How to rollerblade to workout legs, butt and abs
If you have to do it slowly pushing the baby stroller
Lots of moms and dads do rollerblading with the baby stroller. It’s fun and it brings some changes into a daily routine.
If an athlete in you dares for more, you can make a full body workout during skating. Special exercises transform rollerblading into a body sculpting workout. I call it a Strollerblading. And this is exactly what we moms need!
I added some videos for the exercises to show how exactly to do them.
If an athlete in you dares for more, you can make a full body workout during skating.
Rollerblading with the stroller: sculpting legs, arms and the butt
The secret here is not just skating fast (actually, it’s not safe) but moving slowly making high amplitude movements with your legs just behind and along the stroller.
How do I skate slowly yet still have a fat-burning fitness workout?
The answer is smart skating. Use the special Strollerblading techniques!
- Inline skating with amplitude – basic skating steps just raising the legs a bit higher and holding up for a second. Great for all the legs and butt muscles.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz7RrusLLuk]
Half-circles skating exercise – same basic inline skating technique, just drawing the half circles with your legs in the air. Incomparable workout for butt and legs.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJgbaMESpE]- Wave skating exercise – going down the hill make your legs come closer and further to each other. Great exercise to workout the inner hip’s muscles. Wave is great way to drop the speed when skating down the heel.
- Infinite eight skating exercise – it’s literary like drawing a number 8 with your both legs behind the stroller. Working hips, legs and stomach!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juv7rzHQ39g]
- Double steps rollerblading exercise– while skating make two small steps right and two small steps left instead of one normal. Bring weight to your tows and move behind the stroller rather than forward to prevent from speeding up. Good to challenge your leg’s muscles and test your cardio.
- Slalom rollerblading – it’s actually a basic skating technique for mountain skis, either for the pros rollers. Hold your legs to the ground without taking them off the ground. Hold legs parallel each other. Move left-right along the stroller. Fantastic technique for shaping a butt. High intensity.
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- [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r1OZBWk1cs]
Arms are worked out by pushing the stroller during the skating.
It’s important to maintain a correct rollerblading position and keep the speed low. An effort of pushing a stroller is enough to workout your arms and lower back’s muscles. One hour of skating twice a week is more than enough to keep the body in great physical shape.
I have been roller skating with my pram since my baby was born and I love it! It has helped me reduce weight but most importantly, going for a stroll with my baby is great fun and exercising hasn’t felt greater than this!
Great, Alexandra! You did just right.Rollerblading is such a great thing for body and soul, especially after you couldn’t do anything like this during the pregnancy! I loved it. Now, when your child is grown enough, you might consider going rollerblading with the jogging stroller – it will bring you to the next training level, because you’ll be able to do fitness rollerblading to keep strenghting the muscles. Fitness rollerblading pushing baby stroller – read here for inspiration. Have a great rollerblading!
my absolutely favorite one- slalom skating with or without stroller 🙂 excellent exercises!!! keep sharing your practise.
Sure, it’s true: slalom is the greatest hit for the lower part. Love it!
I just love rollerblading with my two daughters in the jogging stroller. I was kind of worried what people would think, like if they think im a bad mom for doing this, which some people think may be dangerous. But I am very safe when I do it i have the strap attached to my hands and it is so much fun for both me and my daughters.
Thanks for sharing, Rebecca! Indeed, rollerblading with the stroller is a real fun! And not to worry about the safety – yes, using a wrist strap and additional padding for the child’s heads is enough to make rollerblading safe! By the way, how do you feel rollerblading with a double stroller? It’s quite an exercise, isn’t it? I’ve been totally squeezed after an hour with my single stroller, I must admit:-)
I’ve got a message from Sandra Prince, who’s asking:
What is the name of the stroller with the tilted back wheels? I am interested in using a stroller to assist me in stability while rollerblading. I would not be pushing a child, but would put some weight in the seat to give added stability.
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Somehow my answer doesn’t come through the emails, so I publish it here (in case Sandra will see it):
Hi Sandra,
Thanks for asking! My stroller is a X-Lander stroller and the model called X-Run (produced in Poland) – can be found here:
http://x-lander.pl/en/produkty/56/xrun/
Unfortunately, they still not delivering to US:-(
I’ve done 3 years rollerblading with XRun – and yes, it’s very stable. Your idea of putting some extra weight seems interesting, just could you share – how are you going to make it? Just put stuff into the underneath basket? – I’ve never done this, actually.
My child was 9 months when I started rollerblading, so he was heavy enough. How old your child is?
Take care,
Lena
Hi!!! I love this idea and really want to make this my new workout with my little one who is 3months old. Can you recommend some skates and stroller? I will be using them on lake trails paved black, parks on Boardwalk. I live in San diego and this would be so fun!!! I hate to run. Thx
I used to rolerblade with a double stroller when my kids were little and then put my newfoundland in it when they were too big. I was in such great shape. Without little kids I have continued to rollerblade without the stroller and have fallen hard a few times and I now have the fear of falling and seem less stabile on the rollerblades as a result. I would like to but a new stroller and put maybe a large bag of sand in it. Does this sound corny? I just want my great legs and butt back and I really enjoyed rollerblading this way.
Great workouts!