Remain a viable last round pick in the MLB draft. I particularly want to generate some positive vibes for all the younger (and/or future) parents out there who may be following me. Having kids is great, but - at least for me - the first few years were a massive disruption to my ability to maintain any sort of reliable fitness routine (or really routine of any kind). If you’re in that boat, don’t despair! You will eventually get your energy back. And if you can carve out the time and energy for personal health while your kids are little, you’re already FAR ahead of where I was.

5 strong at Zoo Crew today

@F3Chicago @BenJohnsonBears @ChicagoBears @F3Nation That's hardcore, gentlemen! Good work!

The men of F3 Chicago channeling our inner @BenJohnsonBears this past Saturday! Open to all men (even Packers fans) @ChicagoBears @F3Nation

We did a thing today.... @F3Chicago had 6 PAX ruck the entire Lakefront Trail (18.5 miles). My feet are sore but what a day to do something hard!

@Dcpcooks Come check out F3 - free outdoor workouts for men. f3near.me/nearby

Ordered a full set of kettle balls Time to get back strong at 61

@ChiTown_A Hard agree 💪

Get in shape. It is the best investment you can make.

@BrennanWoodruff Lake Shore Park 5:30am tomorrow! Or 2001 N Clark Saturday 7am. Hope to see you there

@F3Chicago Fine I will come to one, and make bad dad jokes, and you will be forced to laugh!

The cure for male loneliness is sending savage content back and forth via DM with no interaction but to like them.

@BrennanWoodruff True! But we do get some chuckles in during our workouts :-)

@F3Chicago fine, but that's not as funny!

@mattlindner Yup - come work out with us sometime f3chicago.com

The thing about getting your workout in before the sun is up is like yeah you’ve gotta get out of bed and that sucks but then it’s just DONE.

@timnicodemus @LeighGiangreco Yup 💪

@LeighGiangreco For the fellas: @F3Chicago -- always free and always outside (even in the winter!)

Chicago! Where are the best outdoor workout classes? Extra points if they’re on the lake (extra extra points for free classes)

@chicagobars Us too - we like our exercise outdoors, rain or shine, free and open to all men. Come check us out

I don’t believe in going to a gym to exercise. But if I did a gym that saved a good looking vintage building like that is where I’d go.