Anyone have exercise ideas??

Question

Hey ladies of Glow...anyone have any easy indoor exercises to recommend for a pregnant woman. Between the cold and the polar night I need to find some easy body weight exercises as I lose motivation to trudge to the gym this time of year. Thanks in advance!!

Answer

I would Google yoga for pregnancy, Zumba videos, dancing and stepping in place type of things, probably not too much impact, you can always modify moves as well, where are they probably have YouTube videos for exercise during pregnancy everything is on the Internet sweetie you can do pretty much anything that you previously did before you got pregnant. Obviously don’t try and lift the refrigerator or anything like that, but if you were a runner, you walked, you did weight training, just nothing too heavy or strenuous, you can do wall push-ups, instead of getting on the floor you use your body weight with your hands against the wall, you do modifications of exercises if they are difficult for you, you can exercise laying in bed, do leg lifts on your side, you can get on your knees if you can on the bed and do fire hydrants and donkey kicks for leg exercises, obviously I would stay away from abdominal exercise. Walking is probably your best bet, it’s low impact, step together step together to some music and dance around, there’s no need for jumping or any of that stuff that’s high impact, you can definitely do arm exercises, maybe some hand weights that are 1 to 5 pounds, shoulder hand arms etc. but basically anything except abdominal crunches and things like that planking or anything that would put any stress on your belly like sit ups etc. You got a find what works best for you.￼￼￼ you can do modified exercise videos, instead of jumping jacks you just move your arms and step your foot outward and do one leg at a time, I know women who did Zumba until they delivered, because they were used to it and they did it all along. Any jumping type of movements you just modify them to not include the jumping but still doing the movements instead of doing lunches or something like that would be difficult for you to get up from you just step forward and back instead of doing the full lunch, once your belly gets heavier it’s going to be more difficult with your center of gravity to be able to get down low obviously to do a squat,￼ and as the baby puts more pressure on your bladder, you may need to wear a pad anytime you cough or sneeze or laugh, it’s pretty normal to P yourself a little, because the baby puts more pressure in the more gain weight you have it also puts pressure on your bladder. Also know that you need to drink water even though I know you want to avoid it so you don’t have to pee so much but you can actually get kidney stones if you don’t drink water. And they say that kidney stones is as painful of as labor itself so keep that in mind and it’s actually pretty common for women to get kidney stones during pregnancy. Jenny McCarthy has a book about all the things that no one talks about during pregnancy from Pooping the table, constipation, you name it. Might be a good rate and it’s pretty funny books a little eye-opening and a little scary the things that are on the horizon but it’s the reality that most people don’t talk about things that what to expect when you’re expecting books doesn’t mention.￼￼ I wish you all the luck, you may not even feel like exercising if you have morning sickness and exhaustion and it’s hard to breathe and it’s hard to sleep etc. you do whatever you are comfortable doing, good luck

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You can always do like squats, lunges, planks, wall sits, leg lifts. Not sure how far into pregnancy you are but can modify a lot of them if you have a big belly. Sumo squats instead of normal squats so you have better balance. Cardio might be harder if you don't have lile a treadmill and can't go outside but at least there are some easy body weight stuff. Maybe buy some resistance bands to mix it up as they are cheap. Good luck...I don't know if I could deal with the dark during that. I might get loopy by the end lol.

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