Our story really kicked off when our eldest was a toddler. After he was born, getting back into regular exercise was… well, a bit of a mission. First challenge: finding a gym with a crèche. That helped for a while — until the winter sniffles hit. One runny nose and suddenly we were back at home, trying to make workouts fit around nap times and tired little bodies.

Home workouts sounded perfect… until our teething toddler started biting chunks out of the foam equipment and trying to pick up weights bigger than him. Add baby number two, then number three, and exercise windows became tiny. I tried giving them toys to keep them busy, but of course they just wanted to copy what Mum was doing.

With one kid waking up at the crack of dawn and two who thought sleep was optional, I needed a way to blend fitness into our everyday family life — something that worked with the chaos, not against it.

And that’s how Gymlings was born. A simple idea: make movement part of family life, not something you have to squeeze in around it.