Dipping toes in: any fellow crossfitters?

[fein _but_waiting!]

Hi,

After a couple chemicals and a year, I've finally had my BFP (well lots of them!) earlier this week . Praying for a sticky one who will be number 4, 5 years after my last.

On a separate note, I exercise through crossfit and at a pretty decent high level. I feel fine during the workouts but really no idea at this stage how or what to taper off. I have a history of 2 c/s the second of which my uterus ruptured but thankfully we both made it out ok (something was watching over us!) so once my belly is visible, out of caution I know I will scale things down tremendously but in the meantime just curious what others have done?

 

[Kitana]

Hi there!

I used to crossfit during my first pregnancy and did so until about 6 months. We had a physical therapist as a coach and was a great help in scaling the work out and avoiding certain movements.
Most of my wods were altered as I started getting spd at about 13 weeks. I could still lift as before but after the wod, I could barely walk due to the pain.
I felt very sad and defeated when I saw others load their bars and I would just get a light empty one.. when I would try to lift more, I would usually regret it so bad a few hours later.

After birth I had a lot of issues with my bladder, I could not hold my pee for 2 weeks straight and my midwife told me a lot of weight lifting women get bladder troubles. Sometimes I wish I had put my pride aside and not load the bar.

As for ab exercises, the physiotherapist told me to stop them as soon as I started to show. Luckily I only got a real bump at around 5 months. I was so scared of getting diastasis recti that I really did listen! Instead of abs I would squat or do elevated push ups or box step ups. If you're doing an exercise and you see your abs form a "cone", stop immediately!

He also told me to never get to a point when you cannot have a conversation while exercising. Because your muscles will demand so much oxygen to keep on going that it will nourish them first before the baby, which can eventually lead to oxygen deprivation of the baby's brain, which you really do not want!

After the birth of my dd, I wanted to get back in the game after about 6 weeks but it was impossible when breastfeeding! I then postponed crossfit until about 3 months after birth, but found that the spd was still lingering (it went away almost 11 months after birth btw!). I completely gave up as I was spending so much money when I couldn't even go or perform a proper wod. I started working out at the gym slowly with the intention of getting stronger before going back to crossfit but found it hard to combine work/baby/household. I will return one day but when my daughters are older and my body completely ready.

Congrats on the bfp and hope you can keep training!x

 

[IVW]

I trained right up to about 8 months. I just scaled back and actually missed burpees

My group of friends are big CrossFiters and one of them is half way through her pregnancy and is still doing CrossFit. The coaches just tailored her workouts. I would just get your coaches to tailor workouts as you carry on in your pregnancy.

All I can say is, carry on as you feel comfortable to do so, as i think it really does help with being pregnant, physically and mentally

 

[fein _but_waiting!]

Thanks ladies, appreciate the replies! I have ever so slightly tapered down out of consciousness but I'm actually feeling better in every aspect of training than i have for a while which is so bizarre! I'm really having to work with myself as everyone at my box has "high expectations" of me. On a lazy day that's really helpful but now it's hard to cope with! Feigning back pain (also not prone to injury as I'm a physio so take care of myself!) so will see how far that gets me. Have mentioned it to one coach who initially reacted with old school you have to be careful, then but you're in a really good shape and know what you're doing so all good