Jamie Onekawa's Baby Blog part 3, September 2012

I’m almost 25 weeks now, so the baby is around 34cm long and weighing nearly 700 grams. I’m starting to feel lots of movement and kicking which is such a cool feeling. Last time I wrote I was 18 weeks and hopeful that my morning sickness was going away. Unfortunately that ended up being one of my worst weeks and it’s still bothering me now, but it seems to come in waves.

Luckily the sickness isn’t getting in the way of healthy eating now, I’m mostly managing to stick to my usual foods of protein shakes, oats, chicken, salad or veges, rice and corn thins. It’s funny because I actually find it difficult to eat six meals now, my stomach seems to be all squished up with bubs taking up all the room.

   

Having got my eating back on track and starting to have a little bit more energy I’ve been desperate to get back to some form of exercise, so to work around my sickness and long work days, I’ve taken to doing both cardio and workouts at home. It’s so strange to go from easily being able to do 45-60 minutes of cardio and a big weights workout everyday to only being able to manage one or the other. I seem to get far too tired if I try and do both, so I alternate what I do each day.

For cardio I either go for a walk or hop on my bike at home. For the days where I do a workout I have bought some yoga and pilates DVDs that I do or I choose some exercises that I enjoy and can do at home. Because it’s been so long since I’ve trained with weights I actually find the workouts good and they still make me a little sore even when not using weight.

Here’s an example of one:

20 push ups

20 sumo squats

20 dips

20 lunges

20 side delt raises (3kg dumbbells)

20 step ups

Repeat 3-5 times

The great thing about working out like this is I can also do it at my own pace. It’s important to still try and do some form of exercise when your pregnant as it really helps when it comes to giving birth and also when you get back into training post-pregnancy. I’m definitely feeling a bit more energised since getting active again, but I really can’t wait to hit the gym hard once our baby arrives.

I also found this workout that Gina Alotti (IFBB Figure Pro) posted on Facebook:

10 push ups

20 squats

30 lunges

40 sit ups

50 second wall sit

90 second jumping jacks

50 second wall sit

40 sit ups

30 lunges

20 squats

10 push ups

Also performed as a circuit. Although for me I’m not too keen on jumping exercises and sit ups at this point, they’re uncomfortable for my growing tummy.

That’s all from me this week, hopefully the circuit workouts are helpful for some of you. If any of you have anything you want me to blog about please let me know, you can contact me on my Facebook page www.facebook.com/JamieOnekawa.

I’ve left you with a couple of baby bump pics from week 23, enjoy:)

Jamie
September 2012

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