Simple exercises for busy mums!

Do you find that as a busy mum, the last thing you have time for is visiting a gym or health club? If you are struggling to make time for exercise but are feeling unfit here are some simple exercise tips that you can fit into your day-to-day routine:

• When walking to school or the shops, try step up the pace and power walk
• At the kitchen sink, do some standing buttock clenches
• When waiting at traffic lights in the car, do some simple pelvic floor exercises or hold in your stomach - when tensing this works your transverse abdominals
• Whilst waiting for the kettle to boil try some standing press-ups against the wall
• When cooking in the kitchen, use baked bean tins to do some simple bicep curls and shoulder raises
• Make housework into an exercise routine by hovering at a fast and furious pace. Do the same when washing windows or the car.
• When walking around the supermarket power walk by driving through your heels and clenching your buttock muscles
• Sitting in front of the TV do some front leg raises, turn your legs out and do inner thigh raises or get onto the carpet and do sit-ups or press-ups

Although none of these are formal exercises, they can all simply fit into your busy schedule and quickly become a habit. Quite soon you will start to feel the benefit.