I've only been able to make it to the gym once or twice a week. I've been able to do my home work outs on some of the other days. But I'd really like to get to the gym more often. I've been doing my home work outs in the morning before Bel wakes up. That's been working out fine, but I would prefer to use that time to do something else, like write these blogs, work on some scrapbooking, or do a little reading. Then I could go to the gym after she wakes up, and let her play in their day care.

But it seems like I've been so booked most other days of the week, with prenatal appointments, play dates with friends, story time at the library, shopping, or taking Bel swimming. And lately, I've been running errands, preparing for her birthday party. Next thing you know, Baby J will be born, and then it's off from the gym for 2 months until he's old enough to go to their day care.

My training sessions at the gym have been going really well. I am fortunate that they have a couple of trainers that do prenatal fitness. It's been helping my back feel better, and I feel good about getting stronger in my core so that I can hopefully have an easy delivery and be strong enough to lug that heavy infant carrier all over the place! 

I finally joined a gym. Yeah, as much as I love My Fitness Coach for the Wii, I just haven't been able to find time alone to do it. I used to do it in the morning before Bel woke up, but then she started getting up early, or she wants me to stay in bed with her. I joined Gold's Gym, and they have a nice daycare that Bel liked very much on the first day. But the subsequent days were another story. Now I'm wondering if I should have joined. I hope she'll learn to like it. Plus she started sleeping in again after I joined. So I've still been doing My Fitness Coach on days when she doesn't wake up when I try to sneak out of bed. (Yeah, I know, I've contemplated weaning her out of our bed, but just haven't set out to do it yet. It would be a whole new can of worms.)

In a perfect world, I would like to get to the gym 5 days a week. MWF to do cardio and TTh to do strength training. Taking classes is an even better version of the perfect world. I would have to actually get there on time, and it hasn't been happening with Bel waking up late some mornings. So in a more realistic world, it will probably be more like going to the gym TTh for cardio, and doing My Fitness Coach at home on any mornings that I possibly can.

I also signed up for 10 sessions of training. Since I've been a home workout person for so long, I have no idea how to use those machines. Even something as simple as the treadmill, they had to show me how to use it. But I have yet to really begin my training because I can't seem to get to the gym. Today, Bel didn't wake up until 11am. I thought about waking her up, but she's been really crabby when I've done that before. I guess I'll shoot for the gym again tomorrow. 

Since Zumba has become so popular, I thought I'd give it a try. We have a Kinect Xbox system, so I borrowed the Zumba Fitness game from my friend to try it out. Right away I could see why Zumba has become so popular. It's lots of fun and a really great workout. I was sweating and enjoying learning new dance steps.

After several workouts, I realized that I was missing my strength training workouts. I usually do My Fitness Coach for the Wii, which includes strength training, cardio, and yoga. But doing the Zumba workouts, I was missing out on ab strengthening, etc. So I'm back to My Fitness Coach, which is still the best game workout I've ever used.