After pregnancy and childbirth, many people have a passionate desire to drop everything and do sports. Some want to get back into their old shape, while others miss the gym for pep.

Being pregnant and wanting my labor to go the best way possible, I did fitness and yoga for pregnant women and went to the pool. This helped me not only to feel good, but also to always be in good spirits. Even today sport is an opportunity for me to be cheerful and cheerful. After all, it’s no secret that sport is the surest way to get the joy hormone.

But a passionate desire to do sports is not enough. The most acute becomes the question of time, which is not and, as it seems, is not expected. So, what can be done about it? How to do sports mom with children, household and husband? How do you find those precious minutes? In this situation, I personally see several options.

Training in the gym, swimming pool or dance class

The first and most obvious option. Two or three times a week is best. You leave the baby for daddy and go to create a flying and athletic mom.

• The pros are socialization and a change of scenery. In the conditions of maternity leave it can not be neglected, and the coach as an overseer – a good motivator for many.
• Minuses – it’s not always possible to leave the baby, add to that the cost of sports training, equipment (if any) and travel time.

In my case, until my daughter was six months old, this option was stressful for me, for the baby and for my husband. I spent the whole training just worrying, wondering how they were doing without me, and when I came, I immediately grabbed the baby in my arms and calmed her down, then calmed my husband down. Now that my daughter is eight, it’s much easier for her to stay with daddy, especially if they’re out for a walk in a baby carrier.

Training at home

The second option I consider my successful invention, which I use when there is no possibility to go to a workout. I work out at home using the fly method. For convenience, I divided my session, which is about 45 minutes to an hour, into four stages:

• warm-up,
• upper body strength training,
• lower body strength training,
• stretching.

I do these phases as much as possible. That is, when the baby plays by herself or when she sleeps, I do warm-up exercises – waving my arms, twisting my neck, kneading joints and so on. If I am lucky, I do two or even more stages at once. As time allows, I perform the rest of my exercises. The exercises I include in it are determined by what I want to work on and what is most relevant for me. For example, now I have a whole group of exercises for the abs in my arsenal.