About Me

I’m not a sporty person, anyone who has seen me with a bat or raquet or even at an exercise class will tell you how hopeless my coordination is!  Nevertheless, I am not inactive and like to think that my lifestyle is more mobile than static.  I’m a stairs rather than lift person, I don’t drive so think nothing of walking everywhere, my job isn’t completely desk bound.  Before my first pregnancy I went running two-three times a week and now I run around after a toddler.  I suppose I am/was like a lot of women and try to fit being active into my daily lifestyle without much time devoted to specific exercise sessions.

After the birth of my first child, my daughter, 21 months ago I did my pelvic floor exercises and paced the streets with the pram or, more often, with her in the baby carrier for at least an hour a day for six months.  That was the extent of my post-baby exercise programme.  It wasn’t that I didn’t know about exercise sessions that I could join, I just felt so out of sorts for several months and my daughter seemed to want feeding constantly and then cried and screamed whenever she was put down that doing anything for myself, including exercise, didn’t seem to be an option.

Life got easier after six months and a month or two later I met Katy and found out about Ready Steady Mums (RSM).  By then I was pretty much back to my pre-pregnancy body but I wanted a rounded exercise programme that would fit in with being a full-time mum.  I started to follow RSM’s online programme and also signed up for another 12 week exercise programme, New Mum New You, that was being run locally.  I toned up, looked fab, felt great, went back to work and became pregnant again!