{"id":1433,"date":"2013-09-11T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2013-11-22T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:50:50","slug":"mommy-cise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/11\/mommy-cise\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy-cise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve never been a member of a gym.\u00a0 The summer between High School and College I went to our local rec center to work out fairly frequently but that ended as soon as college started.\u00a0 Hubby and I have talked about getting a membership many times but it\u2019s never happened.\u00a0 We looked a few different options in Dublin but two things made us decide it wasn\u2019t worth it:<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Childcare.\u00a0 A lot of the bigger gyms offer on-site childcare where you can leave your children while you work out.\u00a0 Sounds great, until you actually look into it.\u00a0 The ones we looked at in Dublin charged \u20ac8 per hour, per child.\u00a0 That would have been \u20ac32 every time I went to work out (assuming I was there 2 hours) on top of the monthly membership fee and gyms here are not much better.\u00a0 I decided in Dublin to get a babysitter and go take dance classes instead which I like better anyways and we probably saved money overall.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Location.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have a car in Dublin so getting to a gym with childcare involved either a 15 minute train ride plus 10 minute walk or a 20+ minute walk each way.\u00a0 There is no way I would have worked out regularly knowing I had to then get home afterwards.\u00a0 Even now with the car, the closest gym with childcare is about a 10 minute drive and that\u2019s 20 minutes of my life I don\u2019t want to spend in my car and gas I don\u2019t want to pay for.<\/p>\n

\"oslo\"<\/a>So instead, in addition to dancing, I\u2019ve relied on walking.\u00a0 I walk everywhere I can.\u00a0 This morning I dropped Honeybun\u00a0at school then went to Target for milk before heading home.\u00a0 Total walking: over 2 miles (not including wandering through nearly every aisle of Target).<\/p>\n

I realize walking is not the best exercise, but I figure I get added benefit due to the fact that I\u2019m usually pushing close to 100 lbs of children and buggy (and whatever I\u2019ve bought if shopping) plus it\u2019s a bazillion freaking degrees outside PLUS I have to speed walk to keep the 100 lbs of child\/buggy easily moving in a forward direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

I may not be exercising the way I want to or the amount I \u201cshould\u201d but a mommy\u2019s got to do what a mommy\u2019s got to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve never been a member of a gym.\u00a0 The summer between High School and College I went to our local rec center to work out fairly frequently but that ended as soon as college started.\u00a0 Hubby and I have talked about getting a membership many times but it\u2019s never happened.\u00a0 We looked a few different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}