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So you had baby #2 eight months ago at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring…
You’ve watched what you ate, exercised 4-5 days per week, in addition to cardio and strength training at LA Fitness in Wheaton.
Maybe you’ve lost inches in your thighs and really tightened up your arms, but none of the pregnancy weight on your midsection has come off, no matter how hard you work.
Your belly and love handles bulge out of the top of your jeans even though your lower half looks slim.
It looks like you’ve lost your curves and you hate it.
Before I took my online training full time, I was a part-time online coach and full time nanny, so i’ve seen this cycle first hand with the mama bears I’ve worked with who just couldn’t seem to target their abdominal baby fat. But I want you to remember something. Post baby BODY WEIGHT does not mean post baby body!
Here’s what I suggest in order to lose that tummy body fat:
1. Increasing the intensity of your cardio workouts and including intervals (alternating power walking/sprinting with a recovery walking or jogging period). HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) has been suggested to be significantly more time effective for losing fat than traditional lower intensity or steady-state cardio.
For example, this study found that the majority of participants who performed 4-6 30 second sprints lost MORE body fat than walking for 60 minutes at a low intensity.
Although nothing in science is considered “PROVEN” it is pretty safe to say, or suggested that if your goal is to as much fat as you can in a short period of time, HIIT is your best bet.
How?