Day 12 of Challenge!

I must say that even though I have hundreds (if not thousands) of fitness videos online to browse through, I have yet again settled on Ballet Beautiful. Maybe because I like Mary Helen Bower's body type. Or because I have tried her workouts before and really felt like they targeted my trouble areas. Or perhaps it is because I did Part 1 of her Thigh and Butt workout, but never did Part 2.

So, today I did Part 2.

It's killer, People! 

It really attacked the Saddlebag area and bum. As I was doing the workout, I was thinking to myself, "Fat be gone! See ya, Cellulite!" And it helped because the moves were killer!

Since my legs were warmed up from doing that, I decided to work my splits again. And right then my baby woke up from her nap so I had her sit in her little bumbo seat and watch! She was cooing and cheering me on the whole time. :)

7 Steps to splits

I stumbled upon another popular fitness channel- Autumn Fitness. Autumn has quite a few videos to get you in shape and has a decent following. I tried her 7 Tricks To Get You Into the Splits and I liked a couple of her tips. For one thing, she said to stay in each pose for 30 seconds. That can feel like a long time, but it is much more effective. And second, she uses pillows in between her legs while in a split to slowly ease into them. Once you become more flexible you can remove one or both pillows all together.

After these two things, my workout time was over because baby comes first!

Bring on Day 13!