Embarking upon a new fitness program can be a challenging task. Here are six steps to ensure you start down the right path to health.
1) What’s your starting point? Before embarking on any fitness program, it is important that you first assess your own level of health and fitness. If you have not been regularly exercising, you should check with your doctor before taking the next step. At the very least, plan to start slow and build your way up.

2) Set your goals. What are you trying to achieve? Weight loss? A more muscular body? Write down short term concrete goals that will guide you. One goal might be to lose ten pounds. Another might be to move up to a more difficult level on the stationary bike. Goals are important for several reasons.

The moms are taking over on Discovery Health’s website (http://www.discoveryhealth.com), as maternal fitness experts from StrollerFit Powered by mommymuscle, the nation’s premier mom and baby fitness company, begin blogging all about motherhood.

The blog features StrollerFit President Mary Beth Knight and a host of StrollerFit franchisees from around the country, including a childbirth educator, an exercise physiologist, a counselor and more. Mothers all, they will blog from their personal experience and expertise on a variety of mom-friendly topics, like postnatal depression, getting your body back after twins, losing that low-belly sag, bedrest and much more. StrollerFit’s “Get some mommymuscle(R)!” blog can be found at http://discoveryhealth.clinicahealth.com/blogs.pl and will be updated daily.