Lose the Baby Weight: Get a Better Body After Baby

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Lose the Baby Weight: Get a Better Body After Baby

Cardio Plan: Burn, Baby (Fat), Burn

Thirty continuous minutes of anything may seem like a tall order with a new baby at home, but keep that daily stroller outing with Junior at a light three-miles-per-hour pace and it will burn at least 106 calories. Gym-bound? Try this 26-minute interval routine from Ungaro: "It's designed to burn more calories per minute than your average steady workout but isn't too intense."

26-Minute Sizzler
Pick any activity -- walking, running, cycling, elliptical, stairclimber -- and follow these intervals.

3 minutes WARM UP (fast walk, light jog, light pedaling, and so on)
1 minute MODERATE intensity
1 minute EASY pace
2 minutes MODERATE intensity
1 minute EASY pace
3 minutes MODERATE intensity
1 minute SPRINT
3 minutes MODERATE intensity
1 minute SPRINT
2 minutes EASY pace
4 minutes MODERATE intensity
1 minute SPRINT
3 minutes COOL DOWN at an easy pace.

Originally published in FITNESS magazine, February 2010.