Playground Workout for Mom

Family Park Day- Workout for Mom

Happy early mothers day! Today is Saturday and since mothers day falls on Sunday and most of you will want to relax, read, take a bath, get manicures or massages, take today as an exercise day with your family. Instead of sitting at home on this lovely Saturday, take the kids and husband out to the park for some fun play time. While the younger kids are playing on the playground, you can work on your fitness with some of these fun “playground” moves that some of your older children might even want to do right alongside you.

This workout consists of 10 different exercises that you can do using standard playground equipment. This workout is designed to be a circuit. You’ll go through each of the nine exercises one at a time, performing each exercise about 30-60 seconds and then switching quickly to the next exercise, with very little break in between. Beginners may want to stop with one set. More experienced exercisers may want to go through the circuit a second or third time, with all three sets taking 20 minutes total.

Warm up: Either take a brisk 5-10 minute walk around the perimeter of the playground (if your kids are already playing). If not, take the time to walk around the park, look at nature and enjoy the time with your family.

Exercises:
1. Playground pushups ( either find a platform about waist high or find a swing and place your feet in the swing for a decline pushup).
2. Bench dips (find a bench and perform dips with legs straight out on ground)
3. Monkey bar pullups (keeping your body straight, place hands on bar and pull chest into the bar so your body is raised up)
4. Bear Crawls
5. Frog Jumps
6. Bench step ups ( perform each leg 30 seconds at a time)
7. V-ups on bench (place butt bone on edge of bench and pull knees into chest, then return feet straight out into the air so that they do not touch the ground)
8. Slide lunges (place on foot in front of slide and the other on top of the slide, then being to lower body down into a lunge position, quickly return to starting position and repeat with one leg, switch legs 30 seconds through)
9. Hanging Ab leg raise (hang onto monkey bars and try to bring your knees into your chest. If you are really good, try and keep your legs straight and raise your legs out so they are parallel to the ground)
10. Ab pike (place feet on swing and bring knees into your chest. Return to start position but do not let your lower back dip down when doing so)

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