Saturday, September 29, 2007

Training during pregnancy!

I am already 6 months pregnant!

We are very happy and excited with our baby girl coming in the next few months!

At the same time I am very excited to share with all you about my training during this important time where my body has been stolen :) by our beautiful girl.

I hear all the time..... Be careful, do not do this, do not do that, you are crazy, how about your joints and the weight, etc, etc, etc....

I agree with all of you! This is a very important time and all pregnant women should be more aware of their body and how every thing makes you feel. That is the reason why I am training the way I am.

Before my pregnancy I was training with 16 to 48 kilo kettlebells, Deadlifting 240 pounds and running a few miles just to mention a few of the activities I was doing.

At this time all my routines are based on full body conditioning. I use 12 kilo kettlebells and various body weights exercises.

I push myself but I keep the training at a comfortable level that are safe for my joints.

Also the good news for me is that my doctors are very open minded and have encouraged me to continue with my training routines ( using common sense of course)

I encourage all women to train during their pregnancy IF, and a very big IF it is, if they were previously training prior to getting pregnant and they have total permission from their OBGYN. If you are out of shape and have no history of training, pregnancy is not the time to start training. Ideally you would have started training months or even years before pregnancy.


Happy Mom, Happy Pregnancy, Happy Baby....... and Happy Husband :)

Sunday, September 09, 2007

A Great TSC!

An amazing group showed up to participate in the TSC in La Jolla.

Wow!!!! Those guys were very strong as were the girls!!!

Everyone was very focused and wanted to do their best.... and they really did.



Philip Davis is a BEAST!!!
No body could believe how strong he is.





Mike LoBoue as always bringing his whole team. You never know with Mike. He always shows up with a nice group of males and females.



We trained Jennifer Peters for 2 months. Wow!!! She did awesome!!! She didn't know any thing about Deadlifting and Pull Ups. The first time we tested her she did: Deadlift: 195 Pull Ups: 1 Snatch: 110 After two months of training she reached the following PRs: Deadlift: 230 Pull Ups: 7 Snatch: 139 Wow!!!! A big difference! Great Job Jennifer!!! Congratulations again!!!!



At the last minute, our good friend, RKC and now Revolution Fitness Team, Rhonda Fuller showed up to watch the competition. Franz encouraged her to be tested. I was so impressed with her. These are her numbers:




Deadlift: 265
Pull Ups:10
Snatch: 131






(Without a specific training program for this competition) She is unbelievably strong!!


Check Franz's Blog (http://franztrainingblog.blogspot.com) to see more comments and all the results from the TSC in La Jolla!!


My respect and congratulations to everyone!!!!!!!