MULTIPLE gold medal-winning cyclist Laura Kenny is excited about motherhood but says it won't stop her from defending her titles at the next Olympics

After becoming the most successful female track cyclist in Olympic history, Laura Kenny is seeking a new challenge.

The four-time Olympic champion is aiming for more cycling golds at the Tokyo 2020 Games after she has her first baby with fellow Olympian husband Jason Kenny, this summer.

Despite saying after the last Olympics that she didn't want to juggle children with her cycling career, the golden girl is now looking forward to doing just that.

The excited mum-to-be says her pregnancy "wasn't a plan as such", but explains: "Both me and Jason had decided we wanted children, and I'd also decided that I wanted to go to at least one more Olympics if I could, so we thought this would be the year to do it if we were going to do it."

The former Laura Trott, 24, who married six-time Olympic gold medal cyclist Jason Kenny last September, is now 22 weeks pregnant. The Kennys know the sex of their baby, but are keeping it quiet.

But is Laura hoping her son or daughter will eventually follow in its parents' golden Olympic footsteps?

She's already hinted at such aspirations, tweeting during the last Olympics: 'I love him to bits @JasonKenny107! Our kids have to get some of these genes right?'

For now, she says: "Me and Jason do lead quite active lifestyles, and I know how much we've enjoyed cycling. I'd love it if our kids enjoyed it as well."

The seven-time World Champion cyclist has had no morning sickness, and cheerfully reveals she's simply "carrying on life as normal", remaining very active by cycling up to two hours a day on the bike in her garage, going to the gym and swimming.

"We've tailored everything back a lot, so I'm not doing anything 100% and I'm not going at anything full gas," she explains.

She stops when she wants to at the gym, and admits: "If I feel like I've had enough, then I can it. It's never really about finishing a session, it's just about keeping active.

"I didn't want to put my body in complete shock. Obviously, I've never grown a child before, and I didn't want to stop what I'd always known."

Kenny says she wants to keep active for as long as possible before her baby arrives, but she has no idea, of course, when she'll get back into training after the birth.

"I want to start again afterwards - I want to go to the 2020 Olympics, and I don't want to be so far away from where I was," she stresses.

"I don't want to put a date on it - people always say, 'When are you coming back?'. But I haven't even had my baby yet!

"I'm not going to know how fit I can be until I start training again, but the Olympics is what I'd like to be training for."

In the meantime, Kenny is using some of her rare inactive time to encourage other families to get active together.

She's promoting the Disney Let's Go campaign, which aims to encourage parents to share their stories on how they inspire their family to be active, and offers video tips about family activities.

"For me, being active as a family is massively important - that's how I got into cycling in the first place," says Kenny.

"I always found it so much more fun going out with my dad, mum and sister than just going out and riding my bike on my own. It's an easier way to live a healthier life."

Disney research has found that, while more than half of parents and children believe being active together would make them want to be healthier, 57% of parents say lack of time is the main activity barrier.

But Kenny insists being active doesn't need to take lots of time.

"It doesn't have to be going out for massive long bike rides - it can be playing in the garden or taking the dog for a walk.

"Doing it together makes it a lot more enjoyable."

The research also found a third of parents worry they aren't good role models for their kids, with over half of children saying they're healthier than their parents.

That clearly won't be the case in the Kenny household, although the mum-to-be insists she won't be pushing her child into activity.

"I think it's hugely important not to push children to do exercise, but to lead them in that direction. I'm certainly not going to be a pushy parent," she declares.

Instead, this modest queen of the cycling track says she's simply looking forward to doing all the active things she used to do when she was young with her own child, like playing tennis in the garden with her mum and dad, and, of course, cycling.

"We could go on family bike rides like me and my parents used to do. I would honestly love that."

As well as maintaining an exercise routine, Kenny has been enjoying the more mundane aspects of future parenthood, like painting the nursery with her husband.

"We chose to paint the nursery ourselves and it's nice, isn't it?" she says. "It feels like a little project that me and Jason can do together."

The young couple have also been marvelling at the amount of 'stuff' their parents are buying for the new arrival.

"It's the first grandchild for both sets of grandparents, so they've just gone mad with it," laughs Kenny.

"My mum's the world's biggest hoarder, and it's finally paid off because she kept everything from when me and my sister were little, so we're just going to use all that stuff as well, which is nice.

"It's got so much stuff already, it's ridiculous. It's the most loved baby ever!"

:: For more information about Let's Go, visit www.disneyhealthyliving.co.uk from April 10