Buggy Fitness for Cafe Bebe
Four weeks ago I began a new fitness regime. It’s called Buggy Fitness for Cafe Bebe! I attend a Buggy Fitness class once a week and get my ARSE kicked while Little Miss looks on and cheers. It’s rather fun and reminds me every time that I always feel so much better when I exercise. Then Wednesday rolls around and I forget. I find excuses to NOT exercise. Here are some of them:
- It’s raining.
- It’s too cold.
- I’m sore from Tuesday’s workout.
- I have to send some emails.
- Little Miss has to have a nap.
- My neurotic, separation-anxiety-ridden, 14 year old dog is neurotic, full of separation anxiety and is 14 years old.
- It’s raining.
Taking part in a Buggy Fitness class is brilliant. The personal trainer tells us what to do. I do it. The problem is that when I’m on my own, I don’t listen very well to MYSELF! I enjoy going out and about with Little Miss but (curse it) she’s getting old enough to NOT want to be in the pushchair as much (I’m crying inside about this). I’ve even considered running a Buggy Fitness class myself as I do have a Fitness Degree from the US of A, don’t you know?! Unfortunately without UK qualifications, I don’t think I’d get very far.
I desperately want to change my physical form. However, I am seriously lacking in ACTION. I suppose I have the motivation but I lack the action to make it happen. I had an interesting chat with hubby last night about this very thing. He wants to help me. He doesn’t like me getting upset or being irrational and throwing out 3/4 of my wardrobe because I don’t fit into it anymore. As with most men, he’s a problem solving kind of husband. If he can’t solve it, he gets cross. I don’t like it when he’s cross with me. I don’t like it when anyone is cross with me. I have OPD- Obsessive Pleasing Disorder…I’m about to commit myself, to be honest!
My ideal form of fitness is attending fitness classes at a gym. I adore Body Pump. I transformed myself about 10 years ago thanks to Body Pump. It’s the perfect combination of weight training exercises to kick butt/toe tapping/current and classic tunes for 60 minutes. It’s a great total body workout (minus the cardio tho). When I was in the year 2000, I attended Body Pump 3-4 times a week, attended a Boot Camp class once a week and Pilates once a week in addition to my job of teaching gymnastics to adorable (and not so adorable) preschoolers. The fitness centre was free as I was an employee and was in the same building. I had no excuse. I’m good at excuses (see above). I lost about 15 lbs and looked very good (if I do say so myself). This was at least 2 stone ago. (sob…weep)
So, here we are in 2010. I am a mostly happy mum to a gorgeous 2 year old and devoted wife to my weary hubby. We don’t have EXTRA money to shell out for a health club membership even though two MAJOR franchise health clubs are only about a 10 minute drive from our house. Bannatyne’s Health Club is the closest and has quite a few sessions of Body Pump on offer in addition to a slew of other great fitness classes and equipment. It’s also about £40 per month. We’d have to nearly stop eating to afford that. Well, maybe if I stopped eating?
Fitness First is a bit further down the road to me but also has Body Pump classes on offer as well as Pilates, Yoga, Spin and other fun offerings. My goal was to see if either club wanted to exchange a membership for an online diary, blog posts and advertising. I’m not sure that will happen even though I’m a delightful blogger and worthy recipient. I feel like if I had a fitness club to go to, had classes to attend (versus just going and “working out”) and had to account for my progress I would follow through and do what is necessary for me to succeed. I also have Wii with 2 fitness programmes which I really SHOULD just plug in, turn on and get down to it.
I would love some encouragement or clue as to why I sabbotage myself. Please feel free to share your tips, tricks and advice as I clearly need it. Just please don’t yell at me…I hate it when people yell. I’m a bit like a hedgehog in that respect. Watch me curl up into a little ball! In the meantime, until Duncan Bannatyne rings me up, I’ll keep attending Buggy Fitness and subjecting Little Miss to mummy’s huffing and puffing.
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I don’t have any answers I am afraid although I am totally the same. It is weird isn’t it? I too want to loose the weight and change my shape but constantly think of reasons not to go and reasons to stay at home and I’m not even talking about fitness am talking about going to slimming world. So if you find the answer I would love to know as I have no clue. Good luck with it all xx
When this happened to me, we invested in a running machine at home. At least then I could workout at home whenever, and it didn’t matter that the little one’s didn’t want to be in the buggy. Buggy fitness class. Didn’t exist when my kids were in buggies, just 3 years ago. But we are in Lanzarote. They are all still into promenading the baby up and down all night before they eat dinner at 10pm! Kids and babies still in tow! I ran out of strength as well with my youngest being twin girls. They just got too heavy to push when it was 12 kilos each plus the buggy – I injured my back!
I would advise against selling your soul to Fitness First. I had a membership there and when I cancelled it after a year they claimed not to have received my letter (which I hand delivered to their desk) and hassled me for several months for unpaid fees. We eventually settled on an extra months’ fee, but it has put me off them for life. Would never recommend them.
What about your local Council-run leisure centre? Most have gym/pool and a creche, are a bit cheaper than big-chain gyms, and aren’t as difficult to deal with! When my daughter starts school I am definitely signing up to my local centre.
Also, check your local paper for classes. I go to aerobics at the local school and circuit training in the church hall. They cost me £9 a week. There’s also a local walking group and running club that are free. Much cheaper than a gym membership, and there is company from like-minded local people. Social exercise! Great fun
Sorry Karin can you delete the last comment – I pressed send before spellchecking it!
Hi Karin, the secret is not a secret at all – it’s to find 2 things: 1. what’s motivates you & then 2. Something that gets you in shape that you actually enjoy. The motivation might be a dress size, a number on the scales, a pair of jeans you want to get back into… doesn’t matter & everyone is motivated differently – that’s why going to a weekly ‘weigh-in’ works for some & fills others with horror. Decide what your goal is, set a realistic time scale & reach it into manageable chunks.
Ditto ‘bootcamp’ (some want to be yelled at, some don’t!) group classes vs. one-to-one or the privacy of your front room & a DVD or a personal trainer. There’s no ‘right’ way.
But you do need to get the foundations sorted first. If you have an umbilical hernia, you need to get it repaired & this requires medical intervention. Then you need to work on rebuilding your cores strength, closing any diastasis gap. These are the foundations – the rest is fat loss.
It IS a big mountain to climb – & the only constant – regardless of which method or motivator you choose, is consistency. One class, one session with a trainer, one week of being ‘good’ with your eating is not going to achieve anything. So my advice would be try not to chop & change too much – all types of aerobic & resistance exercise combined with healthy eating will achieve the same fat loss goals. If there’s a secret – it’s to STICK TO IT!
Thank you NoMoreExcuses! I’m going to look into the medical side for real now! Ringy dingy Dr. GP. Will let you know how I go!
Good luck X
I wish I knew how to find my fitness mojo. If you find yours, tell it to come and give mine a kick up the bum, will you? Hahaha! xx
Will do Rachael! Shall we do it over meatballs again?!