Billie G Fitness

Hey busy moms!

Are glutes exercises part of your workout routine? Give me a 🙋🏻‍♀️ in the comments if you do.

I’m all about training my core and some may not know that our glutes are part of our core. They play a vital role in our daily living like walking, climbing stairs, squatting, and jumping.
Whether you’re trying to grow your glutes for aesthetic reasons or just want overall stronger glutes, it’s important we train our glutes.

Training our glutes are essential for core and pelvic stability, postural support, injury prevention and balance. Our glutes consist of three muscles — gluteus maximus, medius and minimus. When training our glutes we want to focus on hitting each of these muscles for overall strength and balance.

Here’s some of these exercises a try.

Hey busy moms!

How’s your health goals going so far? Tell me in the comments.

I know how hard it is to start a new health routine especially if we don’t feel fully equipped. My biggest advice is to not over complicate our health goals and the easiest way to do this, is to start now and small. Start with a 15min walk daily and then go from there. The main goal is to move our bodies.

Then eventually adding more time or other forms of exercise to our routine. Next, can be focusing on nutrition by either replacing one old food with a new healthy food to your plate or switching out drinks that have less sugar. Again we are starting small and focusing on creating new healthy habits.

Hey busy moms!

Do you like baking? If so, tell me your favorite recipe in the comments

I’ve really gotten into baking since becoming a mom. I literally never thought I would, but it brings me joy to feed my son food from scratch. It’s also another form of meal prepping.

My go to for the week or every other week are muffins. I think muffins are so easy to make and pretty quick. Bonus you can freeze them and reheat later. Another bonus is when cooking with our toddlers it benefits them in so many ways like language skills, fine motor skills and so much more!

Hey busy moms!

Are you having a hard time fitting in exercise with your little one(s) around?

Oh, how familiar I am with this! Our lives change in so many ways after having a baby, especially our schedules. When my son was a baby I would either workout during his naps or I’d put him in his pack n play where I was working out. Sometimes it’s not always ideal, but I think including our little ones while we’re working out is modeling such healthy habits for them. I would use my son as weight with exercises like squats, glute bridges or shoulder press. Another way to exercise is to add walking or hiking to your schedule. We love going on walks together.

Now that my son is 2.5 years old he loves watching me workout and will join in. But if I want to do a workout without him I plan my workouts either in the morning before he wakes up or during his naps. My workouts also look different as I used to workout for over any hour, but these days I workout for 30min. I found 30 minute workouts are just as good and suitable for my health goals.

Sometimes we just have to change our perspective, lower our expectations, and remind ourselves that our little ones will grow up and our workouts will change. The point is we can still workout with our baby, toddler or big kids around. Whether we schedule it at a certain time or find small chunks throughout our day to add some movement. Let’s move our body daily and reap the benefits!

Hey busy moms!

Have you tried meal prepping before?

I’ve dabbled with meal prepping throughout the years and it always made my life easier, but had a hard time sticking with it. In 2025, one of my health goals is to make meal prepping a habit. Just like with all habits it’ll take time and some planning.

Here’s how I plan to get started.

1. Meal planning is super helpful when it comes to meal prepping since we need to know ahead of time what we’re prepping. Meal planning is already a habit so I can move onto step 2.
2. Plan which days of the week I want to meal prep. I want to do two day a week to break it up.
3. Decide which meals I want to prep at first. Do I just want to do snacks, prep veggies for meals or all of the above. I’d like to do both so that’s why I want to break it up into two days.
4. Decided time of day and link my new habit with an old habit. For example, after I unload the dishwasher I’ll meal prep. This allows my mind to make the simple connection to create a long term habit.
5. Practice and make adjustments when needed.

Starting any new habit will take practice. It takes time for our brains to adapt to something new since we are creatures of habit. Find what works for your schedule and start small. We got this 🙌🏻

Hey busy moms!

Are you eating enough protein and healthy fats daily?

When it comes to our health goals I’m a big proponent on starting with our nutrition. I think when we start our health & fitness journey we tend to overlook what we are feeding our bodies. It’s easy to overlook when the mainstream media primarily focuses on exercise. Don’t get me wrong, exercise is also important but it won’t change our bodies entirely, if we’re not nourishing it properly.

The easiest way to get started is to add more protein and healthy fats to our plate at each meal. Protein and fat helps keep our bodies satisfied until the next meal. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for protein is 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. That’s just the minimum amount and even then some people don’t get enough. It changes when you exercise especially strength train and are pregnant or nursing.

I made these protein balls this week for mine and my son’s snack. They are packed with protein and healthy fats like peanut butter and walnuts. Sometimes adding protein or more protein to our plate can take a little extra planning, but our bodies will always thank us for nourishing it.

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Hey busy moms!

As we’re entering 2025 have you started thinking about your health goals for the year?

The #1 NY’s resolution is to lose weight or exercise more. It’s always a great goal to focus on our health but our goals needs to be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time based. When we get more detailed it helps us focus on our goal without giving up within a month or two.

As an online health coach & personal trainer I help my clients work through the SMART framework so they are achieving their goals. Sometimes we need help and support from a coach to get us started. It takes the guesswork out of it and puts you on the path to living a healthy lifestyle. My passion is to help my clients stay the course and provide them with the tools. It’s about community, support, and working together.

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Hey busy moms!

Here’s what I eat in a day. I typically only drink a protein shake if I do a strength training workout. I don’t count calories but focus on eating protein and fat at each meal and whole and natural foods. I eat until I feel satisfied not overly full. I’m a sucker for eating something sweet at the end of the day but make sure I include protein since it helps balance our sugar levels.

Find what works for you. Don’t feel pressured to eat a diet that doesn’t align with your goals or isn’t sustainable long term.

Hey you!

You know what’s great about our health goals? You can start them anytime of the year. It doesn’t have to be on a Monday or the first of the year or when we think we’re ready. Sometimes we just have to go for it without overthinking it. Without worrying about what others think or how we’re going to look. It’s about taking the leap.

I remember when I was prepping for my half marathon two years ago. I felt nervous and anxious, but excited to have such a big goal to reach for. It was nice having a schedule to follow daily and something to look forward to.

Our health goals don’t have to be that big, but having a small and big goal in mind are extremely helpful. It keeps us on track, guides us, and ultimately helps us achieve our goals. This is me telling you, you got this!