Postpartum return to sport
I’ve been out of the game for sometime now. Lifting caused a lot of pelvic pain durning pregnancy so my training was hit and miss at best. Even then I was doing mainly kettlebell stuff, trying to keep a degree of work capacity and strength for labor and delivery. And On July 19, I brought a beautiful 8lb 8oz baby boy into the world!
Now in the postpartum period it’s been difficult to carve out the time to lift consistently. I’ve started and stopped multiple time now. But, At 4 months postpartum baby’s bedtime is fairly consistent and I feel mentally and physically ready to resume training.
Pre-pregnancy pr’s
Squat-501 sleeves(540 in wraps)
Front squat-315x2
Bench-225
OHP- 165
Deadlift-505
Goals: I’m planning on lifting in the spring classic. I’ll be restarting my novice linear progression and can hopefully run that til squat and dead are well into the 300’s, bench 200’s, and OHP low-mid 100’s.
No weight loss goals as of now. I’m about 10lbs up from pre pregnancy but have lost a significant amount of muscle mass. I’m still exclusively breastfeeding and as long as that is the case a recomp and feeding my baby are of higher priority then number on the scale. So the focus will be eating plenty of protein, nutritionally dense food, and high water consumption.
