When I was pregnant with Patrick (Jr.) now 7, I asked my coach, Kerry, if there was much information on competitive swimming and training while pregnant. He didn't know of any. Since then I've had two more kids (now 3 and 4) and there's still nothing really about this subject.
So I'll use myself as a guinea pig, and maybe it will help others in the future...
This will be our last, and with this one, I'd like to have goals, unlike with the other three. Obviously, my number one goal is to have a healthy baby. My nutrition is key here, for the baby and myself. Sleep is crucial for me, so that too is a goal. Other goals are lifting, and minimum weight gain (I still have 20 from last time, mostly in my stomach!) and to swim in Austin and be somewhat competitive. My due date is January 20, 2008.
I'm afraid I will be put on bed rest near the end, because Carrick (3) was born 5 weeks early, and we don't know why. He spent 2 weeks in the Intensive Care, and is fine now. I read that the odds have gone up significantly for me now to have another early delivery. (With all of my other deliveries, by C-section, I swam the day I delivered and was back in the water two weeks later.)
Tomorrow, I will be 4 weeks pregnant. And while I swam Saturday (2,000 SCM- see Rude Noodlers thread) I didn't get to do the only practice today (Memorial Day) at 8:30am because Brenna (4) was still sleeping...
I have some questions, and I hope you will all pitch in your :2cents: Sorry, I don't make change :p
How do I modify weight lifting while pregnant?
Anybody do OW swims while pregnant (water temps around 70)?
Thanks!
I swam the whole week which I haven't done in years!
As I said last Friday was 2,000m
Monday was 2,500m
Tuesday was 3,000m
Wednesday was 3,000m
Thursday was 2,500m (a lot of specialty in that workout)
Friday was 3,000m.
I feel some sort of accomplishment, however the scale hasn't moved an inch. That's kind of depressing!
On that Th workout we did a broken 200 stroke (10 @ each 50). I did ***. My first 50 felt pretty good and I went :50 (from a push), however the next 50s were :54, :55, and :55! I willed myself through the last 2 because I REALLY wanted to stop. I just told myself to count my strokes (I usually take 25, and I did 28 on both laps- yup, I was hurtin'!!!) At least I now have a baseline for how much work I need to do...
Anyway, I thought it would be fun to have a pregnant blog, and maybe it will help, or inspire, other Masters in the future. However, I am no longer pregnant so I will end this blog. I will check it occasionally, although, I'm not one for really posting my workouts- I usually write them down in my little book.
Thanks to everyone for all of the well wishes and your support. And Finnian, at 3 weeks and 1 day, continues to do very well :angel:
I swam the whole week which I haven't done in years!
As I said last Friday was 2,000m
Monday was 2,500m
Tuesday was 3,000m
Wednesday was 3,000m
Thursday was 2,500m (a lot of specialty in that workout)
Friday was 3,000m.
I feel some sort of accomplishment, however the scale hasn't moved an inch. That's kind of depressing!
On that Th workout we did a broken 200 stroke (10 @ each 50). I did ***. My first 50 felt pretty good and I went :50 (from a push), however the next 50s were :54, :55, and :55! I willed myself through the last 2 because I REALLY wanted to stop. I just told myself to count my strokes (I usually take 25, and I did 28 on both laps- yup, I was hurtin'!!!) At least I now have a baseline for how much work I need to do...
Anyway, I thought it would be fun to have a pregnant blog, and maybe it will help, or inspire, other Masters in the future. However, I am no longer pregnant so I will end this blog. I will check it occasionally, although, I'm not one for really posting my workouts- I usually write them down in my little book.
Thanks to everyone for all of the well wishes and your support. And Finnian, at 3 weeks and 1 day, continues to do very well :angel:
