BURNT OUT MOM WORKOUT

It has been a long haul this week, my husband was away since last Thursday and finally on the day he is to return, the girls woke up sick. A long week of work and parenting on my own, I was so looking forward to taking them to Riverdale Farms for the day and enjoying. I woke at 6:50am by the first culprit and by 7:45am I was staring at the clock, counting down the hours until my husband gets home (only 12 more to go at this point). He phoned from the airport in Germany to tell me he has left his immagration card at home so he may be delayed or I may have to bring it to him to get through customs. My reponse- don't get thrown in the clinck, be home by noon tommorrow, I am going to the spa for my mothers day present.

The spa was great I had a massage and facial, I lapped up every bit of pampering I could. I go to a spa about 1x/year and I can count on one hand how many times I have had a facial. I have to do this more often, figure out a way to get away and take care of myself.

I did one workout over the weekend as I still feel the effects of my chest infection, that the girls both have now. In our neigbouhood childrens allergies are getting it into their chest and it is turning into a respiratory flu.

My Busy Mom Workout for the burnt out mom. I performed a Tabata interval workout and used 2 exercises. The modified pullup and the full pushup. My next Tabata was weighted full squat with weighted reverse lunges. I performed some core work, ab wheel roll outs, plank reach, 3 position mountain climbers using the stability ball.

I still find the PUSH UP and the PULL UP the most effective exercises and I will never tire of them, probably because I feel I will never truley conquor them. They are an on going battle for me and for most women. I can take time off squats and return stronger, when I take time off push ups or pull ups my strength drops quickley, I try to perform a few each week even with under the weather.

BUSY MOM FITNESS-Strength Experiment Day 3 and Berpie Pullup Video

Today I performed my workout and attempted my max lifts on the barbell Clean and total number of Berpie Pullups. This is the third week of my 6 week mini experiment. I have 2 control athletes that have been posting at http://babybumpfitness.ning.com and I am the test subject.

My conditions for the past few days have been brutal at best. This week my husband is away travelling so I have no relief after a day of training clients that begins at 5am. I did a small Tabata busy mom fat loss workout on Monday that took 15 minutes. On Tuesday I performed a day of just core training. My nutrition has been good this week so far and I feel well. My sleep has been BRUTAL. Monday night I was disturbed by the baby at 1:45am, I was up at 5am for work and went to bed at 9pm last night. I woke again last night to a screaming toddler at 10:45pm, she came into my bed for a cuddle and sleep as her nose was stuffy, she sleeps sideways. She woke periodically during the night and the baby woke me at 2:30am so I had to get up and comfort her as well. We were up at 7am this morning as I start work later.

FITNESS MOM Max Strength Experiment Week 3- my workout today after brutal sleeps. Dynamic warmup including thoracic mobilization moves, arm and leg swing, inchworm and lunges. I performed 2 sets of berpie pullups. I was able to improve and complete a 6 this week-I cut myself off after this as my right shoulder has been nagging me. I performed barbell Clean warmups and my weight increased by 5 lb for a 2 rep max. So there you go - good nutrition, bad sleep and med-high emotional stress still yielded a small improvement this week in my max strength experiment.

Here is a small video of a berpie pullup-I don't know what happened to my camera woman- too much wine maybe. I have been posting my workouts since I started this blog a few months post partum. You can track the progressions to get to an exercise like this. Any questions please ask- I would be glad to help. It doesn't matter where you start- it's where you end up that COUNTS. You will notice there are some root moves such as the front plank from the furious 5 in the berpie pullup exercise.