#44: 30 day 5-min exercise challenge for tired mums

It isn’t always easy to find time to exercise. From the moment I wake up I am on “mummy” duty. During breakfast I think about lunch. During lunch I plan dinner. I make sure Freya sleeps enough, eats enough, drinks enough, reads enough, has time to do puzzles, go outside at least twice a day, shopping, washing, cleaning…

Yet exercising makes me feel good in my body. Helps me perform all these tasks safely and keeps me pain free. As soon as I stop, I notice discomfort in different parts of my body, in my back, glutes, neck and shoulders. It also helps me have more energy to stay patient and laugh when days get hard.

Therefore, I prepared this 30 day exercise challenge for tired mums. We exercise only 5-min a day (in sync with our menstrual cycle). Read more to check all benefits and “rules”.

#34: My postnatal recovery and fitness journey

Postnatal recovery and weight loss looks different for each woman, and we should never compare ourselves to others. Six months after giving birth I was desperate to lose my baby weight. I hoped that by this point I will be back to my pre pregnancy clothes. I had this idea about how my postnatal recovery should look like and the reality didn’t really match it. I kept on trying to get back to training and I failed every single time. Eventually, when Freya was 12 months old I just crashed. Every little thing was making me extremely stressed. I didn’t know what was going on with me but it wasn’t such an unusual thing. Many mums go through extreme fatigue in the first year of giving birth (I don’t mean depression, I mean total exhaustion which also affects mood but isn’t the same as depression).

New MumKarolina ZywickaJune 2, 2022ne, new mum, pregnancy, postnatal, postnatal weight loss, hormones, hormonal balance, female, female trainingComment

#19: Cannot stick to your exercise routine since you became a mum? Here's why and how to "fix" it.

Do you struggle to stick to your exercise routine and feel guilty or lazy? Don't. It means that your current training plan isn't for you. Most research that inspire all latest training trends is based on man. But the female body doesn’t work the same way. the good news is that when you start training like a woman you wont only stick to your workouts but you will also get the results you want.