In about two months, Therese Johaug and fiance Nils Jakob Hoff will become parents for the first time. In a larger interview with Swedish Expressen she says that her physical form has never been worse, but that she still exercises a lot. It arouses attention among some.
– There are many prejudices about exercising while you are pregnant, but when you are pregnant you are not sick. You must take the considerations you must take and follow all guidelines. But you also have to realize that I am in a different situation than others. I have trained for so many years and have a completely different starting point to many others, she says.
Johaug meets the newspaper in Spanish Fuerteventura, where she recently organized a training trip.
– It’s a transition to go from your best ever to the worst shape you’ve ever been in. And in just one year get a more relaxed attitude to training. It has been tough mentally. You can feel how the body reacts completely differently to training than what I am used to. I feel that the body is not there now and then I get frustrated. I’m used to a top-trained body.
It was early January that the former cross-country runner announced that she was expecting her first child. About ten months after she said goodbye to the top sport in Holmenkollen.
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– Don’t know what awaits
Johaug says that she gets grumpy if she doesn’t get to exercise and says that before the pregnancy, her fiance used to ask her to do a workout if she was in a bad mood.
– It is perhaps good for him that I was pregnant in the first period (after I quit) because I have been very tired and tired because of it. He doesn’t know what awaits yet, she grins to Expressen.
The duo has been together for a number of years and it was on the eve of 2021 that the 24-year-old could announce that the two were engaged.
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Call as a supporter
Johaug is expecting a girl within a short time. Her former competitor Charlotte Kalla is also expecting a child towards the summer. The two exchange many messages between themselves.
– It’s great fun that Charlotte is going to have children. We write to each other a lot. She is expecting hers a little later than I am, but it is good that you can share experiences on the road and talk about how you experience things. There aren’t that many top athletes in the same situation as me that I can talk to.
Johaug says that the former rivals have found a lot of joy in each other.
– We share experiences about what we can do in terms of training and what we cannot do in the future. We speak the same language when it comes to that.
