Fitness fanatic mum-to-be lifting 100kg weights-despite being 7 months pregnant

Fitness fanatic mum-to-be lifting 100kg weights-despite being 7 months pregnant

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The woman continues to work out for more than 12 hours a week and claims her training regime is perfectly safe for her baby

 

Fitness fanatic Katja regularly lifts weights of up to 100kg - despite being more than seven months pregnant.

She spends up to 12 hours a week at the gym combining weightlifting, endurance and gymnastics - which she balances with her full-time job as an events manager.

This is 39-year-old Katja’s first child, but she claims her extreme fitness regime is not damaging her baby.

She shares her passion for working-out with her partner Jason, who she met at a training session two years ago.


Intense: Katja has kept up her exercise regime despite being pregnant with her first child

Katja said: "I’ve read a lot about strength training and being pregnant. People say go with what feels good. If it doesn’t feel good then change it, modify it, stop it.

"If it feels fine, then continue."

In the clip, recorded for TV channel TLC, Dr Helen Bickerstaff, a consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician, did not recommend Katja’s intense training regime.

Strength: Katja still leaves weights of 100kg even though she is seven months pregnant

She explained: "Moderate exercise is recommended for all women in pregnancy but women need to know when to stop.

"They need to know when to take care of themselves, to stop themselves getting dehydrated which might lead to an increased risk of deep-vein thrombosis.

"And the risk of doing things like fainting during exercise where they might damage themselves and indeed their baby if they were to fall on the abdomen or drop weights on the abdomen."

 

Courtesy: London Mirror