The #1 Pregnancy Diet and Exercise Trap That Will Sabotage Your Pregnancy Fitness Program

By admin On October 5, 2009 Under Blog

As a pregnant woman one of the last things you want to accompany your baby bump is a soft and wobbly body, complete with bingo wings, muffin tops and back hamsters, but the problem for a lot of us is that no matter how many "toning" classes we go to at the gym or how long we spend on that blessed cross-trainer we never seem to get the results that we thought our pregnancy fitness program would give us.

Sound familiar?

Sure it does, I hear this same conversation going on all the time between pregnant mums who have given up all hope of keeping their pre-pregnancy body and have resigned themselves to getting fat during pregnancy.

So instead of realising that their pregnancy fitness program isn't working for them, they either try harder by adding in extra workouts or spending even longer on the cross trainer next time they are at the gym in the vain hope that something might start to shift.

Guess what?

Still nothing happens…

And why would it? It's already been proven not to work so adding extra hours on top is not going to help right?

If you are one of the thousands of women falling into this pregnancy diet and exercise trap every day, then listen up! In the words of Michael Jackson, "It's time to make a change".

You know, fitness during pregnancy needn't be a difficult task. It all comes down to two very simple things: Your pregnancy diet plan and your pregnancy fitness program.

Pregnancy Diet Plan

To get the body you dream of and to keep unwanted wobbly baby fat at bay you need to focus on eating only natural, wholesome, nutrient dense foods. That means that as much of your pregnancy diet as possible should come from either the ground, the sea, the land or the air.

All the non-natural stuff like preservatives, stabilisers, flavourings and other manufactured products should be rare or non-existant in your pregnancy meal plans.

This is because all of these non-natural substances are toxins that will pollute your system and tell your body to lay down fat. You see, the only way we can hold onto these toxins without getting sick is to deposit them somewhere where we are shielded from their poison and that is in the fatty tissue. So eliminate the toxins and you eliminate the excess fat.

Pregnancy Fitness Program

Your pregnancy fitness program NEEDS to be resistance based. Lean muscle is your fat fighting machinery and it is also what gives you tone and shape.

Resistance training builds lean muscle. Training at a moderate intensity for 15 minutes daily and working compound major muscle groups will get you fit for pregnancy and help you get the toned pregnant body you dream of.

By contrast long aerobic sessions on the cross trainer or 60 minute classes which have you doing 100's of repetitions will burn lean muscle. If you burn off your lean muscle you have nothing to fight the flab, so you end up soft and wobbly and an hour less of your day to enjoy!

So here's what you need to do to get your pregnancy diet and exercise plan to work FOR you:

Ban all processed foods, including sugar, wheat, caffeine, alcohol, milk and cheese from your pregnancy diet plan. Instead fill up on nutrient dense foods that are going to help you and your baby thrive, like fruits and vegetables, animal proteins and non processed grains like quinoa, millet and rice.

Find a specific pregnancy fitness program that focuses on short sharp burst resistance training that will rev up your metabolism, reshape your pregnant body and support your pregnancy posture. It doesn't need to take all day - 15 minutes is perfectly adequate as long as you are working at the right intensity.

Be prepared for change! If you follow these two simple principles you will see a dramatic change within just 14 days!