Post number 50! I feel like I should celebrate!
Well, baby number two is starting to feel real. I'll be fourteen weeks tomorrow and this week we had a first ultrasound, so I guess I can get the news out in the open now. Some of you may already know if you're family or have guessed by my hints (e.g., Maggie's birthday picture of her and the baby doll).
I find one of my biggest worries this time around is staying fit. When I was pregnant with Maggie, I was constantly running after second graders or down the hallway to get copies. In addition, Mike and I had the lovely Lehi Legacy Center (a family gym in town) and would go swimming, play basketball, or do the elipticals there anywhere from zero to three times a week. After Maggie was born I had a speedy recovery. I don't know if I was really in that great shape or not, but I like to think there is a relationship there.
At the beginning of this pregnancy I was walking a lot and even ran a couple times. I know some people run/jog throughout the entire duration of their pregnancy, but I must be not be as tough as those ladies because I tend to get sick or shaky if I run much the first couple months and it gets uncomfortable around the halfway point when I can feel the baby bouncing around. But I digress. Over the past few weeks as the weather has gotten hotter and we have had several rainy days, I have been less inclined to get out walking.
And so I have a confession to make. Last week I found myself checking out pregnancy workout DVDs online. Many online reviews later, I ordered three on walmart.com with the free site-to-store delivery (our Walmart is right down the street). They came in today, a week before the earliest delivery date, and I immediately picked them up and tried Leisa Hart's
Fit Mama.
I enjoyed it. It started with an upbeat aerobic dance workout, which was why I had picked it. I have come to terms with the fact that I am not one of those super slow yoga people and a lot of pregnancy workout tapes seem geared toward those. Hart does have a little yoga on her tape, but it's at a good pace and felt good after the aerobic portion. I just can't stand when the whole workout is listening to some person talk forever about your core and natural line or whatever and you don't do much besides breathe. The workout didn't really make me sweat, but I felt a little tired after it. Besides I don't sweat that much, so that's probably not the best gauge for me. It also took me back to when my sister Becca and I were little and would put on our leotards and do my mom's Kathy Smith 30-minute Workout tape. The other benefit was that Maggie thought it was really funny to watch me dance around with the video.
I haven't decided if I am going to also keep both Denise Austin's Fit and Firm Pregnancy and Madeleine Lewis's Buns of Steel: Pregnancy Workout but I very well may. I think having a few DVDs to rotate through will keep me from getting bored and all three are a lot cheaper and more convenient for my current stage of life than a month's gym membership.
Don't worry. I still plan to do real things like get out on walks and go to the local pool with Maggie once a week or so. But this gives me peace of mind for those days in between. I'll let you know how the other workouts go when and if I try them. The reviewers say the 80's outfits/music in Buns of Steel are to die for and Denise Austin's voice is annoying in Fit and Firm (but the workout is good), so lots to look forward to!
