Fitness with a toddler

rabt6f

I am a proud parent of a 2 year old little girl who loves to interrupt anything I try to do. My work schedule is changing soon and I will have to exercise with her in the room now in order to get exercise in and not deprive myself of needed sleep. We started trying it this week. I'm working my way through Supreme 90 (similar to P 90x) with hopes of moving on to insanity (which I just got of ebay for $40!). However I've noticed I frequently have to pause the DVD to change a diaper, clean up a spill, make sure my little super hero doesn't jump down a flight of stairs, or climb the Christmas tree. Tonight, during a 30 minute DVD I had to stop 2 times, once to change a dirty diaper (1 1/2 minutes probably), and once to get her plate out of the fridge (3 minutes), and almost had to stop a 3rd time to get her more food (thank fully I grabbed some during the 30 second cool down).

Is it really worth exercising to make all these random stops? I'm wondering if I'm going to even benefit as I know I'm not concentrating like I want to. Hell, I was trying to do planks while she was trying to feed me pretend tea from a tea cup. It's not easy having a toddler! Anyone else have to stop during the DVD's and still seeing progress?

ingeh

Iv got a 19month old boy and a 5 week old and trying to work out! Iv managed 15 mins since youngest was born lol
I put childrens tv on for them and oldest will watch a show for a while and youngest naps alot so its ok right now. Im starting again today. Maybe give your girl a toy or tv show she likes and see if it distracts her?