Pregnancy Fitness

Before pregnancy, I tried to live a fairly active lifestyle. Because I get bored of the same workouts over & over, I would rotate my workouts with running, Zumba, Piloxing, and various HIIT workouts and strength training. Now that I'm pregnant, I'm trying not to let the "bump" get in the way of my active lifestyle-- but it physically is....getting in the way.

In my first trimester I was super active, I still ran, went to Zumba, continued my HIIT & Strength workouts. We were also traveling a lot, so we did lots of hiking & walking during our vacation.

During my second trimester, I still ran at least once or twice per week up until 17 weeks and went to Zumba at least once or twice per week. Due to being so busy & still feeling tired at 17ish weeks, I began just working out at home. My Zumba gym closed down at the location that was closest to me, so driving over 30 mins there & 30 mins back, and then working out an hour was just not easy for a tired mama-to-be.

I don't know why I stopped running really? Maybe because Matt was too busy to run with me & I hate running alone. However, I recently joined a walking club at one of my schools & that's been nice to at least get moving a couple days per week. I was brave last week (23 weeks preggo) & ran some of my walk because I was the only person that showed up for walking that day. I can say it just feels weird to run with a growing bump! I'm much slower & get out of breath fairly quickly, but it's not impossible!

Before pregnancy I discovered "PopSugar Fitness" a website with free workouts-- and I love it! They have such a great variety & it's super easy to combine several of their short workouts for a total body workout. I searched workouts that seemed preggo friendly & also found a few that were labeled as "Pregnancy" workouts. I wanted to share my top three, go-to videos for my workouts. I will typically do all three in one workout session to get at least 30 mins. of workout in. I always feel great after doing these & feel that I didn't overdo it! If you're preggo & were fairly active before pregnancy, I highly recommend these workouts! (Of course be sure to check with your doc that it's safe for YOU to workout)

10-Minute Prenatal Workout From Heidi Klum's Trainer 


10- Minute Prenatal Arm Workout 


10- Minute Cardio Barre Workout


Stay Fit & Healthy, Mamas!