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wang.lisay on March 19, 2020 at 1:36 am · in reply to: Training/Exercise During Pregnancy #39683

The german alpine club is recommending at this point against bouldering and climbing due to the coronavirus, logic being if something happens and you need a hospital bed, then it was an avoidable situation. while limiting, i can understand… i went bouldering last weekend at 18 weeks and just didn’t top out anything high. i am 5’1″ and there is a reasonable chance that i fit into the kids harness that my stepson grew out of.. but i’m certain that at least two out of three of my climbing harnesses still fit. the only one i’ve grown out of is my smallest one. i feel like i’m ‘popping’ and ‘showing’ less than a lot of women at my stage, and i wonder if having done years of overhanging climbing is somehow related to core muscles that make it harder for the uterus to pop? what i have really noticed in the last week is that my pelvic region is very sore after running, and i think thats related to the destabilization of the area from the ligaments softening. my midwife (in germany every woman gets a midwife as well as an obgyn) suggested a few exercises but i haven’t really figured this out yet…. in general, my midwife told me that my body will let me know if i should stop because it won’t feel good (re bouldering etc etc). and i’m just going to keep doing whatever feels good.. i have noticed pull-ups don’t feel good. i feel like i’m straining something in the middle of my chest below my sternum. bouldering with dynamic moves that cut both feet felt fine… so yeah..

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wang.lisay on March 12, 2020 at 6:56 am · in reply to: Training/Exercise During Pregnancy #39463

also, relevant point, i live not far off from sea level (500 m elevation) so i do notice the altitude when i am in the alps. if i were living at 1500m or 2000m i think i would have made very different calls regarding how hard to push it and how high to summit when moving above 2500 m.

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wang.lisay on March 11, 2020 at 9:16 am · in reply to: Training/Exercise During Pregnancy #39444

Hi, i thought i could offer my personal experience here. I’m at 17 weeks now, and i was skitouring at 14 weeks, although i did notice i had gotten much slower and i couldn’t carry all of my gear anymore because i couldn’t cinch my hip straps, so my husband carried my crampons and ice ax. I noticed some “round ligament pain” after walking on flat terrain for a long period of time. Downhill still felt good.

I personally did summits around 3000 meters with about 1000m of altitude gain and felt good about it, but i didn’t push higher because i had a guilty conscience since the medical guidelines are no sports above 2500. i stretched it by about 500 m. Placenta hemoglobin has a higher affinity for oxygen than maternal but i don’t know enough about the biology to understand the actual risks. I couldn’t find any medical studies that showed evidence against female alpine athletes but my doctor friends told me that starting at 2000m a person is technically hypoxic and there is less than maximum/normal oxygen saturation in the blood.

At this point, the reason we aren’t going skitouring on the weekends is because I live in Germany and the coronavirus has made travel into Austria and Switzerland questionable starting from 2 weeks ago. If we could, we would. unfortunately skitouring season is most likely over for us, but multi-pitch climbing is starting soon 😉