Here is part 2 of what I started last week. Incidently, it’s 6:30AM and I’ve been up since 3:30. Gotta love this sleep schedule!

Fitness: Fortunately, I raced in San Diego just a couple of months before getting pregnant. (Unfortunately, we lost that damn race, but I won’t dwell. Really). So I was in decent shape coming into all of this. Also fortunately during the first trimester I had no morning sickness, weird fatigue issues or anything. Long ago I knew it was important to keep working out rather than stop everything and sit on the couch and eat bonbons. So in the first trimester, I tried to keep rowing. A little bit in June, subbing in for rowers training for Regionals (which I did not attend). A little more in July, when I had the hankering because the weather was just beautiful. When JPT returned in August I found myself sitting in the launch more than in a boat, so decided it was time to take a break. I had planned to stop rowing mid-August anyway, since I knew the girls would begin training for head-racing season.

You can sorta look through this blog and see what I’ve been up to fitness-wise. It hasn’t really changed. In fact, I got pretty routine, especially with the lifting, thanks to NROL. I’m still doing it, nearly complete, but at a much slower rate. I’ve gone from about 5x a week, of combined practice, cardio + lifting down to 3x a week, depending on my work schedule.

It’s not that bad. There were mornings when I did not want to get out of bed to workout. A lot of mornings. At some point when I wanted to hit the snooze button, though, there was a little bit of motivation that I didn’t have 6 months earlier. It sounds corny but I’d think,”man I should really do this for the kiddie” And so then I’d get up.

Joints are looser now, and injuring the connective tissue in the pelvic area is a concern. The increase of progesterone keeps me breathless more often than normal. My doctor is super. She’s very well aware of the fitness level I had before. She herself is quite fit and can speak from experience. In terms of cardio there is less erging, no treadmill, a lot of elliptical. Strength training is lower weights and higher reps. I feel good, practice common sense, and believe I can keep going at least into the third trimester. Once I get huge, well, we’ll see.

So. Kettlebells Training on Thursday. I like doing this because I can catch up with my rowing buddies a little bit. The other benefit is being able to adjust the exercises according to what I can and can’t do. I can’t really do jumping squats, and some of the core work isn’t good for me, either. It’s easy to sub in different items and still get a great workout. I think/hope I can keep doing this through the end of October. I think the number of exercises I’ll be able to comfortably do will go down, until all I’m doing is squats.

3 sets of 4 exercises. No rest between exercises, but 2 minutes between sets. Each set = 3 x 1 minute per exercise. Got it?

Set 1:

• KB Clean & Press
• Bulgarian Split Squats
• BW Squats (everyone else did burpees)
• Bridge (everyone else did bridge)

Set 2:

• Yates Row
• Wall Ball
• Plank
• Cross Squat

Set 3:

• Step up with Wood chop
• Erg
• Push up + T
• TRX Squat & Row