My Journey - Super Fit Dad

I’m Ben Ford – 37 year old Dad to Drake – a 2 year old boy – and Derek – a 6 year old dog.

Here we are. Good looking bunch, huh?

I believe life should be simple, but, after the birth of my son, I found out the hard way that it’s not. Something that should have been the best thing in my life became a cause of extreme stress and I paid the ultimate price.

Worse still, so did my family.

I had pretty much everything you could ask for: a beautiful, effervescent wife; a show-stopping baby, a mischievous dog, a house in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and a combined income in excess of $300k per year.

So why was I so unhappy?

Acknowledging that things weren’t perfect would have been an act of weakness so instead of dealing with the problem, it festered like a poisonous potion until it was too late.

I’ve spent much of the last year rebuilding myself from the inside out. My building blocks have been:

Distracting myself with exercise
Cleaning up my diet
Cutting out alcohol during the week
Personal and business mentoring
Joining elite fitness communities
Reading and listening to personal development material
Becoming certified in various fitness disciplines

It was to this end that Super Fit Dad was born – an accountability check for me and a place to share some of my methods, successes and failures with other time-poor fathers.

If my failures and mistakes can help one other Dad avoid the same pitfalls then this exercise will have been a success.