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I had the best intentions to workout today – really I did!

So what happened? 

All this week, I’ve been working out after my son’s afternoon nap – it’s difficult to workout while he’s napping because sometimes he wakes up looking for milk and sometimes he needs me to sleep beside him.  The routine was working fine until today.  We were out late and he didn’t get to sleep until 3pm.  By the time he woke up, it was 5:30pm and he had obviously gotten up on the wrong side of the bed because he yanked my DVD out of the player and told me to put Thomas in instead.

I figured that since I’d spent the morning running around the house with my son on my back while I pretended to be a train, that was pretty much my cardio done.  Then, while we were shopping, my son insisted that I carry him around because he’d forgotten how to use his legs, so that was my weight training done.  All in all, it was quite an active day for me so I guess missing out on a bit of pilates today wasn’t really that bad.

It has been my intention to get into a regular workout routine since I was deemed “fit” enough to exercise again after the delivery.  Unfortunately, for various reasons, my plans keep getting waylaid.  So to help me stay on track, I’ve joined Go Workout Mom’s Goal Call Monday to help me be accountable to my goals.  Since we’re starting back after a long leave of absence (unless you count climbing through the jungle gym), I thought I should start slow and easy. 

The plan is to do at least three 20 minute sessions using home DVDs.  Why 20 minutes?  Because I don’t think my son can keep himself entertained for longer than that, even with Thomas on the screen.  Why home DVDs?  Because no one is willing to babysit my son for me for long enough for me to get out to a gym, park, etc.  And I seriously doubt I would get much done if I had to keep an eye on him at the same time.

What’s the aim in working out?  Well, primarily, it is to get fit again.  And maybe, just maybe, build back some abs…

Before I started dating the hubby, this was how I looked:

I went climbing on most weekends, unless I had family obligations – like dinner with my brother and Dad (who was busy taking the photo you see below).  I’m dressed in climbing attire which is an indication of what I had actually planned for the day until I was summoned by my Dad.

I have to say that climbing did a lot for me in terms of trimming down my weight and gaining fitness.  I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who wants to get fit, lose weight and have fun in the process.  It doesn’t mean you’ll be able to do chin-ups or anything – I could barely complete one even at the peak of my climbing – but you’ll feel good, and isn’t that what counts?

Since climbing is pretty much out of the question these days, I’ll settle for the home workout DVDs.  Pilates and yoga are actually quite fun.  It might be interesting to observe what pilates and yoga can do for my climbing ability without any physical climbing training.  Although I’ve always maintained that the best way to get better at climbing is to climb, it would be interesting to see how well I can climb when I finally do get back into it, from just training with pilates and yoga.

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