As a new mama you probably did a fair bit of preparation for your new arrival – buying car seats and cots and cute onesies. You might have read books on pregnancy or sat a hospital course on birth or breastfeeding.

But one thing that we...

You're athletic, you're competitive and you've just done the hardest workout of your entire life. No matter what your birth story, whether you laboured or didn't labour, you've just spent the last 9 months growing an entire human being.

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It's time to debunk the fact from the fiction about what REALLY are the high intensity functional exercises you shouldn't do in pregnancy, and WHY. 

1. Exercises For Time

This is no longer a race. Don't be tempted to ever choose intensity...

When you get to the 'bulk' of your pregnancy, (weeks 12-28), there's some advice out there about what you should start to avoid (which I'll touch on in my next blog entry). But where's the advice out there about exercises you can really enjoy...

I'd love to share with you a few insights, as an athlete, that I wish I knew when I found out I was pregnant. 

Now you may be past the point of just finding out you're pregnant, that's ok. It's still great to reflect on the things we tell...