My Next Fitness Goal - Carry my Wife

Most people’s health goals involve some sort of number. Weigh less than this number. Get cholesterol under that number. Lift more weight. Run this far under that time.

Heck, I even did it back in 2021 with my post on Setting my Fitness Goals.

For awhile, I’ve had a simple goal of continuing to be able to carry both my kids - who now are 6 and 8 and weigh about 60lbs and 80lbs - at the same time.

But I thought it would be fun to not only be able to carry both my kids - but also my wife!

Picking someone up isn’t simple, though. There’s at least three ways to pick someone up:

• Bridal carry
• Fireman’s carry
• Piggy back

Bridal carry is definitely the most romantic. Fireman’s carry is probably the most uncomfortable for her, although the easiest for me (if I want to travel long-distance, at least). Check out this WikiHow for details on the first two.

There’s another way that I have managed to carry her - her facing me, with my hands and arms supporting her underneath her butt. I’ve also found it’s taken some getting used to on her side. My kids are used to being carried, so they mostly know what to when being carried. Given my wife hasn’t been carried since she was a little girl, at first she wasn’t sure what to do while being carried.

She does laugh while being carried, though, and loves the idea of this fitness goal!