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  • #ThrowbackThursday to my days pregnant with Piper (6 years ago). ⠀ ⠀ Everything I do today as a coach and in my business is for this girl right here. ⠀ ⠀ 👉🏻The woman who had no idea what she was doing that first time around. ⠀ 👉🏻The woman who was jumping and running at 41 weeks pregnant to "get the baby out" ⠀ 👉🏻The woman who was determined to not let a pregnancy slow her down. ⠀ 👉🏻The woman who absolutely would have been so much more at peace if she had a coach like me today, @brianna.battles or any of the @pregnant.postpartum.athlete Coaches. ⠀ Today I'm the coach that I needed 6 years ago. That so many women I encounter in the gym on a daily basis need to help educate them, give them permission to be pregnant, and check their ego. ⠀ ⠀ It's so easy to get caught up in the applause you will 100% get from people in the gym and on the internet when you do seemingly "baddass shit" in your pregnancy. ⠀ ⠀ Guess what? I loved that shit. I loved it when people told me how cool it was that I was still working out, still doing pull ups, still running in my pregnancy. I felt validated and strong as hell. ⠀ ⠀ It took me years (and 3 pregnancies) to get to the point where I could mostly disregard the applause of others in favor of clapping for myself. ⠀ My goal as a coach today is help women feel empowered in their choices and able to clap for themselves way before their 3rd pregnancy. ⠀ ⠀ There are so many better examples today of how to continue the exercise you love in pregnancy in a safer and smarter way. I'm seeing hundreds of them in the #IMAPREGNANTATHLETE challenge and that makes me really happy. ⠀ ⠀ Next week Bri and I are bringing a new program to the fold to help pregnant women continue to train in a safe way during their pregnancy. Invites go out via email on Wednesday, if you don't get emails from me, you can use the link in my bio to get on the list!
  • Truth: You may never get your "Pre-Baby Body Back" and that is ok. ⠀ ⠀ About a year or so after Piper was born I was stronger than I was pre-pregnancy. ⠀ ⠀ A year and half after my pregnancy with Lucy I was physically WAY stronger than I had ever been in my entire life and healed a lot of my issues trying to be perfect with my eating. ⠀ ⠀ I have no reason to believe that in another year or so I won't be just as strong as I ever was, maybe stronger. 💪⠀ ⠀ It takes time. It takes intention with your exercise. It takes patience with your aging body (note: I'm basically grandma status these days 👵🏼) but it's all going to be better than ok. ⠀ ⠀ I get it when I see women in the gym pushing their limits in pregnancy. I get being totally freaked out that you're going to lose something. Trying to prove you've still got it even though you're 4,5, or 9 months pregnant. ⠀ ⠀ Letting yourself be pregnant, modifying your exercise selection or strategy doesn't have to mean you're going to lose anything.It just means you're taking care of your body. Your baby, and doing everything you can to ensure that you can exercise now, in 9 months, and when you're a grandma (like me! 😂). ⠀ ⠀ It's Day 3 of the #IMAPREGNANTATHLETE challenge and this is my "I'm a wise mom of 3" wisdom for you. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣
  • I'm pregnant in this photo. ⠀ ⠀ I don't look pregnant, but I am. First trimester, all the nausea, all the exhaustion, all the wondering "Is this real? Will it stick? Why do I feel so horrible?" ⠀ ⠀ Today is Day 2 of the #IMAPREGNANTATHLETE challenge and today we are talking exercise modifications in pregnancy. ⠀ ⠀ I regularly get DM's from women confiding in me that they are in the earliest stages of pregnancy. They want to know how they should start modifying exercise now that they are pregnant. ⠀ ⠀ If you've never been pregnant before then chances are high you will be surprised in the way that first trimester KICKS. YOUR. ASS. So that's where I always start. ⠀ ⠀ The truth is, for most women there isn't a lot of modifications for exercise selection that need to happen in the 1st trimester. Those early weeks of pregnancy are all about giving yourself grace and doing what you have to do to get through the day. ⠀ ⠀ The level of exhaustion you feel might surprise you. ⠀ The nausea may about break you ⠀ How winded you get doing simple exercises may shock you. ⠀ ⠀ The good news is, that it usually passes. Often times it passes like a kidney stone, but it does pass for the majority of us. 😬⠀ ⠀ In that first trimester: ⠀ ⠀ ✅Build in more rest during your workouts ⠀ ✅Go slower without worry that anyone is judging you⠀ ✅Resist the urge to scream at others in the gym "I'm not lazy, I'm pregnant!" as a way to prove yourself. ⠀ ✅Be ok missing a day or a few. ⠀ ✅Remember, in this first trimester your body is building a BABY. Heart, lungs, legs, a brain are forming. Your body isn't super concerned about you kicking ass at your crossfit workout, its preoccupied. ⠀ ✅Modifications for core/pelvic floor health are less of a priority at this stage, focus on slowing down and tuning in to what your body needs. ⠀ ⠀ @brianna.battles and I summarize guidelines like this in our free resource, Scaling Recommendations For the Pregnant Athlete. Use the link in my bio to grab your copy if you haven't already! 🙌🏻
  • A year ago I was deep in a lunge and deep in thoughts of whether or not I should have another baby. ⠀ ⠀ My heart said yes, but everything else including my husband said no (we all know how this turned out). ⠀ ⠀ I was scared of another pregnancy way more than I was scared of having another human to take care of. After completing my pregnancy & postpartum athleticism coaching course and coaching more and more pregnant moms myself I KNEW my training would have to be different this 3rd time around. ⠀ ⠀ But could my ego handle that? Could I slow down my athlete brain that wanted to keep up with everyone else, that wanted to not be slowed down by a baby in my belly? ⠀ That, I was less sure of. See I can coach YOU to do that, but coach myself..... well let's just say I'm terrible at listening to advice. ⠀ ⠀ I did end up pregnant though (now postpartum) I did adjust my training and it WAS hard for me mentally at times to do that. HOWEVER, my body felt great with this new approach. I still worked out, I just made adjustments to my strategy which looked like: ⠀ ⠀ 👉Not pushing my limits ⠀ 👉Actually stopping or adjusting movements that didn't feel good ⠀ 👉A LOT of glute training to keep my body feeling & functioning well⠀ 👉Being more aware of my breath ⠀ 👉Checking my ego at the door ⠀ 👉Not comparing myself to any other pregnant person on IG or in my gym. ⠀ ⠀ And you know what?? It all turned out just fine. ⠀ ⠀ I'm now 4 weeks postpartum, I feel good, and I feel like those adjustments to the temporary chapter of pregnancy have set me up for a safe return to exercise in this postpartum chapter. ⠀ ⠀ Yes, you need to adjust your strategy and exercise selection when training in pregnancy, but even more so, you need to adjust your mindset. ⠀ ⠀ It's ok to look pregnant, it's ok to slow down, it's ok to be winded and tired, it's ok to modify your workout to the point that it resembles NOTHING that the rest of your class is doing. ⠀ ⠀ It's not forever and there will be a time and place for you to go hard or go home again, but for now, you're pregnant. Let this chapter be different.⠀ ⠀ The #IMAPREGNANTATHLETE challenge is happening this week. Join us and share your story.

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