As a mom, I know how challenging it is to fit everything into a single 16 hour day and squeezing in a workout can seem as likely as conquering Mount Everest. We’ve learned to be quite creative when it comes to taking care of our family and keeping our house in order, but we seldom work ourselves into the equation. While pondering this dilemma one day, I experienced a multi-tasking epiphany. It dawned on me that I could, in fact, get in a workout and spend some quality time with my girls at the same time. We had so much fun making this video. And let me tell you, I was sore for 3 days!
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Mommy Workout
Barefoot Running Frenzy
I recently started reading Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall. From the moment I dove into this book I’ve been itching to get out for a trail run. I read about how the greatest runners in the world run for the love of it; for “sheer joy.” McDougall describes running as “…mankind’s first art, our original act of inspired creation…combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.” Who wouldn’t want to run after reading that?
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Set a Goal and Achieve It
Many of us have set goals but failed, in one way or another, to meet them. It is high time you succeed in achieving exactly what you set out to do. Here are three simple steps to make it happen.
Become a Multi-Sport Athlete
A triathletes’ extraordinary fitness is a direct result of their diversified training regimen. But what if your “big race” is a tennis match and not a triathlon? Can your three sports be tennis, yoga, and weight training? I am suggesting that we borrow the term “triathlete” to describe one who trains in any three disciplines and, by this definition, that we all become triathletes.
