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Exercise/Fitness Check-in - January
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I figured it's 2017 so time for a fit mama check-in! As always, all are welcome regardless of where you are on your fitness journey! Feel free to check in using the template below, or just write a quick note to tell us how you're doing.
1: How far along are you?
2: How was December for you fitness-wise?
3: What are your goals for the week/month ahead?
4: How are you going to treat yourself this week/celebrate your body and its accomplishments?
5: Rants/Raves/Questions/Anything else you want to add?
1: How far along are you?
2: How was December for you fitness-wise?
3: What are your goals for the week/month ahead?
4: How are you going to treat yourself this week/celebrate your body and its accomplishments?
5: Rants/Raves/Questions/Anything else you want to add?
Re: Exercise/Fitness Check-in - January
2.) my December was decent, but not excellent in terms of activity. January will be better!
3.) Right now I'm aiming for 10,000 steps per day. I have been using a Jawbone fitness tracker which I have had several years but my husband got me a nice new Fitbit Alta for Christmas and I like it much better. it really helps me stay accountable and motivated. I also signed up for prenatal yoga that starts the end of the month so that should be good too!
4.) I don't really have a way that I typically treat myself or celebrate my body and it's accomplishments. But I could really use a massage at this point haha.
5.) rant - it's getting tougher to stay active with this low back pain near my tail bone. I started seeing an osteopath this week for therapeutic massage and stretching so that should help!
2: How was December for you fitness-wise? Not terrible. Winter is really mild here, so I got a decent amount of lunchtime walking in. Insomnia is also helping me to get up early and lift weights, so... silver lining?
3: What are your goals for the week/month ahead? Try to incorporate more stretching/prenatal yoga into my fitness routine as I get closer to due date (I've tried a few videos of varying lengths but no classes yet). I've had some back pain flare-ups recently and it really seems to help with those. Also trying to get back on the healthy-eating track after Christmas break
4: How are you going to treat yourself this week/celebrate your body and its accomplishments? I'm gonna try to rest this weekend. Christmas break was wonderful but busy, and I can tell I need a weekend to put my feet up and take it easy (difficult for me, but I'm gonna try!) I also need to find a cute dress to wear to my shower in a few weeks, so I'll work on that this weekend.
@BabyBlake.04.2017 I got a prenatal massage gift certificate for Christmas (yay!) but was advised by my SIL to try waiting until later in third tri when I'm even *more* sore and *more* uncomfortable than I am now. I can't wait to use it though! I hope the stretching and massage help with your back pain!
5: Rants/Raves/Questions/Anything else you want to add? It's getting harder to stay active, but I'm gonna try! Come on ladies, we can do this!!
2: How was December for you fitness-wise? It was good. I missed a bunch of my classes being out of town but I picked them right up when we got back in town and have added prenatal yoga to the mix.
3: What are your goals for the week/month ahead? To go to yoga at least twice a week + continue my bi-weekly strength training class, and walk the dog everyday
4: How are you going to treat yourself this week/celebrate your body and its accomplishments? Honestly the yoga classes have been such a wonderful celebration of all the work I've put in with strength training. Doing a different exercise is showing me how much strength I've gained and that makes me really proud.
5: Rants/Raves/Questions/Anything else you want to add? Just that it's hard to find good quality maternity exercise pants...I did find some make-do yoga pants at my yoga studio so that's good but still annoying not have a ton of options.
2: How was December for you fitness-wise? Um. Cookies.
3: What are your goals for the week/month ahead? My husband made a New Year's resolution for us to go to the Y together once a week. I'd like to shoot for 3 times a week.
4: How are you going to treat yourself this week/celebrate your body and its accomplishments? I ordered some maternity workout clothes on sale from Old Navy.
5: Rants/Raves/Questions/Anything else you want to add? I finally went back to the gym this week, just for some treadmill walking and light weight lifting. Slow and steady, but it felt good!
Married: 12-04-06
Annabelle: 1-1-08
Patrick: 8-15-10
EDD: 4-20-17
1: How far along are you?
25 weeks tomorrow
2: How was December for you fitness-wise?
pretty good. Managed to keep running.
3: What are your goals for the week/month ahead?
keep running and stop eating left over Christmas cookies from the freezer!
4: How are you going to treat yourself this week/celebrate your body and its accomplishments?
I don't have anything planned.
5: Rants/Raves/Questions/Anything else you want to add?
occasionally I am getting bladder pain when I run depending on where the baby is positioned...I may have complained about this before...it's just getting on my nerves.
2: How was December for you fitness-wise?it was pretty good. Hit the gym a lot
3: What are your goals for the week/month ahead? Figuring out what works for me. I just started cramping every time I run, within a minute, so that's a big bummer
4: How are you going to treat yourself this week/celebrate your body and its accomplishments? I'm not
5: Rants/Raves/Questions/Anything else you want to add? Just the running thing is annoying. Right now I'm either walking on an incline or on the spinning bike
DD #2: May 2020
Baby #3: EDD May 2023; MC October 2022
@Beckyf321 Your cookies comment made me laugh! There were a lot of cookies involved in my December too; you're definitely not alone there.
@chelle087 Glad you're still able to run! I get a stitch in my side when just from walking pretty frequently so I'm super impressed.
@catem07 I am curious what a "spinning bin" is? Sorry to hear about the running.
2: How was December for you fitness-wise? It just wasn't. I was slowly emerging from always being sick for the first 14-16 weeks or so and then it's taken me a bit to get back in the habit.
3: What are your goals for the week/month ahead? DH really wanted a gym membership so I'm with him for solidarity. I have a complete reimbursement through work if I make it 12 times. If not, DH and I both agreed the money to pay for the gym comes out of our "allowance" so that's a good motivator. I got a friend to join so we are going to some classes together.
4: How are you going to treat yourself this week/celebrate your body and its accomplishments?
5: Rants/Raves/Questions/Anything else you want to add? I had to switch to prenatal yoga because the program I use needed too many modifications. It's ok, but feels slow.
I think I peed myself about 12 times during Zumba last night.
DH: 36
Married 5 years
DD born 8/30/13
#2 expected 4/25/17
DD #2: May 2020
Baby #3: EDD May 2023; MC October 2022
Married: 12-04-06
Annabelle: 1-1-08
Patrick: 8-15-10
EDD: 4-20-17