Pedometer

One of the greatest and cheapest ways to monitor how much you are moving throughout the day is with a pedometer.

Here are the rules:
You must wear it!
Get a decent one...I like my walk4life pedometer
Set a step goal

Now your saying, "I take plenty of steps each day. I exercise at StrollerFit and chase my child around all day long." This may be true. Yes, you get lots of steps at StrollerFit and that is GREAT; you definitely want to accumulate steps that allow your heart to get pumping and your muscles to get stronger. We all know that planned exercise will get you lots of steps. The questions you need to ask yourself is: What are you doing the rest of the day? You will be shocked at how few steps you actually get. A pedometer is a perfect reminder that you need to move throughout your entire day! I'll tell you, I just put mine back on and here are my results for the last 3 days.

Day 1 Goal: at least 15,000 steps - 17,442
Day 2 Goal: at least 18,000 steps- 22,000 (this is a lot of steps, my feet were sore)
Day 3 Goal: 18,000 steps-- So far...it's 4:45 pm and I've taken less than 5,000.
Why so low today? 1. I didn't teach StrollerFit this morning. 2. I've sat and done a lot of computer work.

Luckily I'm going to attend a StrollerFit class tonight...I'll let you know tomorrow how many steps I get by the end of the day!

I highly recommend a pedometer. You will be finding ways to get more exercise and move more! Run around with your kids, run up and down your stairs, take a family walk after dinner! Get movin!!

Food choices for Kids...

With a child that just entered Kindergarten, I've been making lunches for the past 2 weeks. It's tough to find a balance of things to pack that are healthy AND something that your child will eat. Forget the cafeteria, the food choices are endless with most of them not being as healthy as I would like. I'll save the rant on the cafeteria food for another post.

Anyway I found a great book recently called, Eat this, not that for kids by David Zinczenko. This book is really teriffic. It breaks down typical chain restaurants and tells you what you should and should not feed your kids. It also goes through tons of items at your grocery store (with pictures) of what is good and what you should skip out on...most importantly it tells you why. :) It also breaks down food by type and what are the best picks by type of food (Italian etc) and how to make the best choices at restaurants.

It is a great guide and you feel like they are really telling you the truth because many products made by the same company can be found in both the eat this and don't eat this category!

Go take a peek!

StrollerFit and Discovery Health

The mommymuscle blog has moved to Discovery Health. Check out what franchise owners across the country are saying about StrollerFit, mommymuscle, life and being a mom!

Click on the title and the link will take you directly to the mommymuscle blog.

The Olympics...

I love the Olympics!!

My first question "How many calories does Michael Phelps GET to eat each day?" I looked it up tonight and he eats 12,000 calories a day. WOW! Can you believe that?

Check out this link to see his menu: http//www.nypost.com/seven/08132008/news/nationalnews/phelps_pig_secret__hes_boy_gorge_124248.htm

You go MOM!!

Inspired. Motivated. Role Model. Friends. Strong. Community.

These are all words that come to mind when I look at this picture. Mom’s “exercising” their right to gain and keep their mommymuscle® while pregnant. Mom’s leading the way to show other mom’s that you can exercise while having a healthy pregnancy. Moms not even knowing that they are motivating those pregnant and non-pregnant women around them to say, “if she can do it, then I can do it.” You never know the impact you may have on others.

“You go Mom.”

115 inches and counting...

You give StrollerFit moms a challenge and what do you have 8 weeks later? A group of mom's who lost 115 inches!! Yes, that's right...115 inches!!

They did this by following weekly challenges, attending StrollerFit and/or Restore the Core classes and eating a healthy diet.

Can you push-up your age? Can you hold a 3 minute plank? Can you do 200 continuous squats?

These women are AMAZING!

Dad's Do StrollerFit!!!!!

It's always great to have the whole family at StrollerFit!

Way to go dad for supporting mom, working hard and finding out what StrollerFit is all about.

Way to go mom, for getting dad to StrollerFit, encouraging exercise for the whole family and making dad sweat!


Here are some pictures of our fun!

Waiting to get started!

Warm-up

Cardio

Triceps dips