Fifty-two days of front and back, mamas. Today we finally do the sides.

✨ TODAY’S MISSION
✓💨 10 slow 360° Breaths
✓🌊 8 Side-Lying Leg Lifts (each side) — NEW
✓🪲 8 Sliding Dead Bug (each side)
✓🧺 3 × 30 steps Loaded Carry (each side)
✓🚶‍♀️ 12 Standing March (each side) — weaker side first
✓🍑 8 Glute Bridges + 2 Single-Leg — 7-second hold
✓🚶‍♀️ Walk — 9,000 steps
✓🌙 Belly massage before bed

🌊 SIDE-LYING LEG LIFT — YOUR NEW ONE

Lie on your side. Bottom knee bent for support. Top leg straight, in line with your body — not forward.

Hips stacked, one directly above the other.

Exhale and lift the top leg to about hip height — no higher. Inhale and lower slowly, without letting it rest all the way down.

1️⃣ Hips stay stacked. The moment the top hip rolls backwards, you’ve made it easier and stopped working the right muscle.
2️⃣ Leg lifts sideways, not forwards. If it drifts in front of you, your hip flexors have taken over.
3️⃣ Hip height is plenty. Higher is not better here.

Start at 8. It’ll burn somewhere you’ve never felt before — that’s your lateral core waking up after years off.

🌟 MINI CHALLENGE — WHICH HIP DO YOU STAND ON?

Catch yourself three times today. At the counter. Waiting for the kettle. Holding your baby. Almost all of us drop into one hip. Years of it pulls the pelvis sideways and loads one side of the midline more than the other. Don’t fix it, mamas. Just notice. Reply with which hip. 💛

Nutrition today 🥗
• Curd. Buttermilk. Idli or dosa batter. A little pickle.
• 🥬 Half your plate — veggies
• 🍗 A quarter — protein
• 🌾 A quarter — carbs
• 💧 Sip water through the day 💛

📌 TODAY’S FOCUS

Fifty-two days, mamas. Week 8.

You’ve spent nearly eight weeks getting good at this, and today one new movement will humble you. Eight small leg lifts and there’s a muscle burning you genuinely didn’t know you had.

That’s not a sign you’ve been doing it wrong. Your core is three-dimensional — front, back and sides. The sides are what hold you steady every time you carry a baby on one hip, and they’re the part almost every programme skips.

New muscle, same rules. Small, slow, exhale on effort. 💪💛