Fitness Fridays - 7/7

curiousfool1 · July 2017

Morning Ladies!

Happy Friday to everyone. How are you feeling this week?

Weekends continue to be better for me. Saturday morning I got up and out for a great long walk with the dog. Sunday plans were nixed when I unexpectedly had to take over the family goat roast - my husband threw his back out trying to set the cover for the grill pit. Does hauling a 30lb goat around count as exercise? I say it does. Monday and Thursday I went for a morning run with the dog. The run felt great; my pace is definitely slower, but otherwise I was able to run steadily the whole 3 miles. This morning I took the dog for another long walk. I think I need to start reincorporating some upper body strength work. The first trimester and early second trimester I consistently did yoga 5 mornings a week before work, but it's been so beautiful outside lately the morning yoga has given way to morning walks/runs.

Only downside is that I'm in between fitting my pre-preg sports bras and larger size sports bras. I've been dealing with Reynauds of the Nipple, and really need much more compression support than I got this week! The post-run pain was really awful on Monday, lingering almost the whole day afterwards.

And for a little inspiration for next week, I'll leave you with this:

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slaven · July 2017

I haven't been exercising like I'd like to. The last month we were on vacation visiting family and I did nothing. We're settling in slowly in our new town and I've looked into prenatal yoga because I've noticed my flexibility is getting worse. There's also a local woman here who is a personal trainer with experience with pregnant and postpartum clients so I may schedule a few sessions with her. I haven't had a great workout schedule for months and being pregnant I don't want to start again but have improper form or something.

ineedsixeggs · July 2017

I ran a 5k with my husband's family for the 4th. I felt great during and after but every day since my ankle has been more and more painful so I will probably be taking another break from running for awhile.

I haven't been doing any yoga lately either so I really want to get back into that, and build more on my other home exercises.

Any time I don't have an event lined up that I'm preparing myself for is when my exercise habits really start slacking. So I'm trying to tell myself I'm training for labor.

liz4382 · July 2017

I feel like I did pretty good this week. My goal is usually 3 days of exercise a week. Monday I went to the gym--light weights, then 10 mins elliptical and 20 minutes walking major hills on the treadmill. I tried to do the recumbent bike to mix it up, but it just did not feel right (I'm tall and it felt like my strides were squishing my belly or something). Tues and today I did an hour of Zumba. I think baby has had a growth spurt this week because my belly felt heavier today and some of the side to side hip movements were harder than they were even on Tuesday.

My struggle with exercise is that I always have momentary anxiety where I worry that I'm working too hard, or bouncing baby around too much. Logically I know that baby is well protected in there (and I'm not even doing that much bouncing), but anxiety brain is hard to reason with!

jess0211 · July 2017

I only was able to fit in 3 workouts this week, feeling down about that. I've also been extra tired this week and had a touch of a stomach bug or something.

mymulligan · July 2017

@curiousfool1 kudos to you for all that exercise! And I would definitely say that hauling a goat counts! curious about your yoga - do you use a DVD or online instruction?

@liz4382 I feel the same way about twisting or working out too hard and harming the baby! Logically I know it's highly unlikely because of the type of exercise I'm doing but it weighs on me the whole time!

girlmomi2j17 · July 2017

My plan was to workout quite a bit this pregnancy since I gained close to 60 lbs with my daughter. I really don't want to gain that much again this time. Unfortunately, I am so exhausted that the most I've been able to do is take DD for a walk. We usually walk to the park and back which is only a mile. The past week I've had a horrible pain in my lower back on the right side so every time I take a step with my right leg, it hurts. Maybe I will try the elliptical and see if that helps

rachelb51212 · July 2017

I've been trying to keep up with my workouts. This past week I only managed a few days because we were out of town and I couldn't do any at the lake, although I did swim a bit so I guess that counts!

I've been having low back pain as well, but walking seems to help a bit. I'm considering going to a chiropractor, but I'll probably wait to see if it gets worse. I highly dislike seeing doctors.

foxaírt · July 2017

Midwife confirmed I'll need to stop getting pushed into my stretches so there goes my training only maintaining what I can do myself without assisted stretching .
Finding the reduced mobility really hard to cope with so might take up more yoga to compensate for the loss of more intense work and belly dance for muscle tone and cardio.

Currently still dancing 2 nights a week and training 3 nights a week . But want to introduce more pregnancy workout and prenatal yoga at home since the intensity of my regular exercise is reduced

kjhersch88 · July 2017

I've been doing BodyfitbyAmy prenatal workouts on YouTube. I love them! Did them almost my whole first pregnancy too.

curiousfool1 · July 2017

@mymulligan - I do both. I have used the power yoga DVDs and CDs from Bryan Kest for 14 years and love them; same recommendation for Seane Corn recorded teachings. I also try to take advantage of my library's digital/download databases: Overdrive carries several Shiva Rea recordings for live stream; Hoopla carries most of the Gaiam collection. My only criticism of Hoopla is that it breaks the Gaiam programs into individual segments, which you have to check out separately (My library limits Hoopla borrowings to 10 per month, so that adds up quickly).

Right now I have a membership to Yogaworks online, though I keep meaning to cancel. The classes are actually pretty decent. I'm just trying to save as much $$ as possible. Yogaworks does, however, have several prenantal classes for streaming.

There are several free yoga podcasts I've loved. Too many to name.

foxaírt · July 2017

kjhersch88 said:

I've been doing BodyfitbyAmy prenatal workouts on YouTube. I love them! Did them almost my whole first pregnancy too.

How have you found it ? As far as maintaining body condition and tone ?
I am not sure where to start on actual prenatal workouts my usual conditioning and training is already unusual so it's not really a matter of just amending or eliminating exercises I shouldn't be doing .
And every time t try and get advice for it I get told it's OK to go walking .pft I don't walk or run so probably shouldn't start but also don't see how that will in anyway subtitle for what I'm used to and so I'm left not really sure what's good and not
I know I shouldn't plank or crunch but most my abdominal conditioning is done on the pole anyway

liz4382 · July 2017

@foxaírt what about taking up another type of dance? Like ballet/barre or ballroom or something? I know it's not the same but you would still get some of the stretching and core work, just not the pushing yourself into the stretches that it sounds like your MW wanted you to ease up on. Might be the workout that is most similar and allows you to keep some of what you had before.

foxaírt · July 2017

@liz4382
Yea I'm going back to belly dance and looking into hoop and buugeng as a way of working with flow and movement . I used to do adult ballet and still incorporate the leg drills into my conditioning but there are no longer local classes
Still doing contortion classes twice a week at this point but have stopped assisted stretching (so I still train the areas but aren't being pushed further into the stretches by trainer) this is because of the relaxin which I subtly have started to feel the effects of in my pelvic bone and sacrum by way of a faint dull ach that isn't in any way painful just there so I think it's a good time to just stick to what I can do and not push into ligaments . Even doing this I'm finding my hips relax easier into splits so I'm progressing mindfully and midwife is happy for me to continue under my own steam and to keep up with yoga like practice .
I also teach flexibility which allows me to stretch a little with them in a less extremely way
So I'm still stretching at least 4 days a week even tho I have eased up . And still dancing two nights a week and started belly dance again from home on my usual day off which is keeping my muscle isolations familiar in place of any real core training .
Just hoping to go in as fit as I can so I don't loose too much in the 6 weeks post birth where I won't be able or probably even feel like doing anything, till I am all cleared to start again . Altho I think it'll be probably around 12 months to get back to proper contortion training with the lingering relaxin
It's all a gradual ajustment and very new as I've been lucky to never sustain an injury I'm not familiar with going backwards to go forward .

To be honest you are right any kind of dance will benefit as a whole body workout .and help maintain the movement I'm used to
I'm just holding onto the advice of what ever I'm comfortable with I can do and I'm trying to be kind and let myself let go when something is hard and not push through but stick to things I can manage

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