Episode 444: How To Coach Or Treat Highly Athletic Women In Pregnancy
In today’s episode, Jessie Mundell and Anita Lambert discuss coaching highly athletic pregnant clients who often want to keep training. They stress individualized assessment beyond workout programming, including motivations, body image history, and mental health. Alongside physical factors like pelvic floor symptoms, fatigue, nausea, sleep disruption, and capacity changes.
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Show Notes
01:01 – Jessie’s Live online workshop – Leaking During Workouts Promo
02:25 – Introducing the topic of todays episode
03:30 – Why this is more than just their workout programming
03:40 – The why
05:17 – Individualizing the approach
06:17 – Body image and identity
08:14 – Checking in through changes
10:15 – How do we challenge their workouts
11:03 – Balancing physical and mental symptoms
13:15 – Changes pregnancy to pregnancy
14:03 – How do we do this without coddling them?
15:35 – Key takeaways
