At zero months pregnant, we’re unable to lift 215lb, yet that’s the amount Meghan Umphres Leatherman was able to lift despite being two days away from giving birth.
Mindbogglingly, she even broke some records doing so. Her story echoes that of pregnant bodybuilder Lee-Ann Ellison who caused controversy when pictures of her training went viral.
Gym devotee Meghan Leatherman was still pumping weights on the very day she went into labour.
The 33-year-old refused to pause her intense exercise schedule, continuing to walk her dog three miles every day, visiting the gym four times a week and hiking four miles in the mountains once a week.
Mrs Leatherman is a devotee of a particularly hardcore fitness regime, CrossFit, which holds a heavy emphasis on weight lifting and intensive interval training.
Even when she was 1cm dilated, that didn’t stop her grueling CrossFit fitness regime – which combines weightlifting, gymnastics and cardio activities.
Now she is settling in to life as a mum after giving birth to 6 lb, 11 oz daughter, Florence Germaine, on May 3.
But she expects to be back at the gym again in just three weeks.
