Crossfitting & Pregnant Guidelines

Re: Crossfitting & Pregnant Guidelines

• drtaylor929 member

  April 2015

  I am still doing CF and currently 15 weeks. I have been doing CF for about a year and a half prior to getting pregnant so I was told that I can continue to do what I have done prior. Pay attention to your body, make sure you drink water before during and after the work out and take more breaks than usual. Personally - I get out of breath quicker now that I am pregnant so the breaks help Focus on staying healthy while pregnant - you're not trying to PR or pushing for the best time on some WODs. Eventually you will start to scale your weight and moves. Check out crossfitmom.com - its a great resource and explains scaling for each trimester and moves. 

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• kam626 member

  April 2015

  dido what pp has said. monitor your breathing. a good piece of advice i was given was to sing to the songs playing at our box or make sure you can hold a conversation. the hr advice was given to me too, but is hard to follow even with a modified workout. i switched from running to rowing though i know other women who did continue to run. i kept my weight moderate. you can essentially do whatever you were doing prior to pregnancy bc your body is already used to it, with the exception of heavy lifting. listen to your body, if it doesnt feel right then stop. we have a couple of coaches at our box who did crossfit up until the day before delivery. i went up to about a week or two. definitely check out crossfit moms, it really helped when our workouts were too difficult to modify.

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