Katherine Heigl on working out: ‘now that I’m [pregnant] it’s ten times harder’

Katherine Heigl is almost five months pregnant with her third child. She and husband Josh Kelley have two adopted daughters Nancy and Adelaide. (I only mention that they were adopted to emphasize this is Katherine’s first pregnancy. There was some confusion over that for Corey’s coverage.) On Tuesday, she posted the picture above to Instagram. Those Heavenly Days is Katherine’s lifestyle blog. It has a nice layout and I got into a couple of her posts. She’s a big reader like me but I have yet to find a book we have read in common so I have no idea if our reading tastes are similar enough to go by her recommendations. But I digress. The post she refers to in the Instagram is this one and among her “favs” are a few online Yoga websites. According to Katherine, Yoga is just about the only thing she can find the motivation to do these days.

Pregnancy suits her! (Katherine Heigl’s) latest post began with her joking about being a know-it-all when it comes to pregnancy.

“As I write this I am 19 weeks pregnant and now believe myself to be an expert on all things pregnancy,” she wrote from her home in Utah. “Therefore, I thought it only right that I share my hard gained wisdom with all of you presently, and planning to be, gestating ladies out there. I’m joking, I basically know nothing, but there are a few things that I have discovered during the last 19 weeks that have vastly improved my pregnancy experience.”

Heigl, who has two daughters, Nancy, 7 and Adalaide, 4, with husband Josh Kelley, got candid about her diet and workouts admitting. “The first month of my pregnancy I was eating bowls of fettuccine Alfredo and huge slices of chocolate cake, all the while telling myself I was eating for two.”

“It’s hard enough for me to get motivated to work out when I’m not pregnant but now that I am it’s ten times harder,” the 37-year-old revealed. “I’m not up for weight training, lengthy cardio workouts, or any of those new and fashionable exercise classes. What I am up for is yoga.”

[From US Weekly]

This is probably not responsible of me to say but my workout regime was crap when I was pregnant. I think I attempted some kind of healthy lifestyle with my first but it didn’t last further than week ten. Although, that is slightly disingenuous in that I have had high cholesterol my whole life. I made necessary adjustments to my diet when I was 18. So I didn’t watch my diet while pregnant but I’d already been monitoring it for twenty years. But I paid for it, man. When I finally came to my senses and started running and dieting properly post babies, my skin’s elasticity was long gone.

The sites that Katherine recommends are yogaglo and Grokker. I am considering the yogaglo for my son and I since meditation has been recommended to help him with his ADHD. Among her other ‘favs’ is Baby Center, which I agree – that site’s great. She also lists a registry site, clothing, and some interesting remedies, including some information about caffeine and pregnancy I found fascinating. Katherine should be pretty busy next year with three kids, her animal advocacy and new show Doubt. So the rumors that she will reprise her role of Dr. Izzie Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy will stay rumors, as she won’t have time. Although, we all know that wasn’t going to happen anyway.

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  1. stinky says:

    :: yawn ::

  2. Jayna says:

    I’m just about the only person here that roots for her. She sounds happy.

  3. JenniferJustice says:

    Stretching, i.e. Yoga is not working out. If your heart rate isn’t increased and you’re not sweating, you’re not working out. Calories must be burned, otherwise just call it relaxation or stretching.

    • Kate says:

      I used to think the same thing, but after completing my yoga certificate, I have changed my mind. The breathing exercise of yoga are just as good for you as a moderate workout. The idea of working out strenuously is actually not healthy for our bodies.

    • detritus says:

      Yoga isn’t just stretching though.

      My daily flow has fast flows with long plank sequences and focuses on lunges and squat positions, and it definitely raises my heart rate. Most flows are more like a step class. A typical flow will include a sequence of push up, plank and shoulder work, often with deep lunges.

      You may be thinking of vinyasa, which poses are held for a long time. Long enough to start stretching fascia, and that particular type has been associated with increasing skin elasticity.

      Kundalini is breath related, and more about energy flows which can also be lower energy.

    • Coco says:

      Whatever movement/exercise/stretching you can do while pregnant is healthy for you and baby. I’ve had a relatively easy pregnancy so could keep up my circuit training/weight lifting four days a week until 37 weeks. It was really hard most days but I was luckily still able to do it. Now I’m almost 39 weeks and do some light stretching and walking and I’m good. If I’d had a rough pregnancy, getting anything done would have been an accomplishment because growing a tiny human is exhausting while trying to do all the daily normal things.

      • Coco says:

        Also, your heart rate is much more sensitive during pregnancy and despite maintaining my workout routine, I definitely needed to ease off of intensity. Some prenatal yoga classes had me sweating and catching my breath because my heart is working so much harder to pump 40-50% more blood flowing through my system and my heart is something like 10-15% larger than normal. So what might seem like light stretching prior to pregnancy is a safe workout for an expecting mama.

    • Veronica says:

      Some of that advanced yoga is pretty tough, yo. I’m not shaking a stick at it. Hard cardio is not recommended part a certain stage of pregnancy, anyway, and some women have hypertensive or diabetic collision that can interfere with more rigorous routines. Eating habits are what most women really need to watch.

  4. suchFun says:

    Am pleasantly surprised by her writing style. it actually is enticing and flows well! Maybe i will end up checking her blog out