The Dadvantage: A Blueprint for New Fathers to Stay in Shape on No Sleep, with No Time and No Equipment

by Jon Finkel

From veteran fitness writer (GQ, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness) and the co-host of The Life of Dad podcast (600k downloads) and the Lunch Break Facebook Live Show (1M viewers), author Jon Finkel applies the same humor and logic he made popular in his national magazine columns to prove to men that being in shape and fatherhood aren't mutually exclusive. Relying on his first-hand experience as a dad and his time as a writer for the world’s largest fitness publications, The Dadvantage is as much a real-world guide for men to follow about how to make wise health decisions post-baby as it is a playbook for men to maximize their minutes during the craziest time of their lives. The book is divided into four fast chapters: Chapter Stop the Dad Bod Before It Starts Chapter Exercise While Exhausted Chapter Yeah Baby - The Unconventional Fitness Guide Chapter The Simplest New Dad Diet That Guarantees Weight Loss Chapters I and II of the book reveal why the mainstream expectations put on new fathers to set their health aside for the good of their wife and child is ridiculous, why men shouldn't feel guilty about taking care of themselves and how every guy absolutely has the time in his existing schedule to perform some practical, easy exercises throughout the day to stay in shape. Chapters III and IV take a unique look at how new dads can use the simple things around them to fit in short, one or two minute workouts. Exercises like "Car Seat Curls", "Baby Bjorn Lunges" and "Mailbox Intervals" transform everyday dad activities into calorie burners and muscle builders. The final chapter shows men how simple, subtle meal changes can have lasting and impressive effects on their diet and physique with minimal effort. The fact is, most men will probably gain weight during their wife’s pregnancy. We don’t want to, but we will. I did. Unfortunately, guys don't have access to the one-day miracle weight loss plan that women utilize called giving birth. One minute, a woman is bursting at the seams with child, the next minute; she's 15 pounds lighter. Three months later, she's 30 pounds lighter. For men, what was once affectionately called "sympathy weight" is now referred to as "being fat". Once a guy is fat for a certain amount of time, he has officially "let himself go". And once he's "let himself go", it's not easy to get himself back. Scroll up, click the BUY button and start reading right now.

60 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 23, 2012

About the author

Jon Finkel is the award-winning author of 1996: A Biography, Hoops Heist, The Life of Dad, Jocks In Chief, The Athlete, Heart Over Height, “Mean” Joe Greene and more. His books have been endorsed by everyone from Mark Cuban and Tony Dungy to Spike Lee, Kevin Durant and Chef Robert Irvine.

He has written for GQ, Men’s Health, Yahoo! Sports, The New York Times and has appeared on CBS: This Morning, Good Morning Texas, and hundreds of radio shows, podcasts and streams. Jon was recently profiled in The New Yorker about the awesome community he’s built around his Books & Biceps newsletter. They describe him as “a gym rat’s Reese Witherspoon”.

His upcoming biography, Macho Man: The Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage, comes out Spring 2024.