Exercise routines, tips and chatter?

[Nadine216]

PSML ROFL - RACHEAL!!! I read that last line to quickly and I read "my tieties are boiling over" I sat here thinking for a second - Gee, what the heck is that woman doing!!!!!

Bec, I am going to kiss you to DEATH!!! I read your post yesterday and thought there is no way that I can get into personal training or anything like that and just blew the suggestion off. BUT I was paging through a mag in bed later and I saw it - career oppertunity, brilliant, simple, easy and perfect for me. I still need to do some serious market research AND hear what I have to do to qualify to instruct in these classes, but I am so stoked. I don't know if you know about this, but it's called preggiebellies. It's and excercise regime that are spesific for pregnant women using fitballs and light weights. There are no real place in my town for pg women to excersise. Yes we have a gym and a curves (new) and some pillates/yoga stuff, but no real classes for pg women, kwim. And I could incorporate some swimming and walking. Something different for everyday of the week, kwim?? Then I started thinking about what happens AFTER you had your baby. I could not go to the gym, because our gym does not have a day-care facility. Then I started thinking about classes for new moms and their babies ... using their babies as weights (sounds so unpersonal) but in that way strengthen the bond between mother & child, and even classes for mothers and todlers. And then I was thinking about instructing in methods that you can use while in labour (like using a fitball or sitting in certian positions) or teaching lemase (sp!!) I have not been in labour and probably would never experiance it, but that does not mean that I can't reach. Those who can't do, teach We are about a hour's drive from the city where you can get all these classes, BUT it's still a hour's drive and what woman has two hour's to "waste" to drive to an excersise class?
Anyway I am probably TOTALY naive about this, but the more I think about it the more I like the idea. I have to get DH onboard too, have not spoken to him yet. I first want to do the research. I just hope it does not cost a fortune to begin, but even if I have to take five years or more, I would SOOOO LOVE this!!!!! It's a job I can do from home and then I can quite!!!!!!! I have all these ideas and my mind is racing. I'm rambling

Kazbah - that sounds lovely and daring. And it's great that you live close enough to do that that often. Goodluck !!!

[Nadine216]

OMG!! preggiebellies were established in Melborne, Australia!!!!

Come on guys - give me some feedback if any of you did some of that classes - how was it!!!!!

[paradise lost]

Nadine i never went to anything like preggiebellies (just walked and swam, will be running through my next PG!) but it's great to hear you sounding so stoked!

I don't think it makes any difference about you having had labour or not because you'd be teaching people a range of techniques and not all of them work for everyone - i only found slow deep breathing in labour to be helpful, even when i was trying to not push panting just didn't work for me, so even if you'd had a labour it doesn't mean you'd necessarily be able to relate better to anyone. Also my favourite midwife, Sandra, who was amazing and gave me so much confidence re: my blood pressure (i.e. that it was labile and not really scary-high as it seemed) and was an aromatherapist and gave me brilliant advice for post-birth and a great aroma-oil gel for my poor burised perineum had NEVER had a kid. And some of the worst advice i got was from people with loads of kids.

Here they have a few classes, aquanatal, preggy-yoga, that sort of thing, and there's a post-baby buggy-pushers group (in the park, fast walking/slow jogging, some resistance work using bubs as you say and general stretching) some people like. I never went as when she was small i didn't have a good enough pram to run and now i do i'm WAY past where they train - i guess i could run the 7k to the park, train with them and then run the 7k home again?

Kaz i hope you feel 100% better really soon. I'm SO jealous of your 100 steps - it looks amazing! Nothing like that here, unless i climb ben nevis, bit of a hike just to GET there though...

Bx

[C~Q]

Nadine I think that sounds fantastic! And you sound so passionate and excited and that is what this industry is all about! I bet you'll be brilliant at it

[Nadine216]

Thanks for the boost Bec & Rachel. Different strokes for different okes

Bec, you are one crazy lady, do you know that?? I bet it's that buggy that brainwashed you

I have not heard back from the preggiebellies head office yet, but I know that I would need some training - diploma/certificate or something. Have not told DH yet, either. I was thinking about maybe getting a partner in the business, one who are qualified. *scratching head* Thinking my input can be finance, managing and marketing and hers could be the more hands on ... for time being, kwim?? Because I myself would hesitate to go to a class that are not given by a person with proper qualifications, especially when I am pregant. I am so scared that if I wait to long or till I have the qualifications that the gap might have been spotted by someone else.

Ok, have another problem.

Like I said before - I love ab work. I love the way I can tighten my abs and feel those mucles inbetween my ribs. BUT we did this exercise this morning and I could not get control over my abs. I was sitting there huffing and puffing and sweating and making small farting sounds , but NO CONTROL. I am going to explain the exercise and then where I have the problem.

Sit flat on the floor, legs pulled up towards your butt, hands on knees. Lift feet off the floor by slowly leaning backwards. TIGHTEN ABS, lift hands off knees and keep the position for twenty dreaded long counts!!!!! then REPEAT!!!!

My tummy keeps popping out And that must not happen. My instructor told me to breath in, pull my navel to my spine, tighten everything in the ab-areas (feel it pull on that hip-bones that stick out just above your you-know-what - don't know what that is called in english), and breath out while keeping the abs tight, feeling them flatten. WTF!!!!

I am trying, but that is not happening. Any suggestions on how to get my tummy NOT popping???? Or how to strengthen those parts of the tummy?? I can do kazillion crunches, but I can't do that for more than 2 seconde

[paradise lost]

Do you mean a V-sit?

I just tried to do what you said, and only felt a slight pull under my bellybutton, nothing near my pelvis, and having all my weight on my tailbone KILLED!

Bx

[Nadine216]

*dragging my sorry-for-myself-butt in here*

Yeah, Bec, I would call that a V-sit. That is exactly what is not suppose to happen, your abs is suppose to support you so that your spine/tailbone does not carry all the weight. Going to ask her again next time she tells us to do that.

I have been a bit lazy this week. Monday dd was sick, so I could not go to gym and this morning I went into the city with DH instead. I am stiff as a board from Wednesday's fitball session, but that is what you get for skipping on 'n Monday

I am dropping some weight though I have not had ANY bread so far this week and I am down one kilo!!! I am SO naughty with pudding and chocolate and custard and jellydrops, but NO BREAD!!!! So I really do think that is where my biggest problem lay.
We are going to ttc as of the begining of April, so I have less than a month to get to AT LEAST 66kg and convince my Darling Husband to let me exercise again during this pregnancy. He is hell bend that that is what caused my prem-birth, which of course could not be further from the truth.

I may be coming in here a bit less. I have a lot of work, one of the girls left. There are word that the boss is not going to get someone in her position, so the work have to be shared between the rest of us.

[paradise lost]

I might not have felt it at the time but i was in a WORLD of pain from those V-sits the next day! I felt it ALL OVER my abs, especially my obliques.

I can't see, if i weigh 77kg and my tailbone is the only part of me touching the floor, how strong abs can possibly reduce my weight! I tried tensing my glutes which helped a tiny bit but i doubt is the "proper" way to do it. I had DP (personal trainer) check my technique and he said it looked fine, so i also have no idea about the whole lower abs theory. He said that the normal way to tighten the lower abs is laid-flat-leglifts (hard and can hurt your back) or pelvic tilts, but you can't do a pelvic tilt and keep your back straight. Let us know what your trainer says.

I put my squats and lunges up to 15kg last night at pump!!! YAY me!!!

I've had a minor hip injury (from long runs and a biomechanical foible of mine) so i've been nursing it all week with shorter runs and lots and lots of stretches. So annoying as i was getting into my groove but i guess avoiding serious injury will do more for my training than forcing the issue...

Bx