Pregnancy Week 38: Stepdown Snatches

Another Tuesday and I'm still pregnant! I was noticing with my MIL that because Asher came at 37.5 weeks, we act like Baby #2 will come along any day now, even though I am 1.5 weeks away from my due date still. Well, that day is not yet here, so I decided to try out snatches while I could. This morning's workout took me a while to get started since I had been experiencing intermittent mild contractions overnight and even though I was not currently having any contractions, I wasn't sure if I should even be doing any activity "just in case". I picked up the 8 kg (18 pounds) and did a few snatches. At this weight, it was light enough not to be very taxing aerobically or strength-wise, but enough to help me go through the functional movements that are so important to healthy movement and this exercise itself.

Activity:
KB snatches
20/20/10/10 (8 kg) R/L alternating with 15/15/15/15 R/L (10 kg) x 5, for 600 total snatches. This felt great during and afterwards!

Breakfast:
Vitamix drink (1 C coconut milk, 2 handfuls organic baby spinach, 4 Tbsp organic ground flaxseed, 2 Tbsp chia seed, 1/2 C blueberries)

Lunch:
Homemade chicken soup with carrots and dates
Handful Organic dark chocolate chips

First Dinner:
Chicken (from lunch) with stir-fried Chayote squash, celery salt

Second Dinner (10:30 p.m., I got hungry!):
Leftover stirfried chicken with Chayote squash in celery salt

Fluid:
6 cups water

Pregnancy Week 38: A Little This, A Little That

Looks like it took 2 days for my pelvis to recover from that Saturday run! As I mentioned after the run, my pelvis was pretty wonky. It continued that way, accompanied by erratic, occasional contractions throughout the next day. It felt more stable this morning, even though I practically laid in bed all night not sleeping. Grrrr.... Monday is a running day, but it was raining pretty hard and as you know, I don't have the rain shield for the double stroller. I did a light workout during Asher's naptime, instead.

Activity:
Good mornings (12 kg) 8 x 15
TGU (10 kg) x 10 minutes

Breakfast (again, no appetite):
3/4 banana (Asher wanted some)
1 Organic Fuji apple with almond butter

Morning snack:
1/2 handful mixed roasted nuts

Lunch:
Small bowl leftover stirfry: Organic ground beef, onions, garlic, kale, celery, various mushrooms, salsa
1 GF paleo Chocolate chip raisin scone

Afternoon snack:
Handful organic dark chocolate chips

Dinner:
Medium bowl of Spicy sausage/Pineapple sausage with steamed broccoli
Valentines Day Cheat dessert: Shared 1 slice of chocolate cake and 1 slice of red velvet cake with Adam and Asher. Eight bites of Ben & Jerry's Pumpkin cheesecake ice cream.

Fluid:
6 cups water

Pregnancy Week 37: Catch Me if You Can!

Over the weekend, I've been having more frequent nighttime contractions. We briefly entertained the idea of becoming parents of two yesterday afternoon when I had been having increasingly uncomfortable contractions throughout lunch. Obviously, that stopped, since I'm still pregnant today! Last night, I didn't get much sleep since the contractions were pretty uncomfortable and frequent. This morning, however, things have gone mostly back to normal, so being that it's Monday, I did my normal thing, went running!

Activity:
30 min run with Asher in double stroller, medium pace. My feet were sore the entire time, but we finished before it started to rain! Yay!

Breakfast:
2 sunnyside up Omega 3 eggs with sauteed spinach, medium salsa and 1/2 avocado
1/2 banana

Lunch (not hungry at all!):
1 GF paleo Chocolate chip raisin scone

Dinner:
Pan-fried wild Cod seasoned with sea salt, pepper and dried dill with medium salsa
Fresh tomatoes
8 ounces Monavie with glucosamine
1 plum

Dessert:
3 bites of Adam's chocolate cake/red velvet cake

Fluid:
7 cups water

Pregnancy Week 37: RKC Snatch Test

Welcome to Full-Term Pregnancy! I am officially 37 weeks pregnant today, which means that if I were to go into labor at any time from now on, nothing would be done to stop it! I mentioned previously that Asher was born at 37.5 weeks. This new little one will likely be making an appearance sooner rather than later as well.

Since I may not be pregnant anymore come Tuesday (my snatch workout day), I decided to do snatches today. The particular workout is the Russian Kettlebell Challenge (RKC) Snatch Test. At certification, each candidate must snatch a KB of designated weight (corresponding to the candidate's bodyweight) 100 times within a five minute time period. Multiple hand switches are allowed, as is putting down the bell. As with my first pregnancy, being able to complete this snatch test near the end of the pregnancy was particularly important to me. I am very blessed to be able to attempt it today:



Activity:
Five minute RKC snatch test (10 kg). I chose to do 20/20/20/20/10/10 R/L. In Feb 2010, I recertified, completing the snatch test with the 12 kg in 3:22. Today, I misspoke at the end of the video saying how much time I had left. I think I got my snatches done within 4 minutes...

Breakfast:
2 sunnyside up Omega 3 eggs w/ 1/2 avocado
2 GF paleo chocolate chip raisin scones (We got our first shipment of Honeyville Almond Flour, so I baked a double batch of the scones...compared to Bob's Red Mill almond flour, Honeyville is more fine, and has an aftertaste of sweet almond extract, very light), fresh from the oven!

Lunch (3:30 p.m.):
Cheat lunch at Red Robin Restaurant. I was having mild contractions at the time and didn't feel up to eating my usual (Bonzai burger). I had the soup/sandwich combo of New England Clam Chowder (cup) and BBQ chicken wrap (without Ranch dressing). I also had a few of Adam's steak fries with ketchup and a few slices of apple that came with Asher's meal. Water. Contractions continued throughout lunch.

Evening snack (not hungry):
10 blueberries

Fluid:
7 cups water