Crunches/Ab work safe??

Question

Im 4wks pregnant, just found out a few days ago! I'm nervous about exercise because I read that you should not do crunches while pregnant....but I'd like to strengthen my core muscles to prepare for rest of this pregnancy and eventual labor. Any suggestions??

Answer

You can still do abs until it is uncomfortable. I still do planks, and crunches just not full on sit ups and I’m 27weeks I still kept my whole work out routine and used lighter weight if I needed to. I still run 4 miles a day. So if you were pretty active before you should be able to continue what Your doing unless you become high risk or don’t feel right doing it

Answer

I stopped doing ab work as soon as I found out I was pregnant because I didn’t want to risk getting diastasis recti. I still do exercises that engage my deep core (squats, deadlifts, bird dogs, etc) but I don’t work my abs specifically. The blog Diary of a Fit Mommy has some great posts about pregnancy safe core exercises.

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I also stopped doing ab work and started following goodfortheswole on Instagram. She posts great pregnancy core workouts that are safe for DR.

Crunches/Ab work safe??

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