Strength Training for Moms: Nikki's Journey through Pregnancy, Postpartum, & Unstoppable Consistency

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Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health, Diet, Fitness, Weightlifting, Barbelltraining, Strengthtraining

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this inspiring episode, Nikki Sims and Andrew Jackson sit down with two of Barbell Logic's most recognizable names: Nikki Berman (Director of Client Experience) and Coach Bekah Creek (PT and longtime BLOC coach). Together, they dive deep into what strength training for moms really looks like—during pregnancy, postpartum, deployments, sleepless nights, and every chaotic season in between.

Nikki shares the full arc of her journey: from chasing "skinny" through extreme dieting and cardio, to discovering barbell training, to becoming a mother of four and finding her strongest, most capable self along the way. Her candid stories—including training through nausea, the realities of relaxin, managing back-to-back pregnancies, and an unexpected home birth—offer a rare, empowering look at motherhood through the lens of strength.

Coach Bekah walks through the coaching side: how to modify programming for pregnant or postpartum clients, when to push, when to pull back, and why the marathon mindset of "something is better than nothing" can be transformational for busy moms. Together, they illustrate how strength training can anchor a woman through the most demanding phases of life.

Whether you're a mother, a future mother, a coach working with pregnant/postpartum clients, or simply someone looking for hope and consistency, this conversation highlights the resilience and adaptability that define strength training for moms.

What You'll Learn in This Episode

Why strength matters so much for pregnant and postpartum women
How to modify training through each trimester
The surprising benefits of tonnage-based and RPE-based programming
How to navigate fatigue, nausea, sleep deprivation, and childcare
Why "all or nothing" breaks moms—and how to replace it with a sustainable mindset
The physical and emotional realities of postpartum recovery
How coaching support changes everything for new moms
The story behind Nikki's unplanned, fast home birth
Why taking up space—not shrinking—is the real goal
How strength training helps moms show up better for their kids and themselves

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0:00.0	You're listening to Beast Overburden, powered by Barbell Logic.
0:06.2	We're Nikki and Andrew, your personal, professional coaches.
0:09.0	We help you take control of your fitness through hard but doable training and nutrition practices that fit your busy life.
0:17.0	Build a stronger, healthier version of yourself with lifelong habits.
0:24.7	All right. Welcome everybody to this week's episode of Beast Overburden powered by Barbell Logic.
0:30.4	It's me, Nikki Sims, with Andrew Jackson.
0:32.7	Hello.
0:33.1	Hello. And we have two celebrities, I would call them, in the Barbell Logic sphere.
0:41.1	If you have been a client of Barbell Logic, you have definitely interacted with Nikki Berman.
0:47.4	Hey, Nikki.
0:48.2	Hey, thanks for having me.
0:49.6	Thanks for being here.
0:50.8	She is our director of client experience.
0:52.7	She is a strength coach and a nutrition coach. And she, as her coach, just called her the queen of consistency, which we're going to get to.
1:02.5	BL3K. BL3K. Unreal. Yeah. If you don't know what we're talking about, we have like an awards program here at Barbell
1:12.7	Logic.
1:13.7	When you hit a thousand workouts, we have a special gift package that we sent everybody because
1:17.6	hitting a thousand workouts takes a lot.
1:20.8	So Nikki has over 3,300 workouts.
1:24.7	So that takes 33 times as much, right?
1:27.2	Or the 3.3.
1:28.3	3.3.
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