I had the first appointment from my health visitor the other day and she was surprised how healthy I was, how eassily I was still moving around and how I could still sit cross legged on the floor.

After going through all the forms she had to about our lives she asked how much Kung Fu I had been doing during my pregnancy and how often. She was surprised at the small amount I had been doing compared to how much I did before. Yet still it had, had such an effect on my mobility.

Before I got pregnant I was doing a little solo training every day, plus 2 classes per week and every now and then I would train some bits with Paul at home. My solo training would be my forms once slow and then once faster each, this would take around 10 minutes and then I would do an exercise routine that I had put together. This was a sir-kit of sit ups on the fit ball (straight and to the side) 2mins, to those of you who train at The Kung Fu Schools the route done in the class twice, then squats and on the way up I would kick forward ( this works best if someone is holding a pad for you to kick ). I will be using this routine after I have baby Leo in 4 weeks time!!!!!! So I will video it and pop it up on here so you can see exactly what I do. But bare with me as will be out of practice now. I will do one as soon as I can after the birth then one each month so you can see the effect it has and the speed it works.

While I have been pregnant I have really cut down, not meaning to cut down as much as I have I must admit, it happens to everyone I just got out the habit. I stopped the classes for the first 3 months as of course the pregnancy danger zone! After that I did one class a week all I had to do was make sure my training partner was aware I was pregnant. The only thing I have continued through my pregnancy is doing my solo training of my forms everyday. I did some training with Paul on our honeymoon, and he has shown and gone through me the Wing Chun Kuen form a couple of times (this I can’t wait to do fully). Since he came back from Hong Kong he has been concentrating on the pole and that is a real no no at the moment, but can’t wait to have a go!!!

So really I haven’t done much while being pregnant but it was noticeable to the health visitor that Kung Fu has helped make my pregnancy more healthy. She also thinks that it will make the birth easier too I do hope so we will have to see.

Look out for the videos of me getting back into shape after the birth, I will do a monthly video so you can really see the difference Kung Fu has to my body.