Dare I Call This a Fitness Post?

So I joined a new fitness center that is less SAHM and more Balla' and I like it so much more...even if their weight room is crummy.  On top of that, yay child care. I always try to pretend like I am not a child care snob, but let's be honest, I am a child care snob. The gym I joined last summer made me feel like Wyatt was just an ant in a big ol pile of swarming children and if he wasn't crying the loudest nobody would notice him.  I mean of course they would keep him alive but I shouldn't expect more than that.  This one has much fewer people, and the same 2 people staffing it, and they seem to know the kids names and it just gives me a much warmer fuzzier feeling.

So anyways, I am allowed to take them for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon.  That is a lot of hours!! So far we have made it 10 minutes without being paged for a crying baby girl that is very fond of her mother.  The child care lady said I should just take her every day so that pretty much means I could be the fittest ever. Or I can do a 10 minute workout every day.  That is so worth the amount of time it takes me to load them up and pack their stuff up.

I have visions of lap pools and playin pick up basketball and other fun child free activities. I have a dream....

Until then....this cracks me up

A Fitness Post

So since I got pregnant, I pretty much quit jogging.  See high heart rate.   Oh, and excessive tiredness that causes me to sit on the couch and go to bed as early as possible.  I am still doing some stroller walks, but mostly Wyatt and I just go on a bike ride every day.  Soon my belly will get too big and we won't know what to dooooo. 

But anyways, a mama in my mama group was selling a fundraiser pass I just couldn't pass up.  $30 for a 3 month gym membership with child care. Oh, and the child care is at least acceptable because my mamas group takes their kids there. 

I am hoping to go 2 to 3 times a week.  I am allowed 2 hours of child care a day, which I would probably never use all of, but you can't find a babysitter that cheap! It comes out to less than $1 / hour.  I could just go there to take an enjoyable shower or watch tv. ;)

I tried to find a pregnancy friendly workout plan on the usual websites with workout plans, and they were all super lame-o.   I know the basics.  No lunges, no squats, no exercises where you lay on your stomach or back.  Keep your heart rate lower than 140.  Don't lift heavy.  I would still like something with a little guidance.  Surely someone has created a decent workout plan.  I will post one if I find it. If you have one, please send it to me!

Today, I did 2 sets of 8 reps of whatever weights / machines were close to the tv where I could monitor the child care room.  Wyatt was happy the whole time and wandered around and explored and played new toys so I hit up the treadmill and walked for 20 minutes.  I forgot how much I enjoy jamming out to music while "working out".  The child care seems good 'nuff for me.  I know it's not the best, because the kid who is crying the most gets held and then they just kind of run around and referee all the other kids while holding the crier(s).  Let's just say I wouldn't want their job. 

I can't wait to go back.   Memories of corporate 'Merica where I went to the gym and worked out whenever I wanted!  My corporate 'Merica gym had clothes which was really nice while pregnant.  Guess I have to find some sorta workout maternity clothes here soonish.