If you are like me a day full of changing diapers, feeding, and remembering to eat yourself as left you with no time or energy to hit the gym, run a mile, or or even dream of getting up. Or maybe you have worked all day and just dont know where you will ever find the time to feel healthy again. Now I am not saying this program will melt the inches or magically slim you. You will however feel better everyday and feel good about yourself for accomplishing what you thought you could never have time for. I beleive that along with a healthy diet you can loose the extra pounds that have begun to accumulate.

Here's how it works:
This program will consist of only bodyweight exercises done for about 2-3 minutes, 6-8 times per day, throughout each day.Instead of doing your traditional workouts of hitting the gym 3-4 times a week and doing your normal weight training and cardio routines for an hour, with this program, you will be working out for just a couple minutes at a time, several times throughout each day, 5 days a week.

You can fit the exercises in when ever best fits your schedule. For example you can start at 9 and do one every hour on the hour until you have completed the daily goal. If you are a stay at home mom maybe one every two hours will work best. Creativity is the key.

The good thing about these workouts is that you do enough in 2-3 minutes to get your blood pumping, heart rate up a bit, a large portion of your body's muscles worked, and body temperature raised. However, it's usually not enough to break a sweat in only 2 or 3 minutes, so you don't have to worry about sweating in the office or where ever you may be. At most, you might just get a little moist on the skin. As for the mommy's at home, 2-3 minutes is about the attention span your child has and is a good amount of time for them to keep themselves entertained. You could always fit more in at naptime before you hit the sheets yourself. If you perfer to clean the house while the little ones are asleep just work the exercise into your routine. For example do the dishes and then do some calf lifts, do some dusting and 2-3 minutes of situps.

A few examples of these 2-3 minute workouts are

* up & down a staircase if one is available
* floor planks (holding plank position from forearms and feet)
* floor abs exercises such as lying leg thrusts, ab bicycles, etc.
* bodyweight squats (and variations)
* pushups (and variations)
* forward, reverse, or walking lunges
* one-legged bodyweight Romanian deadlifts

In order to progress on these workouts, you could either add 1 or 2 reps to each set per week, or you could progress to more difficult versions of each exercise each week (for example, close grip pushups, one leg raised pushups, squats with arms raised straight over head, etc.).

Find more mini workouts at www.tinajuanfitness.info and just remember that being healthy and feeling good is more important than trying to fit into your high school clothing!