https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:42:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233667 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:13:54 +0000 DillonLion 233667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Can I come workout at your gym? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233666 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:13:27 +0000 Foodnerd81 233666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have belonged to one gym or another pretty consistently for about 7 years-- but I don't consistently go. I just rejoined my old gym, with more expensive but all women, which makes a big difference for me. Sorry, but guys smell bad at the gym! (Sorry Mr. Bee). I just feel more comfortable, and it's catered to the things that make going to the gym more pleasant for women-- more fun classes, full size towels for the shower, it's always clean and all the cardio machines have TVs, some with on demand!<br /> I've gained weight recently and really want to get into good shape before I get pregnant, to make the pregnancy a little easier, prepare myself for labor, make getting back in shape after easier. Plus, I want to take bump pictures and right now, i feel like I already look pregnant, so week 4 wouldn't be so much fun at all :( It's just hard to motivate myself to get there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233618 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:50:59 +0000 heffalump 233618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetchic: It's not at a gym, it's at a community swimming pool. There's a few pools around here that have it. It is awesome! I found it last year when I was pregnant in the hot hot summer, it was a life saver then! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233604 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:48:01 +0000 Meridian 233604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: AHHH, I wish my gym had water zumba!! I love regular zumba (going to a class tonight!), so that sounds awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233596 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:44:35 +0000 DillonLion 233596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jholler25: Same. Giving up working out every TWW means you miss half the month working out every month! I couldn't get in any kind of routine with that so I just kept up my workouts (including hot yoga) during the TWW. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233591 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:42:46 +0000 DillonLion 233591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a huge gym rat throughout college (I went daily and lost a lot of weight and got in great shape). I kept it up after college for awhile, and then got really into yoga and started going to a hot yoga studio most days, and supplementing with gym sessions occasionally. </p> <p>I still have my gym membership, but since I've been pregnant I've just been enjoying some light activity (walking, swimming, etc.) and I haven't been to the gym too many times. I'm actually hoping to go tonight to do a little weight training! I'd like to get some more strength back before labor/delivery. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233587 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:39:40 +0000 Pink Champagne 233587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There is no reason you can't work out normally in the TWW. In fact, if you're needing to lose some weight and are trying to get healthy, the working out as much as you can is only helping you.<br /> I'm 34 weeks pregnant, and other than reducing my cardio AFTER I found out I was pregnant to a slower pace (my doctor said I should be able to carry on a conversation while doing cardio) and lowering the weight on the weights I lift, I've worked out consistently the whole time. Obviously, there are things that are big no-nos while pregnant (hot yoga is one, boooo) but all the things you're currently doing at the gym are all GREAT for you! Keep it up, and definitely keep at it once you do get your BFP! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233320 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:24:11 +0000 heffalump 233320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coco Bee: Just like it sounds, zumba in the water! It's lots of fun, the instructor stands out of the water so you can see what you're doing, and they change the moves up a little bit from normal zumba to use the water. There's a lot of pushing the water around, etc. It's a good work out, and still a lot of fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233304 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:06:31 +0000 PrincessBaby 233304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetchic: Good for you! If you are going 4x a week, you'll see results soon, and I bet that will make you stay on track...That's what motivated me to stick with the whole gym thing back in the day when I first joined one. I went 3-4x a week in college and I saw results (in my arms I remember!) within about a month, and I was like, "Oh! I guess I'll keep up with this!" That was over 10 years ago, and the gym has been a regular part of my life ever since.</p> <p>I have managed to keep up with it while pregnant, at least in the second trimester (I had some minor complications in the first tri), and it makes me feel like I have some control over my body and/or how I look and feel pregnant. </p> <p>FWIW, I think you're fine to work out in your TWW:) I always wondered the same thing and would take it down a few notches in the TWW, but after 6 or 7 cycles of giving up my life for 2 weeks, I said "screw it" and I did hot yoga, etc, in the 2ww, and it was fine:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233263 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:16:52 +0000 BSB 233263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were part of a gym last year but haven't gone to the gym at all this year. Finances wise, things just started to turn around for us. (Woohoo!) So back to the gym! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233259 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:05:47 +0000 Sweet T 233259@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't. The gyms on post are free to military and their dependents though. I'm hoping to actually take advantage of that once we move in!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233249 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:37:38 +0000 BoogieBea 233249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We belong to la fitness too! We like that they have childcare. My husband motivatesme to go to the gym. He's very disciplined about working out. Going to spin class motivates me but I haven't gone since my last pregnancy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233240 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:22:17 +0000 Boogs 233240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never go to the gym, I don't know why, but all the ones I've ever been to I've had problems with gross guys harassing me so I couldn't work out in peace. Because of that, I haven't stepped inside of a gym since college when I had to for a class. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233095 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:29:44 +0000 Mrs. Pen 233095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: water zumba? Never heard of that! What's it like?</p> <p>I do, I do! I have a love/hate relationship with working out lol!! I love it once I'm done working out - but the process is so hard. I know it will get easier though and I hope I come to love it more. I am obsessed with the idea of the body I have in my mind and I will do anything to get it and that overpowers any dislike of working out!! I hate seeing myself in pictures at the weight I am, and that drive really gets me going!</p> <p>I actually just got back from a zumba class - this teacher was HARDCORE. It was the hardest workout I've ever had. It was insane. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-233029 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:53:36 +0000 mediagirl 233029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haaaate working out. I have wasted so much money on gym memberships I never used, I vowed to never join another. We have a treadmill and I can do 30 day shred at home. You know, when I get around to it... Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232955 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:43:20 +0000 Mrs. Bee 232955@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've had one off and on for the past 15 years. Off since Charlie was born! I worked out 3 times a week until I was 8 months pregnant with Charlie. You should be fine. Maybe that pregnancy was the one that stuck because i was in good shape! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232906 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:52:28 +0000 mrs. bird 232906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>that's great!! if you can find a way to fit it in to your routine, you're golden! </p> <p>i have a membership, actually, i have 3, lol =D i have one for work, i'm still a part of my mom's plan, and i'm on DH's. even with all of those, i still am not currently working out =/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232903 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:50:46 +0000 Grace 232903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup! I go 3 times a week and take step classes. They keep my interest longer than weights and treadmills. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232894 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:46:25 +0000 Smurfette 232894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am! It is a small gym associated with a church. I usually go at least 4 nights a week after work. Some nights I do classes, other just weights or cardio, or weight/cardio mix. I am 6 weeks and I am still going. Tonight I got a little nauseous when I was lifting weights so I did the elliptical and I felt fine doing that. </p> <p>My doctor told me whatever you were doing exercise wise before you got pregnant that this point I am fine to keep doing them. So it is a good thing that you are starting now before you get pregnant. </p> <p>Keep it up!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232890 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:41:11 +0000 chopsuey 232890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I quit after I had LO. Will join again 2 months after #2 is born! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232889 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:40:17 +0000 heffalump 232889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't. My MIL owns a gym.... and she'd watch LO for me if I ever wanted to go there. But it's a half hour away and working out gives me migraines so I haven't gone yet :(</p> <p>I do go to water zumba twice a week though. Being in the water is less harsh on my body. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232886 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:36:14 +0000 Running Elley 232886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a member of a gym until I got pregnant and I went really consistently. We have a treadmill at home though and I used the gym for spin classes! Once I couldn’t go to them anymore while being pregnant (doctor’s orders) I cancelled my membership to save money. Now I just walk on the treadmill at home and do weights. It’s not the same though. I really miss my spin classes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232884 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:32:21 +0000 chrispygal 232884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I belong to a gym and miss it terribly right now! I joined about 2 1/2 years ago and went consistently the entire time. For the first time ever in my life, I've stuck with it! I take classes and there is a great group of women I am friendly with that all go in the morning. I go before work, which was key for my consistency and while it was hard adjusting to at first, it has made a HUGE difference in my health and energy. I continued with the gym until late into my second trimester. I am eagerly awaiting the green light to go back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232879 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:28:15 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 232879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i do, but i haven't gone in about a year! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232878 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:28:03 +0000 matador84 232878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a membership, but haven't been able to exercise since 8 weeks, UGH! I am hating my body and all my muscle turned to fat. I can't WAIT to go back. I was working out pretty intensely 5-6 days a week until one day I was on the treadmill and couldn't even crank out an easy 3 miles...I should have known then I was pregnant! Anyway, I track all my workouts with the date/what I did/ weight to hold myself accountable and it helps to look back at see how far I've come. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232874 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:24:56 +0000 Rubies 232874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Gym? What's that? ;)<br /> I don't have the motivation to GO to a gym...I prefer treadmill or taking long walks with someone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/who-belongs-to-a-gym#post-232864 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:13:30 +0000 Meridian 232864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>After YEARS of being a complete sloth, I joined a gym last week!! I've gained a lot of weight these last few months (last year lost 15 lbs on Weight Watchers, and already gained most of it back). And now that we are TTC, I'm terrified that when I DO get preggers, I will blow up and be huge. I have a tendency to gain weight easily. </p> <p>So last week I joined LA Fitness, and so far have been there 4 times in the last 5 days! Luckily it's only 5 minutes away. I know this is just a temporary spurt where I'm motivated to go so often, but I'm really liking the facilities so far. My plan is to never do the same thing 2 days in a row, so one day do treadmill and upper body, maybe elliptical and lower body the next day, and then a zumba or kickboxing class after that, etc, etc. My only regret is that I didn't join earlier!</p> <p>One thing I am slightly concerned about is that I am currently in the TWW period, so I hope that me working out so intensely is ok... (any thoughts on that?)</p> <p>Who else belongs to a gym and how often do you go? How do you stay motivated? </p>