New gym at 16 subra

Baby at home is throwing up new ideas and vocations for all of us. I have found that I can totally skip the gym routine. I walk with him back and forth in the bedroom to put him to sleep.Of course he takes his time about it, so the treadmill action goes on, changing my walking  speed in the hope that it will aid the process. No, I do only moderate adjustments, no elevation and fast running. It usually takes about half an hour of intense action for the baby to go to sleep(he continues in that state for exactly 15 minutes, by the way), so my treadmill workout is over.

I carry him on my shoulder, or cradle him in my arms, this is weight training. Earlier I used to restrict myself to the barest minimum of 1kg wts..But now it is heavy duty weight lifting, swinging the weight slightly and holding the weight in different positions. All arm and shoulder muscles are getting a nice workout.And the whole exercise is pleasurable because the weight is a very very soft and cuddly infant. He bawls a lot and occasionally gives out a fleeting smile and you feel the baby is become suddenly lighter.You grin back and coo at the baby and the whole process does not appear as a workout at all.

You come to floor exercises next. The baby holds a darbar in  between feeds and sleep routine. He expects everyone at home to sit around him and talk to him. Like  a typical apartment resident,we had  given up sitting on the floor. Now it has become an integral part of our daily life. I sit crosslegged for a good length of time, much to my surprise. And there are stretching exercises too. When you want that particular toy to amuse the baby, it always is on the other side of the bed. You keep the baby on your lap and after a while stretch your leg. You are surprised that just like that you do  simple movementss to keep the baby rocking on your legs which actually are a good workout for the legs.

The baby's father did pushups keeping the baby on his tummy, to simulate a swinging motion to help the baby go to sleep, and it did!

Every gym instructor will tell you, that you should continuously keep changing your gym routine; the sequence of doing the various exercise routines for one. The speed of treadmill or the elevation or the time you spend on each of these routines should be varied. The reason being, the muscles have a memory and get used to a set pattern, the benefits that flow are not proportional.

And with a baby at home fixed pattern is definitely conspicious by its absence.The toy would not be i the same distance the next time around, you would not be sitting on the floor for the same time, you would not be rocking the baby on your leg after sitting cross legged on the floor and not in the same number of identical leg movements. The baby wont be the same weight either, and it wont sleep exactly at the 30th minute of your 300th step.

And more than all this, there is no music at the background to lighten the boredom that hits you in a gym.What you have instead is a live, wriggly, sometimes giggly package where there is so much variety that one minute is not like another!