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.
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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Show Notes:
02:40 - What Heather's philosophy of health and training looked like for the first set of kids vs the second
06:10 - What we think about as it relates to training and nutrition while you're trying to get pregnant
08:10 - The value of strength, or increasing strength, before pregnancy
10:45 - Talking about how acupuncture may have helped us
13:00 - What happens in the gym after pregnancy
18:00 - How we work with pregnant members at CFNE
22:45 - What it looks like to come back to training postpartum
24:30 - How CFNE makes sure individual coaches are prepared to work with mothers coming back to training
28:45 - Why Heather doesn't trust books when it comes to pregnancy-related tips
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