I am Andrea Ramirez, and I am a fitness trainer, prenatal and postnatal specialist, and I am pregnant, I'm 25 weeks now. Sometimes we don't have time, we don't have space, and we get frustrated with what can we do and what can we not do. So I just want to show you a quick workout, quick exercises that you can do anywhere, you can do it literally watching TV, and it's going to be very good for you and for your baby. So let's do it.
All right, so I like to grab a towel, because that gives me some resistance on my back and shoulders, and I'm just going to hold it here. I'm going to open my legs very wide and I'm just going to do pulses here. This is great to target your inner thighs. You can do about 20, 25 of this. I'm just touching the couch a little bit. Yeah, the chair, just a little bit there. So you do 20, 25. Then I like to do this for my bra line, for the back. Breathe in, breathe out. Some people do not feel comfortable reaching their arms up, so this is something that I want to tell you, listen to your body. So if you are okay, if you feel okay, then do it. If not, just stick with this, okay? You can do, again, about 20, 25, even 30 reps. It feels really good because when we're pregnant we retain more fat cells because our body is trying to save energy obviously, and hormones are going nuts. So it's very important to stay active, even if it's short workouts.
Another exercise I love to do is for my bum, so what you do is just grab a chair or something, lift one leg and do donkey kicks here. I like to do pulses because it really feels deep right on my bum. You're not putting any pressure on your abs, any pressure on your abdominals at all, right? Because we want to avoid ab separation. Then you can do about 25 or 30, and then switch leg, breathe. Yep, and what I do is do about three to four rounds. I repeat all of that. Breathe. All right. Then sit back. I like to work on the inner thighs. So what I like to do too is I just lift and open here like that, so I'm really sitting on the edge of the chair and I am just opening there. If you have some weights, small weights, you can also be doing some arms and holding it there so you're toning your upper body as well. Breathe.
Then, of course, you can do tricep dips. So you relax your abs and then make sure that you just come slow and listen to your body again. All right? You don't want to feel that anything that you're doing is hurting you or hurting your baby, right? It's important to be really careful. Drink lots of water, everyone, and make sure that you do not overheat and that you do not overdo anything, okay?
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