Hi guys!
So many people warned me about this, but I had no idea what I was about to embark on. What am I talking about? The complex and never ending, always changing schedules of my child’s extracurricular activities. Ha! That’s a mouthful. But seriously. So many of my friends told me that once my daughter, Molly, started kindergarten that I would go from an “overtired, at-home with my kids during a pandemic mom” to a personal chauffeur to my kids for all the different activities. I knew I’d be driving to some things, but I never realized just how overwhelming all the schedules could be, and how much I needed to get organized.
Crazy Schedules & Time to Get Organized
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Honestly, even with Riley! We got him into a great preschool so they even have after school activities that you can sign up for on different days. It’s so so so great. Riley’s going to be taking Spanish and art at his preschool and Molly is going to start doing ballet and cross country running! Then there are late drop off on Mondays at Molly’s school and early pickups on other days, and same with Riley’s school. I just can’t keep it all straight!
Last week I was late for picking up Molly from school and it was so awful! I completely forgot she had early pick up until the last minute, seriously to the point where I jumped out of the shower and basically threw on a robe to get in the car to make sure I wouldn’t be late for getting her. I know being late is not the end of the world, but it upset her, so I’m trying not to be even one minute late.
Organization Was Needed!
Anyway, given all this, I needed something to help me organize all of these activities! I was at home feeling super overwhelmed and feeling like I was honestly failing a little bit as a parent because I was messing things up. So at that point I realized I needed a system going, and I needed it right then! Ha! I jumped on Walmart’s website to order from my local store for same-day delivery. I ordered a dry erase board calendar, dry erase markers, socks for Riley because he had outgrown all of his (I’ve been putting size 24 months socks on him for the past few months), packing tape because I’m continuing to pack up boxes in our rental, glue sticks for Molly because crafts are never-ending over here and a few other things.
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Some of the other items could’ve waited, but I needed that dry erase board right away. I ordered it yesterday and it was delivered to my door just a few hours later! Honestly, I needed organization right then and there, and started immediately on getting everything in order so that there was no more confusion in my household!
And it was so helpful to get all this right away! In fact, this is one of my absolute favorite things about my Walmart+ membership. Free same-day delivery from your local store if you spend $35 or more (restrictions apply). I can’t even count how many times this has come in handy, and not to mention they are the same prices as if you were shipping in-store.
Sure, there are places where you can get expedited shipping or some things arrive in a few days – and with my Walmart+ membership I have free shipping with no order minimum from Walmart.com (excludes Marketplace items, location & freight surcharges) RBut to be able to get something same-day from my local store, dropped right at my door just makes my Walmart+ membership above and beyond anything else out there!
Making Life Easier
I don’t know what it is but life just seems to be getting busier and busier. Maybe I got too used to being home all the time during the pandemic, but I honestly find it a struggle to get out to the store sometime so having this benefit with my Walmart+ membership is amazing! Not only do you get free same-day delivery ($35 minimum, exclusions apply) with the membership but, with their member prices on fuel, you can save 5 cents per gallon on fuel at all Walmart and Murphy stations. There are over 1,500 locations throughout the country. Gas can get so expensive so I will take that 5 cent savings!!! Every little bit adds up, especially when you fill your tank!
Another really cool benefit about being a member is that you can use the mobile Scan & Go feature benefit on their app. You can scan an item while you’re in the store and pay for it and walk out. So it’s contact free check out and you get to check out quickly in the self-checkout area which is pretty awesome. I’m all for anything that helps save me time also keeps me and my family safer as we endure more of this pandemic.
I encourage you to use all those other incredible benefits, but the free same-day delivery from my local store is more than enough for me to absolutely love being a member and I will be for life! I’ll put the link to sign up here but I linked it multiple times and this blog post.
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More Ways I Hope to Stay Organized
Here’s how I am hoping to stay organized with my dry erase board. First, I color-coded it so that every person in the family had a different color for their schedule. This makes looking at it quickly even more efficient, because I know if I look and see purple then Molly has something going on, and if it is orange then Kevin does, etc! This keeps me on track with who in my family has what going on, and my own personal schedule too! I also LOVE the magnets this dry erase board comes with to mark birthdays, date night, vacations, appointments and more
I even ordered extra little magnets to add to the board on days where I know I’m going to need a sitter or help picking one of the kids up! Because we only have one car right now, sometimes they both need to be picked up at the same time in different locations and I needed a way to simplify that. Now, when I look at the board in the morning and there is a magnet, I know I need to check in with the sitter Kevin or whoever else is picking up the kids to make sure it’s all set. Do you have any other helpful organization tips for hectic schedules?
Do You Have Tips For Me?
Before I go, any other tips for me on how to keep all of the schedules organized? Obviously the calendar dedicated to the activities is going to help a lot. But if any of you have any other tips or tricks since I’m new at this, I would be so appreciative! Tell me the comments below!
And as always I want to thank Walmart for being such a great sponsor for my site.
I’m sorry, but you can buy dry erase markers, glue sticks and tape in dollar tree shop and you don’t need to pay shipping if you don’t want to spend $30 just to get a free shipping. Regarding the board, I use Google calendar and it’s on my phone, it gives me notifications and you can schedule then minutes before the event occurs. Easy to use. Sorry you didn’t sell that to me
But for those of us choosing not to go into stores during the pandemic it’s super helpful to know you can get things same day. I do it all the time. Not everyone can or wants to drive to a shop when they need something that day. Or do you mean dollar store ships for free same day in the US?
I don’t know if it ships or not, but you can get cheaper markers, glue sticks in dollar tree store, where everything is under $1. I think it’s not worth it at least for me. Plus you get free shipping if you spend $30, which is not a good deal for me. It’s just my opinion.
Hi Veronika. I am not sure if you noticed but the glue sticks that she linked are 25 cents – so definitely competitive with any dollar type store that you’re referring to. 🙂
Also, just for some clarification in case it helps… it’s $35 minimum for SAME DAY delivery from a local store in your area (not shipping) to your home. So if you can’t run out for some reason, that is why you’d utilize same-day delivery. Think of it like food delivery, but for regular household items.
Regular shipping with a Walmart+ membership is free, without the $35 minimum.
Hope this helps!
Just take a breath and dont overwhelm yourself. U got this Ali
You might want to have a planner to carry with you and you can always put info for the next month or several months ahead.
I sit down every Sunday with a notebook and my planner and go through the whole week. It helps me to know what is scheduled so that I know when I have time to do errands or other things that can be squeezed in when I have a break in the schedule. I find that very helpful and stress reducing. Also, a bit of advice, I’m a grandmother now so I’ve been through the crazy times, please don’t be so hard on yourself, if you’re a few minutes late it’s really not a big deal in the long run. Don’t make a big deal of it to the kids either. They will feed off of your anxiety about it. You’re doing a great job, they’re both happy and most importantly, alive! That means you’ve had success. Be better to yourself and relax, you don’t need to be perfect.
Have you synced up yours and hubby’s google calendars so you know who has what drop-off and pick-up?
My first thought was one activity at a time. Especially with 2 children. We stuck to that with our son and never had that overwhelming have to be everywhere feeling. I see you have 2 activities for each child. I think you might rethink that after these activities end. Good luck!
And building a robust set of biceps can only help you
to get stronger total, as all pulling movements
(essential for training the big muscle tissue in your back) will reap the rewards
of your focused work. You shouldn’t must do 15 reps till you feel the
“burn,”; at least not on an everyday basis. In reality, be at
liberty to even use a heavy load with 6 reps for the isolation movements.
A enjoyable “game” for this is to perform reps of 6 whereas including weight till you discover your 6RM for a curl.
Simply because you technically can only use light weights for muscle progress doesn’t imply you want to.
Even with probably the most determined will, virtually every lifter will use their
legs and back to carry the bar throughout biceps curls.
This exercise eliminates all potentialities of dishonest
and likewise keeps your biceps underneath
constant tension to deliver a superb higher arm exercise.
You’ll discover the workouts alternate between pushing and pulling actions,
so we can produce most results with minimal time.
Do not relaxation between exercises, and rest only
briefly between sets. The TRX bicep curl is a simple yet effective
exercise for rising the scale of your higher arms.
It’s additionally extremely versatile because as soon as the
common model that you’re about to see becomes too simple, you’ll find a way to perform it
one arm at a time to double the problem.
Add somewhat spice to your workout with this bicep variation that could be a favorite for Scott and regularly used in her
Tone It Up Strength program. The JM press is
a complicated train that requires some follow to grasp.
Newbies should do that train with an empty EZ-bar until they have drilled the
train movement mechanics. As a personal trainer with over seven years in the trenches, I believe that the curl bar, also
called the EZ bar, is considered one of the most missed coaching gear.
If you don’t imagine you could build muscle
by just using forceful contractions like this, read our article on mind muscle connection. Cable
and band curls are additionally more joint-friendly than their free weight equivalents as a
end result of they require much less stabilization and
thus place less strain in your joints and connective tissue structures.
In other words, you often simply need extra dimension to make the
definition more seen and prominent. To illustrate, it’s no
good doing additional sets if they’re all 7-8 reps away from failure.
If you already have a low physique fat stage but still lack the biceps definition that
you’re after, then there’s a good likelihood that your biceps merely need extra general mass.
And as a end result of both are additionally unilateral, they’ll make your biceps look extra symmetrical and
aesthetic along with big and muscular.
Overhand pull-ups/pulldowns practice your biceps at slightly longer muscle lengths,
in order that they might be simply as efficient. This is one of
the best bicep exercise for mass if you’re an intermediate or
superior lifter. The routine blasts your biceps, brachialis, and brachioradialis from each angle to guarantee
that no muscle fiber is left understimulated. As a rule of thumb, 3-4 units of your chosen rep
range can lead to muscle growth. A recent systematic review discovered that one of the
best hypertrophy outcomes got here from units per muscle per week.
Nevertheless, there was a minimum efficient dose of four sets per muscle group per week.
The best full body exercise routine is 3 instances per week because you’ll have simply three exercises per week with four days
of relaxation between your workouts, which is right for a
newbie routine. For the newbie lifter, this kind of coaching
will help maximize muscle achieve until your
fitness stage is ready for more advanced exercises.
When you increase in experience ranges, you can choose a unique type of coaching
cut up (such as a 5-day exercise routine like push pull
legs) to assist you continue to progress in your health journey.
If you’re nonetheless aiming to add mass in all places with out the specialization, add it to an upper
or push day following any big pressing movements. Cables are a fantastic alternative,
offering stability and tension through a bigger vary of motion. This
might help you absolutely shorten the triceps without the caveat of a really restricted vary, as seen in dumbbell kickbacks.
The applicable weight for dumbbells when coaching your triceps is dependent upon your present power and health level.
Sure, you’ll have the ability to positively build your triceps utilizing only dumbbells.
Dumbbells are a versatile tool for focusing on and
developing the triceps muscles successfully. This microcycle is comparatively
low triceps volume and units could presumably be added to any of the selected workout routines to increase volume if wanted.
That implies that you can’t go overboard along with your biceps
work, or you risk overtraining. At the same time, you
want enough stimulus to trick your biceps into development.
The machine bicep curl is, in essence, a sort of preacher curl, but it goes one
step additional and removes any balance requirements. That makes it
a perfect finishing exercise for an excellent pump
at the end of a workout. Regardless of whether you curl both dumbbells concurrently
or one by one, make certain you’re not using
upper-body momentum to swing them up. The dumbbell curl may be carried out standing or
seated, whichever you like.
It’s finest to not do full physique four instances per
week because your muscle tissue need a rest day in between to recover and develop.
A 3-day full body exercise schedule works greatest
because it permits for adequate rest time between workouts.
Following the earlier train selection is our carry motion, but as
a substitute of carrying down at our sides we’re
going to do an Overhead Farmer’s Carry. You should feel plenty
of postural engagement and you’ll find it’s a problem to keep your
arms as upright and straight as attainable.
The biceps are arguably the preferred muscle within the human physique.
Ask even a child to point out you a muscle, and they’ll probably increase their arms and begin flexing like a bodybuilder.
These push-ups distribute the motion to your entrance half,
giving your biceps a harder exercise. A complete chest and bicep routine that hits the
targeted muscle teams from all totally different angles for the best results in the form of muscle features and power.
If you would possibly be looking for an exercise that may construct muscle and power while additionally burning a ton of energy, the dumbbell thruster
is it. Like many triceps exercises, this could put on on the elbows if done an extreme quantity of or too
heavy. Performing these one by one, lowering the weight to the
opposite side of the chest, can help the mind-muscle connection. Constructing large triceps
should be simple, as long as you have the best exercises – this contains using dumbbells.
Triceps dumbbell workouts are a certain method to add mass and power to your triceps because of
their distinctive benefits.
By squeezing your arms and specializing in the mind-muscle connection between you and your biceps, you slowly carry out a biceps curl using simply your
body weight. To get the most out of this train, you must do your greatest to
supply maximum rigidity. You all know push-ups practice the chest, triceps, and shoulders and have great core stability benefits.
But if you transfer the alignment of your arms by reversing then produces more elbow flexion which
will get the biceps extra concerned. This is an advanced push-up variation that places extra strain on the wrist and
anterior shoulder so ease into this one with fewer reps and good kind.
Biceps is the Latin term for two-headed muscle and the bicep is the main muscle of the anterior higher
arm. The biceps quick head begins on the scapula (near the ball and socket
joint) and inserts into the forearm bone the radius.
If constructing your biceps isn’t your only objective, then EZ bicep curls might be a great
train for building total body strength, which is able to benefit your
form throughout many other free-weight workouts.
In the remainder of the article, we’ll go into extra depth, discuss the most effective biceps workouts,
and offer you examples of good biceps workouts you can do with dumbbells, barbells, cables, or at a
full health club. A complete biceps exercise makes use of a mix of bars and dumbbells so that you just can focus on building mass
and growing muscle symmetry. You also wants to embrace workout routines, as mentioned above, that definitely price the brachioradialis so that your arm muscles are in proportion with one another.
On the other hand, you can make a powerful case for dumbbell curls being the one greatest
bicep train as a end result of they enable you to supinate your wrists to a greater degree than barbells do.
Fairly merely, sitting there curling away each week won’t be doing much.
It sounds boring, however patience is a advantage, and besides, it’s
bloody necessary. The enhance in temperature will help cut back the chance of rips and tears and deliver extra red blood cells – and subsequently oxygen and nutrients – to the muscle while it’s working.
The lengthy head originates from a cavity in the scapula referred to as the glenoid, passing
by way of the shoulder joint to the higher arm.
The short head arises from a projection on the scapula referred to as the coracoid.
So inform that to the following one that smirks at you once
they see you in your third set of curls.
You may go even decrease on the larger pulling exercises (e.g.
chin-ups for 4–6 reps). You could additionally go as
excessive as 30–40 reps when doing biceps curls,
especially if you’re doing Blood Flow Restriction (BFR).
Cable curls are some of the underrated bicep building exercises that you are in a place to do in the
health club. Unlike free weight movements, cable curls
blast your biceps with fixed muscle-building pressure whereas additionally taking some strain off your
joints. Focus on dragging your elbows behind your torso whereas concurrently moving your palms toward your shoulders to get the best results.
Strap your self in and arm your self with the information of
these variations to take to the nearest health club with full-length mirrors to admire
your helpful work. Hold reading to find out extra about every of these workout
routines and the means to perform each one appropriately.
Huge biceps – they look good, they present energy, and just about each fitness center
bro wants them. If you want a customizable workout program (and full guide) that builds in these principles, check out our Bony to
Beastly (men’s) program and Bony to Bombshell (women’s) program.
So on this regard, they’re top-of-the-line movements for growing overall arm mass and bodyweight
power. If you have good lactic acid tolerance but lack conventional fitness center tools, then that is
one of the best bicep superset for you. Whether Or Not you’re chasing 3D arms nearly
as good as CBum’s, or you want to add lbs to your bench press, these are the most effective
arm workout routines to assist you get there.
You’ll be beginning with barbell curls to concentrate on constructing total mass.
Then, you’ll hit some hammer curls to build your brachialis and brachioradialis, which,
as we established earlier, are two generally neglected muscle teams.
Lastly, you’ll do dumbbells curls to ensure
that both of your arms obtain equal work and thus
grow kind of in proportion with each other. The straight bar
curl is a kind of fundamental bicep exercises that simply keeps on producing features irrespective of how robust you get.
Hence, it makes a wonderful addition to a complicated bicep
exercise as well as a beginner one. Not Like its dumbbell
counterpart, the barbell curl lets you overload your biceps with the heaviest potential resistance, so it’s excellent for
building mass.
Performing hammer curls with the TRX works your brachialis and brachioradialis muscle tissue in addition to your biceps.
As such, you’ll discover it easier than the common bicep curl as a end result of you’re lifting
your body weight with more muscular tissues. Adding
barbell exercises into your arm workouts can effectively construct strength and muscle in your biceps, triceps, and forearms.
This biceps exercise for newbies is easy yet highly efficient for building muscle.
Again, feel free to take the biceps exercises and do them as a stand-alone workout or as a half of your again or chest exercise.
As A Substitute, you depend on your back exercises to deal with your biceps, too.
To perform body weight curls, you need something to attach TRX-style bands to that will hold your
weight. TRX (Total-Body Resistance Exercise) is a specific model and not
an inexpensive one at that, however you can use gymnastic rings, which are
very fairly priced, as a substitute. The biceps might be a small muscle, nevertheless it holds a particular place within the hearts of many,
even outside fitness and bodybuilding.
The biceps have two origins, that means they’ve two uppermost attachment websites.
The short head originates on the scapula or shoulder blade, whereas the long head
originates simply above the shoulder joint.
These two attachments merge to kind a single muscle stomach, which inserts onto the radius, which is the larger of your two forearm bones.
While cheat curls will not be one of the best bicep exercise for everybody, they could possibly be a great choice for knowledgeable lifters who’re focused on progressive overload.
I suggest utilizing cheat curls sparingly and with good type to
maximise their advantages. “Biceps are a big contributor to all of your pull movements,” says Liam Grimley, PT
and co-founder of 432 Health Platform.
The bench press involves all of the muscle fibers of your
pecs and is among the finest, if not the finest, chest exercises
for power and muscle mass. It is commonly referred to as the
king of upper body workouts, and for an excellent purpose.
Beginning your exercise with a barbell train ensures you must
use heavier weights for optimum gains.
When it involves body weight biceps workouts, it is useful but
not important to have a couple of tools useful. Here are
a couple of of our favorite implements to have round for
body weight exercises. This superior bicep exercise consists of lactic-acid inducing sets and is not
for the faint-hearted—novice lifters, stay away.
Likewise, you presumably can at all times put on a weighted
vest and some ankle weights and carry out heavier, low-rep units, which would undoubtedly be simpler in your cardiovascular system.
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