I’ve discussed before my fascination with the diet and exercise that we can and should pursue throughout pregnancy to ensure the best health for both us and the unborn child. After all, while you are carrying a child and their development is reliant on the nutrition, oxygen and chemicals in your blood stream, you have a certain amount of responsibility to ensure you give them the best chance.
For some reason lots of people have been posting or writing about their pregnancies including their successes and failures on the diet and exercise front. I’ve linked to a few in recent Friday links posts, but since I’m now becoming overwhelmed with articles and posts on the subject, I’ve collected below some of the most recent ones that have caught my eye.
- Precision Nutrition have produced a pair of articles by John Berardi: the first addresses how to exercise during pregnancy and the second covers what to eat during your pregnancy. I expect that, with time, these articles will become staple cornerstones in the databank of information to turn to when finding out you are pregnant.
- Next up is Sara Cheatham who trains with kettlebells and has recently announced that she is 5 months pregnant. With her initial announcement she wrote about doing pull ups during pregnancy and her general training, including how it has been affected by her pregnancy. She then followed this up with a post about the changes to her diet during pregnancy. In particular, I found it fascinating that her cravings have generally been an extension of her existing diet – she followed a warrior diet before and now finds she’s mostly craving things like salads, milk and fruit.
- Returning, as always to Cassandra Forsythe, with less than a month to go in her own pregnancy. Cassandra highlighted Kristie Moore who was on the Canadian curling team at the winter Olympics and is expecting her first child in May, so she was 6 or 7 months pregnant when competing. If that’s not an inspirational story for pregnant women everywhere, I’m not sure what is!
- Finally, Catherine Phipps wrote an entry for The Guardian blog about why women are advised to avoid undercooked eggs when pregnant, including the trials of managing to do this. There are some useful references in her article.
For all pregnant women reading this, I wish you the best of luck with your pregnancy and hope that you find some of these links and resources useful, supporting or simply inspiring.
Please let me know how your pregnancies go and what useful training and diet things you’ve learned. Especially if it contradicts or strongly supports something here.
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After looking for inspiration for my own blog, this is a really useful post… I’ve been trying to find something with advice which is more than the usual ‘go for a walk’ while you are pregnant, as despite being over 5 months pregnant, I still want a decent workout!
I found John Berardi advice on exercise really helpful, and while the other links are to women a lot fitter than myself, it does go to show that being pregnant shouldn’t stop you from reaching your goals and certainly should not be an excuse to stop.
In fact after doing limited exercise on holiday for the last 10 days, I noticed that things were starting to ache a bit more so I’m raring to get back in the gym now
I’m glad you found this useful. If you do a search on my site (see the search box on the right-hand side of this page) or look in the women-specific articles section on the Training page (tab near the top of the page) you’ll find there’s lots more stuff on pregnant women and exercise – I’ve done a few bits on this topic over the years. I’m definitely convinced on the argument that pregnant women should carry on as they were and not suddenly stop and put their feet up for the duration of their pregnancy.
I hope the holiday was worth the follow-up aches… Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy. I’d love to hear whether the aches go away again if you start exercising a bit more again.
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