Working Out Postpartum

I love to set minor goals too! One of my first ones was just to be able to workout for my 30 mins a day without interruptions - i get up at 4:30 am everyday because it gives me extra time while my infant still sleeps and so does my 2 yr old. Then it was 30 mins for the entire 7 days a week (I workout from home which just makes it more convenient I don't need a sitter or to go anywhere, just my living room). I constantly have reminders tacked up about where i want to be - not so much how long it'll take me - but all of the positive motivation i need!! I made a fitness inspiration board to help me keep track of my progress.

I work out at home for 30 minutes a day, 7 days a week. I was able to return to exercise so quickly because I exercised throughout my pregnancy, up until my son was born I lifted that morning the day he was born at 9:30 pm haha. I think I'm a bit of a fanatic. My workouts compose a 21 day schedule, so I've done this particular workout 3 times so far and have lost 24 lbs with this pregnancy in just under 10 weeks. It's a mix of cardio with weights and simple weight lifting techniques at a faster pace. It's awesome i am so addicted I'm doing it again now - i started it today to see where i'll be in 3 weeks to begin something new!!

With my first pregnancy I didn't start working out til my daughter was a year old and I went back to my roots and lifted weights 4 days a week and did a mix of cardio and plyometrics on the others. I took off the baby weight from then in about 12-13 weeks or 3 months. I enjoyed every minute of it!!!

I really have to say a key role in getting so quickly back into shape this time around had to be my nutrition!! You can't out train a bad diet!

brooklynette wrote: »

Hey there! Kind of inspiring! I've got a 10 month old and a 3 year old and I'm just now finding a routine that works and trying to get into a groove. I've got 30 lbs to lose, which I racked up over the course of 4.5 years of fertility treatments and pregnancies. I thought I would do what I always do and run it off. But at age 41, and after these kids, Im finding that I need a more well rounded work out to keep injury free. I am doing crossfit 3 days/ week (because there is one on the next block) and I bike to work almost every day (1/2 hour each way). My diet is generally healthy and well intentioned, but I can really go off the rails with snacking and night eating. We have family sit down dinners but it's so chaotic getting everyone fed that I don't really get to finish my own meal. Then I think I can eat after the kids are in bed, but I just end up snacking and over doing it. So I'm being diligent about tracking and just discovering how much I'm over eating. Yikes. So let me focus my mini goals on turning the tracking into a habit, getting to my workout 3x week.

a rule of thumb i use is to refrain from eating anything at least 2-3 hrs before bed, especially things like carbs or fruits - the complex sugars burn up quick with activity but tend to sit with lack thereof (like sleeping). hope that helps!