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Khloe Kardashian is back in the limelight for her intense and medically guided pregnancy workout regimen. She has been expecting a baby with her boyfriend Tristan Thompson since last September. During her third trimester, she was heavily criticized on social media for her pregnancy workouts, since it was suspected they were causing acute distress to her body and her child. Khloe has maintained her stance that her workout regimen is medically recommended, not beasty at all, and helps her stay fit!

Her pregnancy workout schedule consists of the following 8 steps:

• Warm up: 30 minutes well-spent on the stair climber.
• Circuit training: This, in simple terms, means doing a dumbbell press over the head, and, while bringing your arms to the resting position, dropping into a squat. A set of circuit training is performed for 30 seconds, and is repeated 4 times.
• The Kardashian ‘push up shoulder tap’: A conventional push up is followed by hand tapping your opposite shoulder before you lower your body to the resting position. Khloe believes this is a great way to work out your core, chest and arms.
• Lateral duck walk: Hang on to a TRX rope with a resistance band above your knees. Move 3 steps to the left and then do a pull up. Move 3 steps to the right and then repeat the pull up. Khloe does 3 such sets of 30 second each.
• Battle ropes: The battle ropes are heavy and are known for resistance training. This causes the conditioning of arms, shoulders and core muscles
• Chest presses: Keeping the feet shoulder-width apart for more stability, rest your back on a resistance ball and do chest press with one dumbbell in each hand. Khloe repeats this for 3 sets of 30 seconds each.
• Resistance squat: Hold a full squat for over a minute, at the same time ensuring that the resistance band above your knees is engaging your glutes.
• Bird-dog plank: Khloe completes her workout with a few sets of ‘Bird-dog planks’. Using 2 waff-minis or anything that creates instability, place your knee on one and the opposite hand on the other. Continue to hold this for 30 seconds and then repeat with the reverse combination. In her words, “It is harder than what it looks or sounds like!’

This followed by few stretches is Khloe’s way of staying fit and active while she awaits the new bundle of joy in her life! Looks like it really might not be as easy as ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians!’