I wrote a guest post on this topic over on The Stoker Kitchen a few weeks ago and wanted to revisit with a little more detail. I love that Brent and Tessa are close in age, we love that they grow and play together, however, having a child at age 30 and 31 was hard on my body and it’s been difficult to recover my previous level of fitness (basically every mom relates to this!) I absolutely loved Treehouse Athletic Club when we lived in Utah and felt it was worth every cent to have awesome equipment, classes, lots of space and most importantly, a great child care. The kids and I were there every morning except Sundays. Here in Austin, we are back at 24 Hour Fitness – this location is pretty crappy but they do have childcare which was basically my only requirement. Joining a gym with child care has been the number 1 thing that has helped me get back ‘in shape’ after having kids.
In the times, I’m not at the gym or outside exercising, these have been awesome to do in the house, no equipment necessary.
I like to do 10-15 reps and 3-4 sets depending on the difficulty of the exercise OR 30 seconds of an exercise and then 30 seconds rest, repeat until exhaustion 😉 The nice thing is these can be done anytime and even if you only have 10 minutes.
Ab and core exercises:
- Crunches
- Bicycle crunches
- Reverse crunches
- Leg lifts
- Plank
- Side plank
- Side plank crunch
- Plank step out
- Plank shoulder touch
- Walking plank
- Bird dog
- Glute bridge/hip raise
- Single leg hip raise
- Split leg (jack knife) sit ups
Lower body exercises:
- Squats
- Stationary lunges
- Curtsy lunge
- Calf raises
- Standing single leg lift
- wall sit
Upper body exercises:
Pushups, Spiderman pushups
Whole body exercises:
- Burpees
- Surrenders
- Windmills
- Mountain Climbers
- Jumping Jacks
- Squat jumps
- Inch Worm
My top 10 ab/core exercises here
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Jen Holtkamp 