If you’re like me, you love your babies, but you also love your alone time.  Fit mothers, like many women, are over achievers, and we want it all: the strong mind and spirit, the healthy body, but more than anything a Fit Mom wants to keep the balance between family time & the healthy time for her fitness goals.

How can we balance it? Being a fit mom, and then just being a fit woman in solitude when we need to?  Well there are a few simple ways that I’ve found worked for me and many women who were fit and super, beautiful, powerful moms.  I decided to list a few things here for all the fit moms (and maybe some dads, too!) who are really amped about having their solitude, although, most fit mamas love their fitness time with the family also! If you’re anything like me though, girl, you NEED the solitude! I get mine as often as possible, and with three children, as a single mother who works, the mommy-solitude-time is hard to come by!

Finding this solitude has helped me maintain my sanity on many a day though. Even as fit as you get, however, you still need that personal time. Especially all us single parents! If you don’t get personal time, and make time for your fitness goals, you will drive yourself crazy losing your identity in full-time parenting and a full-time career.  You have got to make time for yourself, and fitness during that time is the most effective way to create more power and effectiveness in all that you do, while at the same time, fitness brings you clarity on yourself, and elates your state of mind.

Single moms who work for a living find it especially challenging to stay fit, and I get it.  If I wasn’t already “in the industry,” sure, yea, I would imagine that finding the balance would be difficult.  The good news is that finding time for your physical fitness isn’t impossible.  The even better news is that finding time will help you gain more energy, more patience, and more resourcefulness; because the more activity you perform, well, the more energized you will feel. Let yourself use fitness to stay in balance.

When I absolutely feel like pulling my hair out, I can maintain my composure, because I know I will have that treadmill to take it out on later.  Or maybe I’ll get to do sprints out in front of my house.  Perhaps I will be lifting weights at the gym next time I go.  Either way,  I get into the zen-zone by going to the gym or going for a run when begin to feel frustrated.  Fitness is that answer to all our issues.

Unlike getting tanked (which makes us smell like something crawled into our mouths and took a dump, if you ask me), fitness will help me produce more effective outcomes and powerful outputs.  With drinking or sitting around watching tv to escape my life’s challenges, I solve nothing.  When we work out, we think more, we get more clear with a more fit and active body, so we are more likely to go into problem-solving mode rather than cowering in our issues.

Look, I have had that week where the rent was a month late and the collectors were calling about my car payment.  I see more possibilities and an end in sight when I’m working out rather than sitting around.  Fitness is cheap, easy, and accessible, and it makes you feel more powerful.  It’s free to go for a run in the neighborhood or run some plyometrics and push-ups at the park.  My kids can come with me to the park and play or read while I work out.  We can go to the track together. Either way you play it, being a fit mom is the best way to be a mom if you are working toward building a better life and being in a half-way decent mood while building your empire.

There is nothing more refreshing than knowing you are the fittest you can be, and even better knowing that you are doing the best you can.  When you stay fit, you stay optimal.  And if your fitness is family-first fitness, well all the better. Here are a few more tips from my friends:

1)Yoga classes to stretch and relax the muscles and ease tension in your muscles and mind. Stay empowered, do yoga Fit Moms!

work the yoga, fit moms!

2)Weight lifting makes you feel stronger, more powerful, and unconquerable.  Conquer your problems with strength and clarity Fit Moms!

Weight lifting makes us fit moms feel more Powerful!

3)Push-ups, right when you wake up make you go through your day feeling like a champ.  Resolve to do push-ups before the kids wake up, stretch and then go run the day and let life know that it can’t run you, Fit Mama!!

beginners start here, but you can work your way up to military style, which is the goal

4)Run in the neighborhood, doing interval training for a refresher before the kids get up. Just jog, walk and sprint in cycles up and down your block so your house in view and you can open your lungs, your mind, and your soul to rule the world you live in for the day, so it’s problems cannot rule you Fit Mom!

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