Anybody exercising through pregnancy ?

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I may get some hate for this 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I’m a competitive powerlifter and I just went to my first national comp last month. I’m now 5w5d pregnant and was a bit conflicted at first on whether to continue training especially since I was planning to do another meet with my hubby in February. I’ve still been lifting moderately heavy taking it day by day since I don’t always feel that energized and sometimes have nausea throughout the day. Anyway, just wanted to see if there are any other ladies on here who do CrossFit, Olympic lifting, powerlifting, any strength or endurance training, or just any exercising at all through pregnancy. I want your experiences and thoughts and any tips on getting through training sessions while pregnant!

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Typically whatever your routine was before pregnancy can be continued through your pregnancy tho you may need modifications as you get further along. I do Orangetheory fitness 5x a week and I continued it my whole last pregnancy up til the day before I gave birth. Plan to do the same this time around

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Hey Tatiana, I’m into bodybuilding and I’ve been for years but due to previous miscarriages (not related to exercise) I’ve completely stopped lifting since I found out about my pregnancy. I’m planning on keeping light cardio and after the 12 weeks mark I want to lift again, just not as heavy. My advice is to talk to your doctor because even though exercise is good for pregnancy heavy lifting in the early stages may not be x

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To go along with this...I go to a kickboxing gym. All punching and kicking is done on bags. We do a 10 minute full body warmup. I haven't been in about a month because I've been afraid of what I can and can't do. Is there any exercises that you guys would recommend not doing? We do everything from lunges to jumping jacks, to burpees, to push ups, to sit ups. Anything you name we probably do in warmup.

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I’m not a big lifter but I do work out 4x a week. My trainer was one of the first people to know and he helps me modify everything. This week he asked if I still felt comfortable doing weighted hip raises. My old weight was 185lbs but I only did 170lbs because I’ve been feeling really tired lately. Do what feels right to you. You know your body.

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100%. I also lift pretty heavy 5x a week and will continue until I can’t anymore. This is my second pregnancy and I worked out the entire time with my first and will continue to with this one as well. I had the easiest, quickest labor and I 100% believe it was because I was so active during my pregnancy.

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I would ask doc. If you have always done it, its usually ok.

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I’m still doing CrossFit under approval of my doctor! Apparently it’s totally safe and will mean an easier labour (hopefully!!)

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I broke my leg in July so my exercising consists of physical therapy 😂

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Lifting heavy weights is listed as possible cause for miscarriage so I'm not sure about continuing with the plan as if nothing happened.
At the same time, many things that are generally considered risky are fine if your body is already used to it before getting pregnant.
Based on this I think a lot of your exercises can stay the same but I'd advise talking to your doc about the weights themselves.
I'm not doing anything amazing like you ladies btw, I just do my regular light exercises whenever I can gather the energy. But props to you all!

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Same here I’m very into weight training and working out but stopped since I found out jus in case due to previous miscarriage jus to be on the safe side! But it’s killing me ! Lol I’m so excited to get back to it I was gonna wait til about 15-16 wks jus to be safe 
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