Weekly Strides: Is It Safe to Run during Pregnancy? Should I Start Running in My Third Trimester If I Haven't Been Running up to This Point? - Ep. 11
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Is it safe to run during pregnancy? Should I start running in my third trimester if I haven't been running up to this point?
I can’t answer that question fully for you. And I know you’re going to roll your eyes, it’s the last answer you want to hear, but I’m going to revert to what you knew I might say, which is ask your doctor about your specific situation. BUT, or AND, to give you my best suggestion on what I would do, I would need to know a few things. Primarily why you have not been running up to this point. If it was something that stopped you running, I would ask you why it’s okay now and if it is really worth it at this point when your body has been responding better to something else or at least been getting by with something else.
Generally, yes, it is safe to run during pregnancy, and I likely have answers to all your questions about running in pregnancy and during the postpartum period in a few different places. I created an audio series that has interviews with experts that will give you all those answers; you can find that here. I also created a written pregnancy and postpartum guide with everything I have learned since having my two daughters. I asked multiple experts to answer each question I had in this guide, so it is very extensive. You can find that here. I would check those out first, and again, check in with your doctor or healthcare provider to discuss whether it is okay for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends and welcome to weekly strides, your Wednesday update post, where I will |
| 0:17.2 | be answering one of your questions that you have either emailed to me, but it's been |
| 0:21.3 | asked in running for your superstars that has been asked on various other places that |
| 0:26.3 | you have wondered. I decided to take your questions and begin to answer them so that you |
| 0:31.2 | could have my real, raw, rambling answer rather than, you know, most places that we go, it tends |
| 0:38.4 | to be a very sterile, very factual, but there's just not really any emotion in it. So this is |
| 0:46.0 | my way of allowing you to submit your questions, get a real answer to it. Future episodes |
| 0:52.2 | of weekly strides, we will be featuring listeners. So if you want to be considered for that, please |
| 0:58.3 | let us know. And we will also be bringing on previous guests to check in with how they are. If you |
| 1:03.8 | have a question you would like to submit, you can email catatrunningforreal.com, that's KAT |
| 1:09.6 | at runningforreal.com, and I look forward to answering your questions soon. Let's get to it. |
| 1:14.7 | Is it safe to run during pregnancy? Should I start running in my third trimester if I haven't been |
| 1:25.1 | running up to this point? I can't answer that question fully for you, and I know you're going to |
| 1:31.6 | roll your eyes. That's the last answer you wanted to hear. And I'm unfortunately going to revert to |
| 1:37.4 | the one thing you know I might say, which is ask your doctor about your specific situation, |
| 1:43.6 | but or and to give you my best suggestion on what I would do, I would need to know a few things, |
| 1:50.9 | or at least have you think about a few things. Primarily, why have you not been running up to this |
| 1:55.0 | point? If it was something that stopped you running, I would ask you why it's okay now, and |
| 2:00.4 | is it really worth it at this point when your body has been responding better to something else, |
| 2:05.0 | or at least been getting by with something else? Generally, yes, it's safe to run during pregnancy, |
| 2:12.4 | and you know, we've seen so many inspiring stories over the last few years about women who have |
| 2:17.7 | shown that they can, you know, continue to maintain fitness. They can do things that will once |
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