Olympic Weightlifting During Pregnancy

The Olympic lifts are highly technical movements that athletes spend years learning, improving, and hoping to master. The snatch and clean both require efficiency in movement, which includes keeping the barbell path close to your body.

With a growing bump, we have to consider what your body currently is versus what your body was and will be. Even if you are keeping the barbell close to that baby bump, where is that barbell in comparison to your pre/postnatal body? Compensating for the bump causes a barbell to go out and around, with the distance between the bar and your midline increasing each month.