Best Postpartum Workouts When You’re Short on Time – Part 2

Among the many challenges that new moms face, most new moms have these two in common:

1. We have a few (or more) pounds to lose.

2. We don’t have much time to do anything about it.

That is why, as a busy mother of four I look for exercises and workouts that give me “two or three for the price of one”.

Both types of workouts involve muscle-training or sculpting.  Sculpting or muscle-training is the only thing that actually changes the shape and proportion of your body.  Sculpting, not just weight-loss, is what reduces your dress or jean size.  In addition, building muscle (not the same as body-building or “bulking up”) causes your body to burn more calories, not only while you’re exercising, but while you’re at rest.  And, the only way to drop pounds of fat is to have a daily deficit of calories meaning, you are burning more calories than you are taking in.

The question is: Who wouldn’t want the ability to burn lots of calories when you’re not even exercising?  Building muscle does this, and, don’t worry, the kind of muscle training I am recommending is not the bulking up body-building kind.  The kind of sculpting I am talking about builds long, lean, toned, tight, calorie-burning muscles that reduce your jean size!

So how do you accomplish this with so little time?

1.  You do workouts that give you “two for the price of one”.  Two for the price of one workouts are workouts that work more than 1 muscle group at a time.  This way you can accomplish more in less time.  You only need 30 minutes a day to build nice, beautiful muscles that will assist you in your everyday life and help you to burn more calories throughout the day.

2.  You do workouts that give you “three for the price of one”.  Three for the price of one workouts not only work multiple muscle groups but they keep you moving at a faster pace while working LARGE muscle groups.  This gets your heart rate up and delivers a cardiovascular workout at the same time you are building muscle.  Whew!  It’s exhausting but it does not last long.  Again, in just 30 minutes or less you can make a HUGE difference in how your body looks and feels.

So, where you do find such a workout?

One place to start, if you have the luxury of leaving your house to exercise, is a wonderful, innovative circuit-training workout for women called Curves.  I used to workout at Curves (30 minutes or less of cardiovascular muscle-training) when I only had two children and I could do the workout before or after work.  This is a very effective way to change your body (provided you are eating healthfully) quickly!

If your workout consists of a few stolen moments out of extremely busy days at home with your kids, like mine does, try this home workout video:

“Shape Bikini Body Camp: Redefining Workout” on DVD.  This video has two 30 minute workouts that supplement the video I mentioned in my last post, ““Shape Bikini Body Camp: Transforming Workout”.  My favorite is the “interval cardio sculpt”.  It is only 30 minutes long but it is SO efficient.  This workout is great for your heart, for maximum calorie burn, and for changing your postpartum body to a strong, sexy, toned body in a short amount of time!  In the next couple of posts I will highlight more workout videos and tools that make the most of the precious little time and energy you have to put into your workout.

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