An Overview To Exercise During Pregnancy

Exercise During Pregnancy

Many expectant mothers realize that healthy nutrition and
balanced active lifestyles enable them to have healthier
pregnancies and newborns, and to get through the birthing
process and labor more readily and easily.

The level of your continued efforts will depend a lot on
your pre-pregnancy fitness levels.

Exercise stimulates all the body’s systems and holistically
speaking doing the right types of exercises can actually
assist in the childbirth process, with all its challenges
and obstacles.

Respiratory, muscular, circulatory, nervous system, lifting
mood, positive hormones, balanced system can all benefit
the reproductive processes, outcome.

Not over-exerting yourself is key and depending on the
types of sports, workouts that you prefer or are required,
trimester, timing, fitness levels, condition and risk
factors, your medical practitioner and fitness instructor
will be able to advise and customize an exercise during
pregnancy type workout, full-body, aerobic, stretching,
toning, sculpting, breathing, relaxing will be alternated
for optimal benefit.

Exercise also assists with mood and generally more positive
feelings of being energized, more positive and not being
victim to the physical signs and discomforts that threaten
to overwhelm and control during the passage of nine months,

It helps with painful joints, swollen ankles, keeps blood
pressure in check. So whether in the gym, using equipment,
or at home, taking a pre-natal yoga class, swimming,
walking daily or at least 3-4 times a week, will leave you
feeling more like yourself and less like a shapeless,
oversized blimp.

As to which types of exercises is most suited, safe and
gives the maximum benefit, will depend pretty much on the
individual, as no two women or pregnancies for that matter
are or will be the same.

Ensure that you discuss your medical condition and risks
with your medical care-giver or gynecology team before
starting a new regimen or workout, or the level of strain,
intensity and duration you and your pregnant body, fetus
will be able to handle comfortable, without putting anyone
or anything at increased risk.

There is a myth and misconception that pregnancy and
exercise do not mix, for it increases the risk for a
miscarriage, there is no scientific evidence to support
this hypothesis.

Paul Cass