Our Top Ten Favorite Fitness Blogs For Moms
With so much on their plates (no pun intended) moms are especially challenged when it comes to maintaining physical fitness and a healthy weight. The challenges of managing a family, a career, hobbies and personal life make it difficult to keep regular workouts or even eat properly. But a woman’s long-term health and happiness is directly linked to how she takes care of her body in all stages of life. Your whole body can become strained and depleted during pregnancy, which makes it so much more important to resume a fitness routine after becoming a mom.
If you’re like many of us who struggle to stay fit and healthy among a multitude of pressures and responsibilities, you can no doubt use a little encouragement and inspiration. While there are thousands of fitness blogs out there in cyberspace, we have a few very special blogs that speak directly to the fitness challenges (and rewards) that moms experience.
Here are our Top Ten Favorite Fitness Blogs For Moms:
MizFit
Her tag line says, “…because fitness isn’t about fitting in” and her motto is “unapologetically myself.” She is an award-winning author, body-building and fitness competitor, journalist and an Austin local. You an follower her on Twitter @MizFitOnline.
Workout Mommy
She is a certified personal trainer who had kids and suddenly realized that moms face unique fitness challenges that are worth blogging about. Her site is a combination of inspiration and practical ideas for keeping up a healthy, busy lifestyle. Follow her on Twitter @workoutmommy
Go Workout Mom
This formal naval officer and mom of two created her blog to inspire others to pursue physical fitness and establish an online community to allow women to support one another in their healthy lifestyle. She’s also one of the few bloggers I’ve ever seen with a mission statement: “To help moms enjoy a more active lifestyle, so they may live a higher quality of life through proper training and motivation.” With posts dating back to 2007 and tons of aadditional links and information, Go Workout Mom is a valuable resource as well as an entertaining read.
Lisa Johnson Fitness
Lisa owns three Boston pilates studios, blogs for AOL, has a valuable blog of her own, and a MOM TV show called Lisa Johnson FIT. She’s been working with pre-natal Pilates clients since 1999 and is the only Pilates instructor accepted as an educational affiliate for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists. Follow her on Twitter @LisaJohnson.
Fitarella
During her youth she suffered from an eating disorder, and along the path to healing she found herself becoming educated on nutrition and fitness. She is now a Board Certified Board Certified Holistic Health Counselor and a Certified Personal Trainer & Fitness Instructor. She blogs with a passion for living a healthy, fit, fun, and full life with balance and self-respect. Follower her on Twitter @Fitarella.
Fit Mom’s Blog
This mother of two is a P.E. teacher and a fitness fanatic. On her blog she shares stories of her sporting events, recipes for healthy meals, product reviews and educational articles. Her passions (aside from her family) include yoga, trail running, cycling, cooking and reading. Follow her on Twitter @FitMom.
Melting Mama
This blogger and her husband both underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2004 and her blog chronicles their successes, struggles and daily path of maintaining their health and fitness. She even has her own radio podcast. Follow her on Twitter @meltingmama.
Mom On The Run
She started blogging when she was pregnant with her first baby and training for a half marathon. (Yes, at the same time). Her blog has morphed into a lifestyle blog with heavy health and fitness emphasis. She even shares her daily menu and training calendar. Talk about motivating! Follow her on Twitter @momontherun.
MCM Mama
This mom of two started running as a natural way to combat her postpartum depression and completed the Marine Corps Marathon in 2008. She has set a goal of running a race in each of the 50 states, and chronicles her adventures on this blog. She also writes about beer. What a woman!
The Great Fitness Experiment
This hilarious mom brings you reviews and honest opinions of weight loss tools, diets and books. Her blog covers a little bit of everything having to do with health, fitness, nutrition and parenting in a zany and entertaining way. Follow her on Twitter @CharlotteGFE
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I adore most of these blogs, and found some new ones too, thanks!
I have another favorite to add, Looking Good Mom, my friend Liz is an amazing inspiration, and has great articles on fitness, exercise and nutrition.
Awesome women!
Thank you. It’s an honor to be included with these wonderful moms.
[...] day I got an email from Amanda of UpSpring Baby who told me that she’s listed me as one of her Top ten Fitness Blogs for Moms. I was listed with some of my heroes, Lisa Johnson Fitness and Workout Mommy. What an [...]
Healthy weight is easy to maintain, just watch your diet and always exercise.`.`
Sometimes I feel like these people are so fanatic about fitness and that’s just not me. I like Robin Farr’s blog at http://www.HotMommyHappyBaby.com/blog. She used to be 70 pounds overweight and looks amazing…and is very practical about how to get in shape when you are a busy, working mom.
It’s great to see that there are so many quality blogs for moms! Mom’s have a terrible time finding time to workout because of all the demands on their time. If they don’t get it though it can cause many problems in the short term and long term.
This is great to see a fitness blogs for Moms. This is going to sound really bad, but I now work for a fitness franchise on the business development end and I know very little about the gym and working out. LOL.. So I have been searching around the web to find a site for women/moms. Most of these workout sites on the web show abnormally large men screaming in some dungeon-like gym as they workout with the weight of a small car. LOL. Great website and I will definitely check out all of your suggested fitness sites for moms.
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Hey, thanks so much for coming up with this wonderful list. I am a mom who works from home and often times I don’t have the time or I guess I’m just too lazy to exercise! I hope the stories of these moms will inspire me to able to realise my new year’s resolution to stay fit despite all the housework!
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