I’m feeling Twenty-Two (weeks pregnant, that is)

I woke up this morning singing the Taylor Swift song “22” because…I MADE IT 22 WEEKS!!!
I’ve been able to feel baby girl dancing around in my belly and it’s the best! I’ve heard that as she gets stronger, I might not enjoy it as much, but right now I’m just loving that pregnant feeling.
Seth convinced me to start waking up a little bit earlier to “bro out” with him at the gym. Yesterday I did some back jerks, back squats and overhead squats (with a pause at the bottom) and hubby commented on how I’ve managed to maintain a lot of my flexibility still. I let him know it’s more likely just the relaxin. He said we might need to inject some of that into some of our less mobile clients. When deciding how heavy to go on my squats, I take about 70% of my old max and then take the recommended percentage off of that. I make sure to stop at a weight before I feel like I’m straining to put the weight up.
Today we did some Olympic lifting complexes. Olympic lifting is my favorite because I always feel so hardcore tossing the barbell around, but I’ve definitely had to cut back on the weights as my belly is getting bigger and I can’t keep the bar as close to midline anymore. After lifting, we did a metcon (The metabolic conditioning portion of the workout). I changed a lot of the movements from what Seth was doing but managed to get pretty sweaty and stinky in my 10 minute metcon still.
I felt much better about my nutrition this week and I feel a lot stronger and better than I have for awhile as well. I’m really enjoying this part of pregnancy and am even able to laugh instead of cry when I try something on and it doesn’t quite fit right anymore.
This post is part of a link up with Katie Did What for Healthy Habits today! Click over to her page to check out the other linkers!