Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we're talking about exercise and pregnancy.

So I am currently pregnant. I finally announced on Instagram. I'm entering my second trimester due in March

2024 so I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about exercise and fitness during

pregnancy. How should we exercise during pregnancy, what specific exercise changes happen in

each trimester. I want to talk about can you gain muscle during pregnancy or should that even

be the goal? So these are all things that I want to address today.

So first I will be referencing our prenatal program a lot in this episode so I want to talk

about that just a bit so that we're on the same

page and you're not lost. So I'm the founder of Evelo Fitness which is our online

fitness platform. It's group fitness classes that I teach and then our two other

or three other instructors who are also

doctors of physical therapy teach and we just launched our new prenatal

program that starts at week six and will continue throughout your entire

pregnancy so this program is and will continue throughout your entire pregnancy.

So this program is following my pregnancy in real time.

So I'll film a week of classes

and then release it the very next week.

So let's say you're in week 12. You can go to week 12 of the

program and you'll find all five classes for the week that I taught during my

week 12. Then you know then we'll drop week 13 and you'll find five new classes that I taught during my week 13

and so on throughout my entire pregnancy.

So what's nice is that you won't have to repeat the same classes over and over

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