Baby Workout

Tadpole is down for her second nap, the remnants of lunch are cleaned off of counters, floors, clothes, highchair, dishes, etc.  Now I have somewhere between 20 minutes and an hour of writing time!  Up today - the baby workout.

I swam in high school (10 years ago), but haven't seriously worked out since then.  At the beginning of the year, I actually started working out in the fitness center in our building.  At least a half hour every day, generally on the elliptical machine.  That lasted right up until Tadpole was born.  I don't think I've been back to the fitness center since then.  Babies tend to interfere with other routines.

I have done a fair amount of walking with tadpole, often carrying her on my chest in a Baby Bjorn, but I've been thinking for a while that it would be good to get back into shape, without really any hope for finding a Tadpole-free time to get back to the various devices downstairs.

Today it occurred to me that I've got an 18 lb. weight with enough trunk and head control to enjoy being tossed in the air.  Who needs a workout machine when you've got a baby!
(Disclaimer - Tadpole enjoys being tossed in the air.  She also doesn't spit up when this happens.  I understand this makes her at least somewhat unusual as a baby, but I'll take it!)  So without further ado, the baby workout routine:

Tadpole tosses (straight up in the air, watch her giggle!)  - 2 sets of 10, 1/day.
Sit ups (Tadpole sitting on stomach / chest) - 2 sets of 10, 1/day
Push ups (Tadpole watching and giggling, because daddy's head going rapidly up and down is funny) - 2 sets of 10, 1/day

Steady walk of at least 30 minutes every day.  Ideally at least 3 of these each week will involve carrying Tadpole in the carrier, rather than just pushing a stroller.  (This will get more difficult in the winter, but hopefully will still be doable).

I haven't done 10 tosses in a row before today.  It's a bit of work.  And it'll get harder.  So will the sit ups. But hey - my biggest challenge with working out has always been finding some way to enjoy the time.  A giggling baby is pretty much the best way to spend my day, so that much is solved!