I remember that during my weeks 20 - 28 of my pregnancy, I started to experience sudden extreme and sharp pains in my tailbone (not upper back or lower back region, but specifically, the tailbone). Not a perpetual pain, but sharp, unpredictable pains depending on the angle of how my body is moving, leaning foward, moving around, etc. Like most people, I started to think that perhaps I needed to scale back on my intensity and frequency of my gym sessions - which is exactly what I did. I stopped going to the gym for about 6 weeks and instead replaced it with swimming breaststroke (head-up). As many pregnant women out there, I'm sure most of you would have read that swimming is highly beneficial for pregnant women due to the buoyancy which takes pressure and weight off our joints.
However, my backpain was not going away nor getting any better. In fact, it seemed to make it worse.
Eventually, about 3 weeks ago, I decided to resume my cardio and strength training exercises at the gym, as how I was doing from weeks 1 - 20. Believe it or not, my backpain actually seemed to improve, (i don't have to walk around with an umbrella that doubles as a walking stick anymore!) and occurrence became less frequent.
I have to say though that I do not know exactly what type of exercise specifically helps with the backpain. As my sessions at the gym comprises always of the following:
- 25mins of elliptical trainer, alternating between 2 levels of intensity, each at about 5-8mins.
- 3 reps of 15x of shoulders, biceps, arms, triceps and back
- 3 reps of 15x of butt and quads
Total time each session: 1 hr.
So for others like me out there who's having backpains during pregnancy, do continue with your exercise regime (i'm pretty sure yoga/pilates would work just as well). Experiment which works for you. I promise, you'll feel much better after exercising.
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