Positive test this am [smile], need info on exercise

[Lexie100]

Hi, I go to the gym about 4 times a week and do loads of weights and CV stuff (body pump, spinning, body attack). I was just wondering if there anything i should avoid doing as i'm only 4 and a half weeks gone? Will carrying on hurt the development in these early days?

Congrats Lexie!!!!!!

Congrats - don't know about the ins and outs of it - but I'd speak to the people at the gym - they should be able to tell you what is still ok and what isn't. You certainly shouldn't be training 'as hard' as you have been - but I 'think' some is still ok - but as I said best to ask at the gym (and if they don't have a clue find a new gym LOL)

Congratulations!

Do you have a trainer at the gym? When I fell pg, I asked them for advice straigt away and they changed my programme. I didn't do proper weights after that - well, only very light ones but more repetitions. But I did do cardio stuff - walking/running/cycling/rowing. I think you just need to listen to your body with that and only push yourself a low amount. As soon as you feel tired (which even so early in pg may well be sooner than you think) you should stop and rest.

DH's colleague is a very good runner and she ran throughout her pg until weeks before the birth.

I think the advice is not to exercise to exhaustion and that a consistently raised body temperature from extreme exercise is not a great idea.

So you may need to scale back your normal routine a bit, but definitely don't stop. The other thing you need to be aware of is that pregnancy can make your ligaments more stretchy than usual, and it's easier to pull / strain things. But I think that's more a factor later on. Basically - listen to what your body is telling you.

I've cycled (30-40 mins, twice a day, 4 times a week) throughout this pregnancy - just quitting at 8 months, and have found it a brilliant way of keeping healthy.

And CONGRATULATIONS!

Thanks all. I'm sooooo excited yet terrified all at the same time.

COngratulations Lexie100, I am 5 weeks pg. Come over a join the Due in October thread.

hula re you pg?

Cod - no, was talking about last time I was pg. Maybe one month soon!

Hi congratulations.

I did body pump with my ds until I was about 6 months gone. I had to adapt a bit, I put my bench on a slope so that I wasn't lying flat on my back. I think your body makes it perfectly clear when it's had enough. I seem to remember upright rows became impossible, I was having to spread my legs wider and wider to so squats and getting up of the bench with a bar becomes impossible when you can't rest it on your tummy.

Be careful though, when your ligaments start to go lax, it's very easy to injure yourself.

I also found with regards to over heating that I just couldn't do the cv stuff as well as I had been able to. I took that as a sign that I wasn't supposed to be.

Congratulations Lexi100 is take it this is your first preg, you make sure you enjoy every minute of it as it is magical!!!!!!

Thanks all.

Thanks also about the body pump info. I think my life is just about to be turned upside down. I go to the gym all the time (sad i know but got into the habbit when was rowing). Will ask at the gym. Seems funny to tell complete strangers you are pregnant but not your family!

I read somewhere recently that when pg your heartrate shouldn't go above 140, if that helps!

I told them at my gym when I was 5 weeks pregnant. They told me not to lift weights above my head. Other than that they said I could go on as I was before (which was running, weights, classes - whatever I could squeeze in. I love the gym!)

Meant to say "I could go on as before until I'm 12-14 weeks pregnant". At that point they'll do another programme for me. I'm 17 weeks now and haven't got 'roudn to it yet.... I've just been doing running, swimming and aqua-aerobics. I'm booked in for a review next week.