March 4th- Fastpass Fitness

photo courtesy of faqorlando.com

Every Wednesday and Friday (and some Mondays) I take a stroller fitness class called Stroller Strides.  I have been doing it since Everett was 8 weeks old and it has really helped, not only with shedding the baby weight, but also with making Mom friends.   The classes consist of power walking or jogging segments, broken up by strength training stations.  I have never really been all that into exercise, I never was very athletic,and before I got pregnant, I didn't exercise regularly.  This class has really been a big change for me, and while I still don't love it, I have gotten much more fit.

My favorite part of the class is the power walking segments, because every time I speed walking down the track, I use fastpasses as my inspiration.  I visualize that I am walking as fast as I can to aquire that coveted first fastpass of the day.  Some days I imagine I'm walking toward Toy Story Mania, other days Splash Mountain, and still others Expedition Everest.  On March 4th, I visualized heading toward Soarin' and imagined all the steps I would take from rope drop to the fastpass machine.  I find it really helps me maximize my speed and also gives me a dose of Disney magic first thing in the morning.