My name is Jason Smith, I am the Busy Dads’ Fitness & Fat Loss Specialist, and owner of the Only Mens’ Fitness Bootcamp in Cyprus. But years ago things were very different…

I used to go out running for at least an hour a day, and perform long resistance workouts – sometimes doing up to 12 different weights exercises in one session. I really thought this was what I had to do to build muscle & lose fat – after all isn’t that what all the other guys are doing?

Then, after having 4 wonderful children and starting my own business, I gradually found less and less time to get my workouts done. To be honest, my training slipped and I stopped taking it seriously.

I used having ‘no time’ as an excuse. And since I wasn’t seeing any good body-transforming results anyway, it was quite easy to fall off the exercise wagon.

Then, one day – I came across a picture of me with one of my kids and was disgusted at the way I had let myself go. I had lost all my muscle tone, and gained a tire of stubborn fat around my midsection. Something snapped in my mind at that instant, and I realized I needed to get back into great shape not just for me, but to be the role model for my kids that any serious father should be.

We all know that our children learn from our actions every day, and since I have 4 boys I didn’t want them to grow up seeing their dad being out of shape and making excuses for why he wasn’t (and also, I couldn’t bring myself to blame my kids as the reason I didn’t have time to train & eat well).

I studied all…