May 13, 2011

Pregnancy isn't an excuse: MAY WORKOUT!! (& a short intro to BMI)


May 5th-31st 
Pregnancy weeks 12-15


5/5-5/11 week 12 
5/5 - Nuthin
5/6 - cardio 3.5 miles
5/7 - light cardio 3 miles
5/8 - Nuthin
5/9 - Nuthin
5/10 - cardio 5 miles, core exercise, and resistance band work (1st real workout of whole pregnancy!)
5/11 - Workout, cardio 5 miles

5/12-5/18 week 13
5/12 - cardio 4 miles, core exercise, and resistance band
5/13 - cardio 4 miles
5/14 - cardio 5 miles
5/15 - Day off
5/16 - cardio 5 miles, core exercise, and resistance band
5/17 - Pre natal appointment!  110lbs
5/18 - cardio 4 miles  

5/19-5/25 week 14 
5/19 - cardio 4 miles
5/20 - cardio 9 miles (YAY), resistance band, and core
5/21 - Day off
5/22 - cardio 4 miles
5/23 - Day off
5/24 - cardio 4 miles, resistance band, and core exercise
5/25 - cardio 6 miles
I felt flutters from the baby moving this week!!!! ;)

5/26-5/31 week 15 
5/26 - Nada
5/27 - cardio 5 miles
5/28 - cardio 7 miles
5/29 - cardio 6.5 miles, and core workout
5/30 - Day off!!!!!
5/31 - cardio 8 miles!  YAY for MAY!

Now I should start a journal with what I eat... lol... I don't think that is gonna happen, cuz I'm just too ashamed lolol.  Thanks for reading and caring! xo


How Much Weight Should You Gain in Pregnancy?
BMI Recommended Weight Gain
30+ 11-20 lbs
25 - 29.9 15-25 lbs
18.6-24.9 25-35 lbs
18.5 and lower 28-40 lbs


 I found this chart and think that every pregnant woman should make sure she knows her TRUE BMI going into pregnancy.  People (especially females) don't seem to know or care what BMI is and tend to focus on lbs.  Focusing on lbs is quite silly because a person can look thin, weigh in at normal and actually have a high unhealthy BMI, the opposite is true as well.  You can be considered normal in lbs and actually be underweight because you are muscular and muscle weighs so much more than fat.  I don't recommend finding your BMI using a chart on the internet or Doctors office that shows height and weight, because that's no better than just sticking to lbs! -It's not measuring how much fat you have on your body just how much of YOU there is!  Rather go to your trainer or an experienced professional and have them perform a caliper test to find your true body fat percentage.  I love this chart for pregnancy though because even though lbs can be fool-some (changing with increasing and decreasing muscle mass/water weight instead of fat) It at least gives you a little more of a breakdown than the normal, 'you should gain between 25 and 35lbs during your pregnancy' line that is on every website, and it bases your starting point on your BMI.


***So I also took the opportunity to read a wonderful book the latter half of this month called, Natural Hospital Birth: The best of both worlds  By: Cynthia Gabriel.  I definitely would recommend this to ANYONE whether they want to have a natural childbirth or not, but especially if you are gunning to avoid cesarean or medications that often lead to cesarean during labor. This book gives you useful tools for dealing with hospital staffs, creating and following your birthing plan, simple medical ABC's and the events that lead up to so many unnecessary cesareans.  I do believe if more women knew the information in this book they wouldn't be as scared by doctors, midwifes, and nurses and more willing to say WAIT, I don't want to induce labor, or I don't want you to break my water etc.  Trust me this is a great book for seeing how one thing leads to another, to another, to eventual surgery. Ok, done now! :)



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