#099: CrossFitting While Pregnant
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Heather stops by to talk about how she thought about doing CrossFit while she was pregnant, and we answer some listener questions about what training and nutrition advice we'd give for folks before, during, and post pregnancy.
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| 0:00.0 | When we had the first miscarriage, I think I was going into it feeling like |
| 0:08.0 | Like I want to stay really fit. I want to I I still have like my own personal goals |
| 0:12.3 | And I'm going to do my thing and and I I think if you ask any doctor |
| 0:16.5 | They would say like you didn't probably you probably didn't cause a miscarriage |
| 0:20.3 | But there were I can remember there being like a time in my head where I'm like |
| 0:24.1 | God, I don't know if I should have been working out in that heat or if I should have maybe I shouldn't have been running that much or |
| 0:29.6 | I don't know you know like and I have moments where I'm questioning it and so after that when we got pregnant |
| 0:35.6 | Then the thing he told me that kept resonating in my head was like just whatever you do like you like if it's a question |
| 0:43.3 | It's it's not safe |
| 0:46.1 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control |
| 0:50.6 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat sleep, train, think and connect with each other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness |
| 0:58.9 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible our mission is to live on the run always chasing |
| 1:07.1 | Never stop |
| 1:09.0 | Hello, and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. We are joined today by a special guest |
| 1:14.4 | How are you Heather? I'm great. How are you good? We are we have we brought you in because I've been getting a lot of questions from listeners as it relates to |
| 1:22.9 | pregnancy and where fitness and nutrition meet pregnancy |
| 1:28.2 | And as much as Ben has lots of good answers. I thought perhaps you might have better answers as it relates to this |
| 1:33.6 | So we want to bring in and I've got some listener questions |
| 1:37.2 | We'll we'll put them in where they see where I see fit there, but I wanted to start with |
| 1:43.3 | Just a little bit of context to you because you're in a really unique position where you had two kids |
| 1:51.8 | How many years ago now what's what's Joan and now 15? |
| 1:55.4 | Jonas 15 Maya is 19. Okay, so you've got two kids there and then Bodian Harlier in the five to seven |
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