June 2018 Moms
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Fit Mom March Edition
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Happy Fit Friday Ladies! Here's Jane Fonda and her friend to guide you in your morning kegel exercises:
1. Anybody been working out recently?
2.Challenges/successes?
3.Is there any interest in expanding this thread to include general healthy goals (eating healthy, drinking water, weight gain in check, doing kegels, etc.)
1. Anybody been working out recently?
2.Challenges/successes?
3.Is there any interest in expanding this thread to include general healthy goals (eating healthy, drinking water, weight gain in check, doing kegels, etc.)
Re: Fit Mom March Edition
1. I traveled most of the week, but got a workout in today.
2. Workouts are is definitely getting more challenging. I'm having a harder time getting up and down from the ground. Squats are tougher and I'm lifting lighter with them. I'm winded walking up the two flights of stairs to get to my gym...so that is weird.
3. I think it makes sense to expand it. I know @doxiemoxie212 started a water thread, but I think participation fell off. Maybe if we include it here, we'll get more input??
1. AFM I'm still resting/recovering from a cold. I hope to get to a class tomorrow.
2. The last workout I did I was noticing pelvic floor strain starting to bother me when lifting weights or doing step cardio. I want to try to minimize the extra strain there but still get the benefits of exercise. I did google a couple pelvic floor exercises (other than kegels squats.)
3. We could also make it monthly and bump it on Fridays for check-ins.
What did you find for pelvic floor exercises??
Also, I think monthly works.
Bird dogs and hip bridges are good too. Hip bridges would probably be more comfortable on an incline or ball during pregnancy.
+1 to Old Navy though, they have a lot of actual maternity activewear options at decent prices.
After a giant flub where I signed up for a free trial and forgot to cancel, I've found myself a proud new year-long subscriber to Aaptiv, a fitness app that has audio workouts with playlists and a "trainer in your ear." I hadn't used it at all during the trial period, but the guilt over the $$$ made me cancel my classpass membership and start trying it. Turns out, they have a week-by-week maternity program and I'm really loving it! There are ~2 cardio and 2-3 strength workouts each week, and my new goal is to keep up with the program, at least for the next month or two.
Now if I could just quit taking down girl scout cookies like it's my job...
Fun story: I was doing squats this morning and very nearly peed my pants. I was legit running to the bathroom. Whoops!
Workouts are definitely getting harder for me. Things that used to be easy take a lot of effort and I'm backing down on weights, which is a little discouraging, but my trainer says it is normal and that I'm doing well.
As for my actual fitness I'm definitely slowing down but I'm still feeling benefits from what I'm doing and I know even though I'm the slow preggo lady doing a lighter workout I'm still setting myself up well for the 3rd tri, labor, and recovery. @LaceyBee522 the bladder struggles are real. I try to start class on an empty bladder and only drink a little during the workout. I also have to take a Zantac pre-workout so I don't get painful heartburn.
Yay! Glad you're both keeping up with a routine and making it work for where your bodies / energy levels are as we get further along. I'm so with you on both the bladder issues (many a jog has been slowed to a walk lest it become an emergency situation) and starting to tone things down -- standing up in spin class is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
@llamamama14 My first apartment in NYC was gross and I hated my bathroom so much I quickly got in the habit of showering at the gym in the morning. Having a reason to be there every day is such a help in establishing a workout habit, and free childcare plus girltalk sounds like pretty good reasons!
I'm still jogging but only 1-2 times a week, and there are plenty of walk breaks now (like @emiliadkay sometimes its because of the bladder...the other day I actually got off the treadmill twice in a 3 mile "run" to pee). I do get outside for at least 1 walk everyday the weather allows, and pushing the jogging stroller around my hilly neighborhood (while wrangling our boston terrier) for 2-3 miles definitely feels like a workout these days.
I have been going to a free workout group for moms (called No Excuse Moms). Its nice because I can bring my kiddo (no childcare though so thats sometimes a challenge) and get to socialize with other moms (I agree about that being a good incentive @llamamama14). I'm modifying the HIIT workouts a lot but its still pushing me to do stuff I wouldn't do on my own.
Its kind of funny that I feel pretty good working out most days but feel out of breath walking up a flight of stairs or bending over to pick up DS's toys 15 times a day...
Also- I edited the title of this thread to make it the March Fit thread. I'm thinking we can just do monthly.
Also, not sure if you have a chapter near you but a friend who lives in a rural area runs her chapter of "Hike it Baby" and has built a good group of mom friends around it.