At Home Excercise

I don't prefer it. Mason and I have been trading off mornings at the gym so on my off mornings I've been squeezing in some work-out time while Mack naps, if Macks naps. I tried this workout, because it's been pinned and repinned.

 It's high impact, really quick and requires no equipment. It was better than I thought it was going to be. Mack kept napping so I tacked on this little arm circuit as well. I was sore the next day. Pretty good for a basement workout.
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I Pinned AND Did It: Fitness

The Mr. and I still haven’t gotten use to the whole multiple children idea. We’re four months in and admittedly floundering. I read all these articles and advice colums suggesting in order to be a Mom and not go completley postal you've got to take care of yourself first. Try returning things that brought you joy before motherhood filled your plate, they suggest. I get that, I SO get that but the time to such things has been hard to come by. The whole fitness part of my life seems to take the back seat more and more which is a far cry from where it has been placed in the past.

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But today I fought my fate and decided to employ a few pins from my fitness board. I did this one and once I completed it my baby was still sleeping so I tackled this one as well. I thought they were pretty good at home workouts. The first one was a little more cardio centered and the second more strength based. They had me sweating anyway.

Though I had to laugh at myself when I headed down to my basement with a glass of water, my phone, my kindle to guide me through the exercises and a baby monitor. I put some nursing pads in my sports bra and wore some very short shorts and hanging below said shorts were two extremely white jiggly legs I hardly recognized myself....sigh...motherhood.

A Word on Fitness

Here's what I know about fitness: You should pursue actual excercise more than you look at people's hot toned bodies on pinterest. (I know, my knowledge is impressivley extensive)
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But really, I came across this website, slimkicker, which can also be used as an app. I just signed up! It's free! It makes fitness into a game and provides great educational resources. You should check it out.

A Quick Workout

I must confess for the last few weeks I have reached a new level of motivation. The level, to which I refer, is maybe the lowest point of motivation I have ever experienced. No really, people are starting to confuse me with a sloth. Is there a more useless creature in the entire world? I don't usually have trouble with the whole “being active” aspect of life. Oh now stop it. I’m not bragging, for example, I find it incredibly exhausting to smile and wave at people, see there you go, now you are better than me. With that knowledge under your belt, can I speak honestly with you? I am one of those lucky people who genuinely enjoy exercise, if you were able to prove to me that exercise will not allow me to live a day longer I would tell you that I’d rather be running than listen to another word of your nonsense. But lately and surprisingly, I cannot get myself to move a muscle if not to stick another piece of candy corn in my mouth. Yet one day, or more correctly, every day I found myself on pinterest scrolling through the fitness section. It reminded me of how much I love to move. So, I immediately scrolled though a few more sections of pinterest and did not exercise that day, instead I sat around feeling sorry for myself. What a cute story, right? Well I guess every blog post must have a happy ending and here it is… I did exercise the next day. I was not at the point to which I could drag myself to the gym or brave the cold for a run so I did this little routine in my living room while I watched one of my all time favorite movies while baby girl was napping. I did the set five times with very little rest in between. I would not recommend this for the only fitness regime necessary, but it did the trick for the day. After I finished the sets I did do more crunches, and as I call them, bum crunches, just so I could feel I did a little more damage on the candy corn front. Then, what would you know, the next day I was feeling up to a run, and had one of those runs from which romance novels are based. The moral of the story; if you are feeling unmotivated, first of all, blame it on the winter weather, and maybe your parents and then start with a quick workout such as this one, and maybe it will domino you into a fitness affair.