*NOTE* The winner of last week’s Picot Pilates giveaway is Commenter #6 Renee Hesseling. Congratulations! I know you’ll love it! (Please email us at info [at] peekaboopicks.com with your shipping info.)
I bought my exercise ball about six months ago with some of my leftover birthday money. I’d been considering the purchase for a […]

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Sarah Picot is a professional dancer and Pilates instructor who runs a Pilates studio out of her home in Arlington, Virginia. She has created an award-winning Pilates series that is geared especially toward pregnant and post-partum women, and her new book, Pregnancy and Pilates, is a pregnancy journal and a workout system in […]

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My current workout gear is embarrassing. Seriously, it hurts to even think about it. When I have a "dance party" with my kids or turn on a Tae Bo DVD, I usually don a pair of bleach-stained pants and a boring sports bra that probably isn’t as supportive as it should be. Working out […]

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One of the last areas to bounce back into shape after childbirth is the stomach. The day after giving birth to my first child, I looked in the mirror, startled and dismayed at the squishy mass of tissue where my stomach used to be. I sat down on the hospital bed, fighting tears. I […]

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One of the most common complaints I hear from moms who are trying to get in shape is that they simply don’t have the time to exercise on a regular basis. Let’s face it: as moms, we often spend so much time taking care of everyone else that we forget to take care of […]

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I have fond memories of the old bathroom scale in my aunt Betty’s basement. At some point during each of my visits, my cousin, Jared, and I would race down the steps, both of us eagerly anticipating our turn on the scale. It was a playful competition, and the winner was the child who weighed […]

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