working out with kids

How old are your kids? I have a baby and a toddler, so if I'm going to exercise on the weekends one of them is with me. We either jog with a stroller or the toddler comes along for a long bike ride in the ibert.

My husband and I also run through a 7-8 minute cardio/strength workout in our living room using a chair and a wall. The baby loves to watch us, and the toddler like to try the activities. They were posted on the nytimes: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/. It's definitely not like going to the gym, but it's a good quick whole body workout, especially if you do it twice!

Good luck! If I don't get in a bike or a run weekends are much harder for me too, as I can never make it to the gym.

I have a two year old and I do turbo fire in my living room.... Such a killer cardio workout and she somehow likes to watch.... Usually she's a crazy person!

I do videos and let my nephews join in One is 16 months old and does squats with me =p

If you do one with dancing I bet they'll have fun with that, I also don't think it hurts for them to learn good habits like exercise!

wii fit, zumba on the xbox, bike rides (one in the ibert and one on his own bike), walking to school & back (1.5 mile round trip), jogging with stroller, 100 pushups app on my phone. These are all things I do with my kids around, 2 boys ages 4 & 9. Gonna be sad when little guy is too big for the ibert, it's gonna be soon too.
My 4 year old loves to do yoga with me when I do it on the wii fit. My older son loves bike riding, so we try to do that a couple times a week.

Depends how old your kids are. We do the walk/run/bike thing too.

We:
- play soccer
- go to the pool (dragging kids around is definitely a workout!)
- play tag
- go hiking
- we have a Cosmic Adventure here. Going in the tunnels with the kdis is a workout and a half.
- they sometimes like to join along in doing exercise videos
- things like wii fit and dance dance revolution, that sort of game is fun to do together.

Just go play!

I teach a Kindy Sport class at work to 2-5 year olds - in one hour I burn around 400 calories!
We do things like
- warm up - march, skip, high step, tip-toes, heel-walk, sashay etc
- stretches
- chasey
- ball skills - simple catch, throw, kick. Can play "keep-it-up" with balloons.
- if you have a smooth floor, sit on your butt and scoot backwards using hands and feet. Or scoot forwards pedalling with your feet (don't use hands)
- jump like a frog, squatting with hands on the floor
- jump like a kangaroo, standing with knees bent
- hop, make sure you try both legs
- hinge forward at the waist and walk with straight legs and hands on the floor
- walk stifflegged, like a penguin
- crawl/squirm on the ground like a slug, keeping stomach to the floor
- roll sideways like a log
- lie on your back, lift yourself onto hands and feet, and walk like a crab.
- run around flapping your arms like a bird
- basic bodyweight exercises - on hands on knees, get kids to touch the ground with their nose (push-ups), lie on their back and touch their knees (sit-ups), lift one or both legs in the air lying down, or sitting up a little. Lie on back, legs in the air and cycle, or open and close forward and back like scissors, or clap with their calves.
- starjumps

etc etc...

Fitness Blender on YouTube has tons of exercises to choose from. As short as 10 min to as long as over an hour.