I’m back to share some fitness tips for busy moms today. SO many of us are juggling work, kids, life, and it can feel overwhelming. You’re not alone.
Hi friends! How’s the week treating ya? I have 1:1 client calls all day today and am excited to meet up with a friend for a morning workout.
For today’s post, I wanted to put together a roundup of tips for my busy mom friends out there. I know that my mama friends have to think about so many things and juggle a variety of tasks throughout the week, and it can be hard for moms to focus on their own self-care, fitness goals, and staying fit.
In today’s post, I’m sharing some practical tips on how to make fitness a part of life despite busy schedules. Remember, even if you can just take 20 minutes out of your day, it will make a difference.
Fitness Tips For Busy Moms
Wake up early… if you can
For my friends out there who can be early birds, this is your time to shine. For all of my friends who are fellow night owls, this one may not work so well. This also may not work if your sleep quality is terrible, or you’re up frequently throughout the night feeding, changing diapers, or comforting from bad dreams. I’m a big believer that sleep ALWAYS wins. If you’re exhausted, take the time to rest and recover. If you try to power though a workout (particularly something like high intensity interval training), it’s only going to spike your cortisol, make you feel more stressed, and chances are that you won’t have a great workout, anyway.
And if you’re sleeping well throughout the night and enjoy making time for fitness in the am, set your alarm before the kids are awake. It can be pretty amazing to crush your workout early in the morning before the crew is up and get your heart rate up.
Break up your workouts
Don’t be afraid to split up your workouts into multiple time blocks throughout the day. Before I had kids, I had a mentality that if it wasn’t an hour long, full-body workout that left me sweating from my eyeballs, it didn’t count. Little bits of movement throughout the day absolutely add up. You could split your workout into 10-minute blocks: 10 minutes of strength training, 10 minutes of cardio, 10 minutes of core work and stretching for 30 minutes of total exercise time.
I share more ideas on how to do this in this post. It’s also important to note here that overall daily movement is HUGE and it’s a pretty active time of life when you’re chasing a crawling toddler around the house all day.
Stay flexible
Something that helped me dramatically in ALL aspects of child raising: drop your expectations. If you have high expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. I went into each walk with the stroller knowing it could either last an hour, or 5 minutes. I was mentally re