Exercise can either be a good or bad thing depending on your personality, past experiences, and lifestyle. But, there's no doubt that exercise, whether you like it or not, is a fact of life once you become a parent. The first few weeks after we brought Baby home, the only way to calm her was to walk up and down the stairs in our house. We did this over and over and over - all through the day and the night. My husband and I would take turns and our calves turned into rock solid muscle. As Baby began to get bored with the stairs, I had to develop some creativity. We would bounce on the ball (a core balancing exercise), do sit ups on the ball (an ab/oblique workout), and even do squats against the wall with the ball (a quad/hamstring/glute workout). As Baby grew and gained more weight, my biceps and triceps developed into a sculpted phenomenon of which I had only previously dreamed. I even managed to work in some deltoid/rhomboid/trap (shoulder and...
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