Posted on 04/29/2016 2:30:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pregnancy can make you sick, slow you down or even leave you bedridden. But some women aren't letting a baby on the way get in the way of their daily CrossFit routine - lifting for two all the way up until the day they deliver.
It's 9 a.m, and the day is just beginning for the crew at Vitruvius CrossFit in Provo, Utah. Six days a week, never missing a beat. Barbells, deadlifts, and squats. It's a high intensity workout, not for the weak.
Chrisi Hammer has caught the CrossFit craze, and not much can stop her from missing a class.
She’s nine months pregnant, expecting a baby girl any day. While many women avoid lifting heavy objects during pregnancy, she's breaking personal records - back squatting 210 pounds and front squatting 285.
“Everyone just keeps teasing me that I have this pregnancy strength, cause I`m stronger now than I was before I got pregnant," Hammer said.
Hammer joined CrossFit two years ago, as a way to get the baby weight off from her previous pregnancies, and the results were incredible.
So when Hammer and her husband Matt announced baby number three would be joining their blended family, the very next morning they were back at the gym.
During her first pregnancy, she gained almost 80 pounds, this time around she's gained only 30. The only thing she's done differently is CrossFit.
Peter Rechman, who owns Vitruvius CrossFit, said the exercise program is becoming more popular among pregnant women.
”We had one woman, whose water broke here in the gym and she went straight to the hospital," Rechman said.
But these workouts aren't coming without controversy, attracting heavy criticism on social media. Many people are asking if these workouts are safe and others are accusing the soon-to-be moms of endangering their baby
Emily Breeze, a CrossFit games athlete and trainer, kept up her routine and fought back.
“I am completely baffled that people would think I’d do anything that would harm my baby ... I won`t allow someone`s uneducated opinion to deter my doctor-approved workouts," Breeze wrote in an Instagram post.
They told her to “push” and she probably shot that kid halfway across the delivery room.
What women used to be like during pregnancy.
No biggy, my wife was waiting tables after teaching all day the night before my first son was born. Crossfit bahhh.
Lol! The doc with a catchers mit.
I was a drywall finisher. Doc said no problem with me still working since I was used to it.
Crossfit, an expensive way to tear your labrum or get rhabdo...
Crossfit Moms are hot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhQS8ft4jw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlWIZ49H3YE
What is the SINGLE THING missing from this thread.
There is something.
What is it?
I tried to post the picture, but it didn’t work for me.
“The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.”
“The first rule of Crossfit is to never shut up about Crossfit”
Ah..! okay.
Sorry.
What is a “blended” family..?
both the text and the TV station voice-over gave that description, and I can’t figure it out.
The family appears to have one race, yet it is “blended”.
In ballet training in college there was one girl who was pregnant and she worked her a$$ off practicing. I admired her work ethic. I never knew her name. Then I became pregnant, I was probably three months behind her and quit at about three months along. But she continued on, big as a barn door leaping across the floor every day, doing bar work two, three, four hours a day, maybe more, she was always there whenever I was and stayed after I left. Me, I wasn’t obsessed like she was.
Anyway, time passed, I had my baby, and probably a year-and-a-half later I came back to the classes. One day I spied her and went over and said something like this: “How are you? How is your baby? Did you have a boy or a girl? Mine is talking and she’s starting to learn her colors and,” blah blah blah, on I went. Finally I said, “So, how’s your baby doing?”
She replied stonefaced: “My baby was born retarded.”
Of course I felt horrible, expressed my sorrow and slunk away. Now that I think about it, it was right about then I quit the classes.
I’ve always wondered if all that dancing and training had anything to do with it.
10,000% true dat..!
Same same for spinning Nazi’s.
Good, God...
I’m not a fan of CrossFit. It’s all about number of reps with lack of proper form. Their pull-ups drive me crazy. That said, good for her.
What’s missing? Glenn Beck rubbing his face in it?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/glenn-beck-cheetos-video-trump
Many are born ok, but why gamble and what are you trying to prove. It's selfish. You either care enough to protect the baby or you don't. No further discussion can convince me otherwise.
My anorexic SIL worked out until birth and right after, I think she waited one day then started up again. She lost weight during pregnancy except the basketball belly. Clearly her kids had lowish birth weights. But the biggest fear was fat. Top priority.
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