Archive for January, 2009|Monthly archive page
Week 20
Filed under: Pregnancy | Tags: rotator cuff muscles, run, sling your baby, teach, theraband, toss your toddler, walk
Leave a comment Day 1
15 minute brisk walk
50 minute leisurely walk
10 minute walk to subway
10 minute walk with Mateo and 5 minute walk carrying Mateo
Yoga and stretches after running back and forth across the apartment and jumping over a puzzle box and the completed puzzle with Mateo. Mateo joined in the stretches also.
Day 2
15 brisk walk
10:30 Taught Toss Your Toddler dance class
11:30 Taught Sling Your Baby dance class
15 minute brisk walk
Day 3
15 minute walk
30 minute moderate walk
10 minute run to get home
Day 4
15 minute brisk walk
20 minute moderate walk
10:05 25 minute brisk walk (from Flatbush Ave and Prospect Place to Livingston and Smith street)
10:50 15 minute brisk walk from Livingston and Smith streets to Bridge Street and home)
Pedometer: 9950 Steps
Walk to park and throw rocks in the water, carried Mateo home.
Pedometer: 11949 Steps
Day 5
No organized activity: walked and ran at times around Ikea in Brooklyn while chasing Mateo
Day 6
No organized activity: some stretches, lots of cleaning, mopping, dusting etc, short 8 minute walk to store and 8 minute back.
Day 7
6:00 am 15 minute brisk walk plus warm up with client, 7:10 2nd warmup with different client, 1 set of rotator cuff exercise with therabands.
8:05 am 20 minute brisk walk
Pedometer: 4320 steps
2:45 pm Scootercise to Brooklyn Dojo for Creative Movement Class.
3:15 Lot’s of running, jumping, dancing for 45 minutes
4:25 pm More scootercise to get home, indirectly.
Pedometer: 9126 Steps (not quite 10,0000, but pretty good for a pregnant mom…)
Week 19
Filed under: Pregnancy | Tags: airplane, cleaning, jog, laundry, stretches, walk
Leave a comment Day 1
Short walk with Mateo, at his pace, then jog while he ran two blocks, then carried him on my shoulders for 10 minutes.
Day 2
Travel day home, some leg stretches on the airplane.
Day 3
Nothing: home cleaning and laundry — nothing like being home to have to do all the chores again…..
Day 4
15 minute brisk walk
10 minute brisk walkk
20 minute super brisk walk (bitter cold walk from Brooklyn Heights to Dumbo)
Day 5
30 minutes stepping at home, light stretching
Day 6
light walking, lots of cleaning
Day 7
10 minutes carrying Mateo in Ergo, Taught 45 minute Creative Movement Class
25 minute leisurely walk home
Week 18
Filed under: Pregnancy | Tags: abs, back, ballet, leg lifts, pool, ran, side plank, stretches, sun salutations, swimming, tree pose, triangle
Leave a comment Day 1
Ran 35 minutes. Again as before, walked up the hill, sun salutes with chaturanga and side plank,
short tennis (5-10) minutes
pool – light playing/swimming, very light
more pool @ 45 minutes
Day 2
Lots of pool, stretches, abs, back extensions, leg lifts all in the pool. 10 laps, then 4 more laps in the pool, one of them while carrying Mateo- that was really really hard, very winded.
Day 3
30 minute run, stetches, 1 hour pool playing and ballet in the pool.
Day 4
30 minute run, 15 minute sun salutes, side plank, triangle, tree pose
Some ballet and stretches in the pool 1 hour or more in the pool
rode in car
Day 5
Nothing
Day 6
25 minutes on treadmill approximately 3 1/2 miles. Treadmills are boring, at least for the first 15 minutes! Leg stretches and lots of chasing Mateo for 2 1/2 hours all over a tennis club.
Day 7
Nothing
Week 17
Week 17, Day 1
Recorded my activity on this day, but can’t find where I wrote it…..Not sure I did much activity anyway. Packed to go on vacation.
Day 2
No exercise, no sleep, airplane most of the day, some leg stretches.
Day 3
Short walk around park, 2 sets 5 pushups on bench, 1 set rows on playscape, some light leg stretches.
Day 4
30 minute walk in mall. 4 or 5 downward dogs to make tunnels for a train to pass through.
Day 5
Rode in a car all day, played in a swimming pool with Mateo, 8 or 10 short laps, light stretching. Felt great to move after 6 days of travel and car riding and not moving. Left shoulder hurts though.
Day 6
Ran 35 minutes, walked a bit up the hill, it was too intense after 6 days of not running, felt a bit in the ligaments of the uterus and Braxton hicks contractions, but no much, did 4 rounds sun salutes, side planks and other stretches
2 1/2 hours in and out of the pool
1 hour more in and out of the pool later.
Day 7
swam 10 laps (4 breast stroke, 2 on my back and 4 side stoke) kept my face out of the water, personal preference to not put my face in the water. Swam a bit with Mateo keeping moving all the time.
