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Post partum fitness fanatics/ high level athletes

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Travellingislife · 28/01/2024 05:56

How do you manage to not go crazy when you can’t train like before?! Or what’s your secret if you can get the time to train like before??
I’m 10 weeks post partum and I struggle because I can’t fit training in in the same way as before. I thought I would be fine with just getting half an hour in the basic home gym now and an again but I’m not. I feel very frustrated and I want to train in the specific way which allows me to progress and be able to compete at a decent standard. There must be others in the same situation? How do you manage mum life with your training? Do I just need to wind my neck in and accept I’ll have to wait until DD will go to nursery? (Not before she is 1. )That will make me miserable though. A nanny/ childminder isn’t an option. Or is it? Now when I’m thinking about it it may be; getting someone in a few hours a day. Expensive though. We’ve got no family nearby.
Maybe I need to accept it and train between 8-10pm when both kids are asleep and my husband is at home. I go to bed before 9pm usually though and I’m exhausted by 6pm. I’m up feeding several times a night and up around 5am for the day. The gym doesn’t open until 6 and I would maximum get an hour in before my hubby have to go to work and that is if he manages to get ready while juggling the kids..
I’ve always been a high level athlete, not professional for the last 10 years though but I train very hard and with a purpose, doing competitions at a decent level and some in other areas than my sport just for fun.
How do you do it super mama’s?

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ButItHasCheese · 28/01/2024 06:02

I got in a nanny a few hours ago week, and found as DS got older (and less dependant on BF) it got easier.

Definitely had to lower my expectations a lot though - it's been a 2 year return to fitness for me since birth, but now I'm back to around 15 hours a week.

Hang in there!

PuttingDownRoots · 28/01/2024 06:12

Just be careful... your ligaments etc are more fragile for the months after birth
(As explained to me by the physio when being treated for the injury that means I can never do high level sport again.. that baby is 12 now, it still hurts).

Its not the same, but have you tried a running buggy?

BedZwift · 28/01/2024 07:25

I found a gym with a crèche, that was pretty much the only way it worked for me

onthefence23 · 28/01/2024 07:53

A mix of home gym, mummy and me classes which we both loved and a good session at the weekend when DH could help. A word of caution though at 17 months I suffered a nasty injury that several expres said was a direct result of returning to normal levels too fast!! Highly recommend going for a 'return to sport' post partum assessment

Travellingislife · 28/01/2024 09:52

Thank you ladies! The gym with a crèche is a great idea, I’ve got another 3 weeks until she will be allowed there. Not sure she’ll like it though but I will try.
Sorry to hear that @onthefence23 I have heard about injuries happen long after giving birth and it does worry me a little but I’ve been seeing a women’s health physio and she’s cleared me, but I’m easing in to it slowly ( ish).
I’ll definitely try Buggy running and lowering my expectations 😅

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onthefence23 · 28/01/2024 16:22

It's one of those things and I would do things differently if I could go back but such is life!!

It was the loosened ligaments for me, caused a fall where I broke an elbow and twisted a knee

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