My oldest went back to school last week and I suddenly realized that on Tuesdays and Thursdays I can head to Fit4Mom Severn's newest program, Stroller Barre! For years, I've heard amazing things about Barre classes. I mean-anything that can help me look 'longer and leaner'--I'm in!
The class meets at the Waugh Chapel Town Center each Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30am and starts with a warm up of stretching and lengthening. The teachers constantly reminding us to be conscious of our posture. I know that even while working out, it's hard for me to remember to stand up straight let alone while I'm carrying a child on one hip and leaning to hold the other's hand while walking to and from the car multiple times daily.
Stroller Barre is a travelling class so we then headed off to the first station. Depending on your fitness level, you could run, speed walk or even just walk (pushing our strollers of course). This class was a partner class and so at the first station, we found our partners, one did a wall sit on the columns and the partner did a reverse plank with leg lifts on the first person's knees. It's tough-but so empowering to feel your own body holding not only you up-but your partner, helping to keep them balanced too. While holding our positions, I caught up with my partner-one of my Body Back buddies! We also sang 'you are my sunshine' to our kids in strollers!
After this we continued this pattern of travelling and then an exercise along with a song. I think my absolute fave was the the back to back side planks while passing a ball under ourselves to crunch our obliques. The song we sang had the following lyrics:
'The more we work our obliques, our obliques, our obliques
The more we work our obliques, the stronger we'll be.
'Cause you are a strong mom, and I am a strong mom.
The more we work our obliques, the stronger we'll be!
(I was singing this the rest of the day-AND the next day at the gym too!)
The class ended with some yoga style stretching still with our little ones in tow. This was about the point that my guys started to want out of the stroller. They are almost 3 and don't really ride in a stroller all that often anymore, so I was actually pretty darn impressed they stayed the whole time.
After class ended, the littles were all released from their strollers and enjoyed some parachute play time will the moms got to catch up and chat. It was good so see some friends I know form Body Back-and great to meet their kiddos. The best was Will, age 6, leading a parade of toddlers while carrying the parachute and calling out, "who wants to join my party?!" My boys had so much fun playing with the other kids-and all three of us were exhausted when we finally made it home after errands that day.
I'm so excited that we finally made it to Stroller Barre and that we can start to add these Tuesday and Thursday workouts and play dates into our schedule! Come Stroller Barre & play with us too!
To learn more about Fit4Mom Severn and it's programs, check out their website! You can also follow them on Facebook too!
