Exercise. Move your body daily, sweat, run, be sore, they say.

HAVE YOU EXERCISED TODAY?

For a while now, my workout routine entails a home workout from Instagram or YouTube fitness folks I follow or a run/walk outside (check out the list below for some of my recent choices).

Earlier this week, I thought about freaking amazing it is that I get to move my body. To move my limbs. To breathe hard. To sweat. Make that funny workout face when you’re trying hard to push yourself. To swear and keep asking ‘why am I doing this?!’.

I also thought how incredible my body is and I scanned back my thoughts and memories of my 2 healthy pregnancies. Saw my babies. The sleepless nights. All the breastfeeding. The endless long walks with a buggy. All the cries and happy moments. All the carrying, rocking and lifting.

And, then I saw my toddlers. And again, all the carrying, playgrounds and chasing the ball and pretending to be a rocket.

And I thought again: what a privilege it is to have my body.

To move my limbs. To feel my muscles. To feel my breath. What an amazing mechanism that is, that allows me to experience all this and feel strong when I need to. Isn’t biology incredible?

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT EXERCISE?

Motherhood has changed how I look at exercise. Growing older made me appreciate fitness so much more. For all what it is, and all that it isn’t.
My return to uni and rediscovering my passion for physiology and nutrition, has made me see how it’s all connected- our body, mind and soul.

There are a few things and concepts that just blow my mind and out there in the world- and the body is one of them. From top to bottom, brain to toes. 

Have you ever thought about it like that?

What is a simple obvious thing you see daily that just makes you stop and suddenly be in awe? 

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Some of my go-to online workouts recently include:

• Andrea @deliciouslyfitnhealthy
• Julie @ourfitfamilylife
• Shona @shona_vertue
• Zanna @zannavandijk
• Joe @thebodycoachtv

A tip: I save the workouts I like on Instagram in a folder on the app. It saves me from decision fatigue and mindless scrolling, aka wasting the precious time dedicated to workout.