Pregnant Weightlifter!!

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  • SuperC_85
    SuperC_85 Posts: 393
    Pretty awesome,
    I have a pregnant mom on my FL and she will keep weight training until the end.

    Massive respect!
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Why the no emoticon?

    There is more and more evidence that the old advice of taking it as easy as possible when pregnant might not be the best advice after all. My own doctor gave me the go ahead to keep lifting and running. Her only concern with weight lifting was the possibility of dropping the weight. Lots of women are staying active through their pregnancy nowadays. I think it's great.
  • chani8
    chani8 Posts: 946 Member
    Awesome!
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    Kudos to her :drinker:
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    I should add - I realize not every woman is able to keep up her former routine or set PRs. I wasn't trying to say they should. I mean if you are able, I think it's great. If you aren't, doing whatever you can is too.
    Personally I wasn't able to stay be as active as I thought I would be.

    It is an individual decision that one has to balance with comfort level and how you feel.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    THIS THOUGH!

    http://wellbeing.uk.msn.com/fitness/pregnant-weightlifter-still-working-out-the-day-she-went-into-labour

    :noway:

    why :noway: ??
  • InevitableButterfly
    InevitableButterfly Posts: 340 Member
    THIS THOUGH!

    http://wellbeing.uk.msn.com/fitness/pregnant-weightlifter-still-working-out-the-day-she-went-into-labour

    :love: :drinker:

    Fixed it for you. Don't be judgmental, and don't think yourself more intelligent than the doctors who told her this activity is okay. Being pregnant doesn't mean you're sick or weak, and the baby that far along is very well protected.

    Cheers.
  • tabbyblack13
    tabbyblack13 Posts: 299 Member
    You realize through out human history women have worked throughout there pregnentsy and I'm talking hard physical labor like factory work, farm work, and just daily living. This modern day thinking that women shouldn't move during pregency is really weird becuase humans are ment to move. The first thing that a child learns is how to move and use there body.

    As long as the doctors are monitoring her say its ok then there are no problems.
  • SarahNicoleW94
    SarahNicoleW94 Posts: 62
    THIS THOUGH!

    http://wellbeing.uk.msn.com/fitness/pregnant-weightlifter-still-working-out-the-day-she-went-into-labour

    :love: :drinker:

    Fixed it for you. Don't be judgmental, and don't think yourself more intelligent than the doctors who told her this activity is okay. Being pregnant doesn't mean you're sick or weak, and the baby that far along is very well protected.

    Cheers.

    wow, you guys are the judgemental ones! I meant it as in WOW, as in look at her go.
    lol I don't know about you lot but I tend not to post judgmental **** in here!
  • Pascal56
    Pascal56 Posts: 53 Member
    I lifted while pregnant and loved it. I would've gone to the end too (41 weeks) but stopped at 36 weeks after lingering major rib pain from bronchitis.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    wow, you guys are the judgemental ones! I meant it as in WOW, as in look at her go.
    lol I don't know about you lot but I tend not to post judgmental **** in here!

    the emoticon you posted is a nope one- indicating you do not approve.

    like the face I made when I found out there was a ledge on the edge of a water fall you could sit on and not get swept off...

    big eyes (with a holychit expression) then NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.

    kudo's to her. From everything I have heard- unless there are complications/high risk- doctors say keep doing what you are doing as long as you feel safe and comfortable- don't try to pick up powerlifting 3 months into your pregnancy- but if you have BEEN a lifter- go forth- be fabulous.

    Have that baby mid deadlift- that would truly be a bad *kitten* story LOL

    At my dance studio- a handful of people take time off to do the baby thing- they disappear and their lives get busy- there have been two people that come- and continue to dance- up till they give birth (actually last baby that came- we had a performance- and she was so close- we weren't sure she was going to make it- she did- and it was fabulous)... she is a tough cookie- she gave birth at home because she thought she had time so she sent hubby away for whatever reason with the other kid- just a regular day at home. back in the studio within two weeks I think for light work.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    wow did anyone read the comments??
    Self obsessed egotistical cow. Its basically " look at me..im a f*cking hero".

    No youre not, youre just a stupid cow with a sad sap of a husband to let you do it.

    Theres nothing to see here, move on.

    bitter much?
    Does not make sense. To lift heavy weights requires core strength. A pregnant woman's stomach muscles would be stretched and weak. I do not believe a doctor would have approved of this.
    Light weights yes, but I would be struggling to lift 215 lbs (97kg) and I am a very fit man.

    LOL clearly not a weight lifter- need's man card removed.

    just because there is a baby in there doesn't mean you're muscles stop working- watched a fabulous video of Mira Betz at the massive spectacular doing full undulations and she was easily 6-7 months preggers.
  • SarahNicoleW94
    SarahNicoleW94 Posts: 62
    wow, you guys are the judgemental ones! I meant it as in WOW, as in look at her go.
    lol I don't know about you lot but I tend not to post judgmental **** in here!

    the emoticon you posted is a nope one- indicating you do not approve.

    its actually "no way" as in "wow..no way"
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Imagine all those women in poor countries that has to carry the water miles even if pregnant and having the last born on their back. Good for her for staying active, when I was preggo I was so tired all the time that just getting up for the couch was hard lol
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    its actually "no way" as in "wow..no way"
    Okay- lol you might want to edit that back in there- it doesn't quiet translate that- hence the backlash.

    and yeah- wow no way is right- I finally read it- kudo's to her for sure.
  • InevitableButterfly
    InevitableButterfly Posts: 340 Member
    wow, you guys are the judgemental ones! I meant it as in WOW, as in look at her go.
    lol I don't know about you lot but I tend not to post judgmental **** in here!
    its actually "no way" as in "wow..no way"

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  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Why the no emoticon?

    There is more and more evidence that the old advice of taking it as easy as possible when pregnant might not be the best advice after all. My own doctor gave me the go ahead to keep lifting and running. Her only concern with weight lifting was the possibility of dropping the weight. Lots of women are staying active through their pregnancy nowadays. I think it's great.

    Agreed...I wish the military had known this 20 years ago...when I got pregnant in the military that was the look I got when I showed up at PT after they found out...after that day all I was allowed was walking..couldn't even lift my own helmet for blah's sake.

    I think it's great women are getting better advice now...good on her.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    wow did anyone read the comments??
    Self obsessed egotistical cow. Its basically " look at me..im a f*cking hero".

    No youre not, youre just a stupid cow with a sad sap of a husband to let you do it.

    Theres nothing to see here, move on.

    bitter much?
    Does not make sense. To lift heavy weights requires core strength. A pregnant woman's stomach muscles would be stretched and weak. I do not believe a doctor would have approved of this.
    Light weights yes, but I would be struggling to lift 215 lbs (97kg) and I am a very fit man.

    LOL clearly not a weight lifter- need's man card removed.

    just because there is a baby in there doesn't mean you're muscles stop working- watched a fabulous video of Mira Betz at the massive spectacular doing full undulations and she was easily 6-7 months preggers.

    I try not to...I find anything like that has a bunch of those types of comments...just ticks me off usually.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I try not to...I find anything like that has a bunch of those types of comments...just ticks me off usually.

    yeah- I usually read the first couple out of interest- but yeah- soooooo annoying.

    back to that "I have work I should be doing- but reading random comments from people have no idea what they are talking about seems so much more interesting"... it's like a moth- to the flames- I cannot help myself.

    All the discipline to walk by office chocolate for days on end- no issue- but not reading random internet comments- apparently is to much for me!!!
  • jhc7324
    jhc7324 Posts: 200 Member
    wow did anyone read the comments??
    Self obsessed egotistical cow. Its basically " look at me..im a f*cking hero".

    No youre not, youre just a stupid cow with a sad sap of a husband to let you do it.

    Theres nothing to see here, move on.

    bitter much?
    Does not make sense. To lift heavy weights requires core strength. A pregnant woman's stomach muscles would be stretched and weak. I do not believe a doctor would have approved of this.
    Light weights yes, but I would be struggling to lift 215 lbs (97kg) and I am a very fit man.

    LOL clearly not a weight lifter- need's man card removed.

    just because there is a baby in there doesn't mean you're muscles stop working- watched a fabulous video of Mira Betz at the massive spectacular doing full undulations and she was easily 6-7 months preggers.
    :lol: @ the very fit man struggling to deadlift 215.
  • MissAnjy
    MissAnjy Posts: 2,480 Member
    Wow, good for her.

    I would be paranoid I would smoke my own protruding belly with that kettlebell HAHA
  • juliewatkin
    juliewatkin Posts: 764 Member
    Wow. Good for her. For sure not everyone can lift when they're pregnant. My knees and hips felt like they would fling out of their sockets. I could do the splits like a bad *kitten* though :smile:

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