Monday, January 30, 2012

A Mom's Workout

For anyone who knows me personally, I LOVE to work out and always have. Even during pregnancy, I stayed extremely active with walking, pregnancy yoga and pilates, and modified weight lifting. Once Jude was born, I continued to walk/jog, lift weights, and get back into my "before baby" body. Fortunately, my weight came off really easily (I think breast feeding helped this) and though my body is definitely different now in some ways, I weigh less than before I got pregnant. I'm sure this is because I don't have as much muscle.

With that said, I know that though looking good is a great incentive to work out, being healthy is most important. Though I LOVE my 4 day work week, working 10 hours a day Monday-Thursday really limits my time to work out during the week. We still walk/jog almost always daily simply because Jude and Mason love it, so I feel that my cardio has been maintained. However, I want to get back into more weights and kinesthetics. Through some research and the help of Pinterest, I have developed a new little work out that I started about a week ago and I've been really happy with it. My heart rate definitely gets up and my shoulders have gotten sore. (This is only a "beginners" work out, so I hope to add more things to it, but on a limited budget, aka no gym membership, and limited time, aka, this takes about 20 minutes, I feel this has great potential for maintenance purposes.) If you decide to try it, let me know. :)

Repeat this cycle 3 times:

-30 jumping jacks
-5 pushups
-25 high knees
-20 mt. climbers
-5 pushups
-10 regular squats
-15 crunches
-5 pushups
-15 crunches
-10 "toes out" squats
-30 jumping jacks
-20 lunges
-5 push ups
-25 high knees
-25 bicycle crunches

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