core strength

a couple years ago some friends and i were hanging out (kellie, kristy, heather, jo and rich) Rich at that time was getting his FIT on cause he was trying out for the FBI and had to be in top-notch killer shape. he had to do certain drills in a certain amount of time. so rich wanted to see if any of us could do it, so he timed us to see how many sit-ups we could do in 60secs. i think i did like 36, kristy of course won doing a million and a half. and then jo tried and she could only do like 3 sit-ups. (do you gals remember this) i was shocked jo is an athlete, runs marathons but couldn't do a sit-up?? well she had 4kids in less than 6years and her stomach muscles just weren't the same.

now that i have had the same privilege of having a prego-belly i realize that doing a sit-up after having a baby who has stretched all your stomach muscles to shreds, i too couldn't do a sit-up until about 3wks ago. sorry i made fun of you back then jo:)

so to all of us who have had, and will have a baby in the belly, getting our core strength back is a challenge but here are some great tips to get it back.

also just remember our core helps us do every movement we make. walking, standing upright, sitting, turning, jumping, etc. so if we don't have a strong core we lose our overall total strength. so keep in mind just 5min every other day may make all the difference in finally achieving that full sit-up. i know it has for me.