How hard do you workout when TTC/1st tri?

thechickencoop · September 2014

This will be our first cycle TTC (woop woop) and I just really started a gym regimen about 6 weeks ago. I usually go 3x/week, one class will be fine, it's a cycle/core class so it's not too intense, but the other two I do are pretty hard, one's a 360 and one's a circuit type class. Both of those leave me just d.o.n.e. and achy for at least 2 days after. So do you just keep your same level or should I dial it down a little? I know it obviously can vary but just wondering what everyone does since this is really my first foray into working out like, ever.

vlagrl29 · September 2014

If you have a workout regimen that you did pre pregnancy you can continue while you are pregnant. My goal would be to still practice yoga during my next pregnancy, but if I'm puking as much as last time, it probably won't happen

cmrand4 · September 2014

Talk with your dr. Mine said that I shouldn't be doing lifting so hard that I grunt or cardio so hard I can't talk. I jogged two miles this am and have been doing my regular weights routine at the gym which includes more reps than particularly heavy weights. I'm just now feeling like I have enough energy to work out so enjoying exercising again. One more thing, after 1st tri, dr said don't lie flat on your back.

Cherryblossoms07 · September 2014

I would talk to your doctor. I did boot camp 4x a week prior to getting pregnant with both kids and was told to continue as usual during the first trimester.

trizzie · September 2014

TTC - I kept up my same program. When I got pregnant, I stopped. But, I have a history of miscarriage and was told to take it easy the first tri.

HelloClarice · September 2014

With my second I had just finished training for/running a half marathon when I got pregnant. I kept up my routine and went to the gym 5 days a week through my entire pregnancy. I just listened to my body. Running started to get uncomfortable after a while so I switched to spin class, etc. My OB was totally fine with it (there were no underlying medical issues other than AMA, and whatever to that). Said heart rate, etc didn't matter, just listen to my body.

raraavis28 · September 2014

My working out pre-pregnancy and during 1st tri were mainly walking and biking, though I easily went miles. Ditto PPs to ask your doctor; mine was very supportive of me getting as much exercise as possible as long as it wasn't anything more strenuous than I was used to.

MesmrEwe · September 2014

I was an internationally competitive powerlifter when I got PG with DS - The week I found out I was PG I set national records in competition. They would have been higher but I found out I was PG and told "no straining" so 440lb. deadlift stalled out at my knees and not allowed to grind it the rest of the way, there it sat.

The rule is - you don't train like a knucklehead when you aren't pregnant, don't train like one when you are either! Listen to your body, nothing more nothing less.

I've got friends who lifted until the week they delivered, granted, it wasn't anything to write home about, but they did it. I also know instructors who were at full term and still teaching their classes, I also know marathon runners who kept running up until the end of their PG's. I competed on the platform until the 16 week mark and earned top female lifter by formula in a field of 26 women then lifted for the sake of lifting until an unrelated complication took me out. But the week before that complication I was still deadlifting 315 and benching 210... For me that wasn't anything to write home about, but it's the idea of the importance of listening to your body at all times and not being a knucklehead (I always had spotters, my training partners never let me do anything I wasn't "there" for that day, they'd cut me off if they thought I was overdoing it even if I felt like I wasn't when the need arose...)

MesmrEwe · September 2014

P.s. the "no straining" was for the pelvic region only... Also referencing the "no grunting" above- who grunts when they lift other than to tell the "Baggage handlers" to back the heck away from the bench/rack you're using that day... As for the laying on your back - again listen to your body - my OB said "your body will let you know when you can't lay on your back anymore - until then go about your normal activities and sleep habits"...

P.S.S. - The complication took me out at the 32 week mark - Another couple weeks and I'd have lifted in another competition just to say it could be done.

thechickencoop · September 2014

MesmrEwe said:
I was an internationally competitive powerlifter when I got PG with DS - The week I found out I was PG I set national records in competition. They would have been higher but I found out I was PG and told "no straining" so 440lb. deadlift stalled out at my knees and not allowed to grind it the rest of the way, there it sat.
The rule is - you don't train like a knucklehead when you aren't pregnant, don't train like one when you are either! Listen to your body, nothing more nothing less.
I've got friends who lifted until the week they delivered, granted, it wasn't anything to write home about, but they did it. I also know instructors who were at full term and still teaching their classes, I also know marathon runners who kept running up until the end of their PG's. I competed on the platform until the 16 week mark and earned top female lifter by formula in a field of 26 women then lifted for the sake of lifting until an unrelated complication took me out. But the week before that complication I was still deadlifting 315 and benching 210... For me that wasn't anything to write home about, but it's the idea of the importance of listening to your body at all times and not being a knucklehead (I always had spotters, my training partners never let me do anything I wasn't "there" for that day, they'd cut me off if they thought I was overdoing it even if I felt like I wasn't when the need arose...)

:-O

Woah.

bumpuser924057 · September 2014

My ab muscles got a serious workout from all the vomiting. :-bd

cmrand4 · September 2014

MesmrEwe said:

P.s. the "no straining" was for the pelvic region only... Also referencing the "no grunting" above- who grunts when they lift other than to tell the "Baggage handlers" to back the heck away from the bench/rack you're using that day... As for the laying on your back - again listen to your body - my OB said "your body will let you know when you can't lay on your back anymore - until then go about your normal activities and sleep habits"...
P.S.S. - The complication took me out at the 32 week mark - Another couple weeks and I'd have lifted in another competition just to say it could be done.

ya, I didnt know what my ob meant by that either. She's very out of shape, heavy gal so maybe she has no idea about exercise.

thechickencoop · September 2014

Ok thanks guys

I'm not even gonna worry about it, and I have my yearly check up next month anyway so I can get more specifics from her then. Although we are missing the gym today since DS has an awful snotty cold and is just miserable....*sigh*

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