Okay, so I’m the wrong gender to be pregnant but I know my wife has loved using Freeletics and is left wondering what to do if we are lucky enough to conceive. Is everything safe to do while pregnant? Does she need to dial it back? An option to tell the coach and have a pregnancy training journey would be awesome 
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Hi simsUK,
I’ve been wondering the same thing… hopefully, someone will respond.
A pregnancy Freeletics journey would be awesome! I’ve read about that in another Freeletics Facebook group and many women suggested that.
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This is a common topic that comes up regularly. First of all I think it’s really important to note that the pregnancy journey will be different for every woman.
Whilst exercising during pregnancy likely has many benefits for most woman, the type of High Intensity Training offered by Freeletics is probably not suitable for most pregnant woman and as such we do not recommend to continue training with the Freeletics app during this time.
It’s an area that stirs up a lot of conversation, what works for one will not work for everyone else, and it certainly doesn’t help that there is such conflicting advice on the subject.
Freeletics would always recommend speaking to your Doctor or healthcare professional so that one can get the best personal advice based on their own pregnancy journey.
The below short video has a few woman sharing their own very different experiences of training whilst pregnant.
Great question by the way 
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Hey @SimsUK and @Sarah one of our ambassadors trained while being pregnant as far as I know and she might be able to help out with that, in addition to Ben’s link. She is on Instagram so feel free to message her there https://www.instagram.com/bettys.fl/?hl=de
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I’m wondering if the previously pregnant Free Athleets can share what they did during their pregnancies so far. Maybe some other apps they discovered which suit the pregnancy needs? Or Youtube channels with trainings? It feels like there’s some programs out there who are trying to fill this gap, and they all say that the advice is for normal, healthy pregnancies after the doctor’s OK to exercise. But they’re glitchy, boring, and a thousand other things. So I don’t quite understand why freeletics can’t develop this kind of program as well, just with the level of excellency we’ve come to know and love.
Regarding Ben’s advice to ask our doctors, unfortunately I don’t feel they are really there for us, and certainly not in the level of detail which would be needed to make a training plan. They simply don’t have the time. Plus, in the country where I live (Austria) it takes up to 7-8 weeks to get your first prenatal doctor’s appointment. So what do you do in this time? Don’t train at all? I’ve been using Freeletics for 10 years, it’s in my blood, exercising 4-5 times a week is what I’m used to (Thanks, by the way, Freeletics) and 8 weeks without exercise would make me loose condition, which I think is not healthy either, and quite simply put depress me.
Not to mention, so many years in a woman’s life can be taken up with either trying to conceive, pregnancy or nursing, especially with multiple children, and it feels like there is so little guidance and we’re left to grope around in the dark.
So in lue of other ideas, I’m turning to you, the women who use freeletics and have gone through pregnancies already. Many thanks!
Hi @Andra (love that name, by the way!) There’s still an active ambassador with two kids and who trained pre and post birth. It’s amazing Sassel from Cologne . Perhaps you can get in contact to her?
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