Ask the Fitness Expert
Now is your opportunity to ask our fitness expert about your exercise routine and nutrition concerns, what you can do to get prepared for labor, all the "what if...," "what should I..." type questions or whatever is on your mind about creating a healthier lifestyle for yourself and for your family. You'll get real and honest answers.
- Can I Get Rid of This ''Mother's Apron''?
- Can I Keep Working Out?
- Can I Run Track While Pregnant?
- Can I Ski While Pregnant?
- Can I Snowmobile During Pregnancy?
- Can I Still Bounce on the Trampoline?
- Can I Take My Black Sash Test While Pregnant?
- Can I Take Too Much Calcium?
- Continue Power Yoga and Pilates While Pregnant with Twins?
- Continuing a Vigorous Workout Through Pregnancy
- Could Exercise be Affecting My Period?
- Could Power Yoga Negatively Affect Conception and Pregnancy?
- Could the Pain Be a Pulled Muscle?
- Crunches and Sit-ups the First Trimester?
- Disastasis
- Does a Previous C-section Affect Exercise?
- Does Fitness During Pregnancy Help Later?
- Does Jogging Affect Implantation?
- Does Jogging Affect Implantion?
- Does Lifting Heavy Boxes While TTC Harm?
Alexandra Allred
Alexandra Allred is a former member of the US Women's Bobsled team, is an accomplished martial artist, and continues to teach kickboxing while juggling her career as a full-time writer and mother of three. She has interviewed hundreds of athletes, models, actresses, trainers, doctors, and health/fitness experts as she sought to find answers to her own questions about working out while pregnant, arranging breast-feeding around a training schedule, diet when pregnant and breastfeeding, and encouraging her whole family.
Alex is the author of ten books, including Atta Girl! A Celebration of Women in Sports and Entering the Mother Zone: Balancing Self, Health & Family. We're excited to have her on board!
