CrossFit and Pregnancy
Myths and Modifications — Personal Experience
I’ve been a CrossFitter for just over a year. Nine months of that first year, I also spent pregnant. I dispelled two myths about CrossFit in 2018; doing CrossFit will cause you to look like a body builder, aka, by those that don’t know better, —have the “CrossFit body”, and that CrossFit isn’t safe while you are pregnant. I was no exception to these misstatements looking in at this sport from the outside. While learning that I couldn’t achieve a “CrossFit body” no matter how hard I tried, (somewhere, Paige Semenza is throwing her head back in laughter envisioning me thinking I could ever actually have a body like hers with my workout routine and addiction to food) I do have a better body thanks to CrossFit. I was able to gain strength, energy, and stamina all while pregnant. I was able to take better care of my body (and even my brain) during pregnancy through CrossFit. Here’s how with my own personal experience and a brief guide at the end with my actual modifications as to what I learned to do and more importantly, not to do, to compliment my growing body and baby.
“No. No CrossFit during pregnancy”. “You don’t want to do that. You don’t want to lift anything, really”. I was three months in to starting CrossFit and finally over the — I’m going to die doing one of these workouts — hump. I was in a…
