What Exercise During Pregnancy Can Do For You

Expecting mothers can do exercise during pregnancy. Beside paying attention on your exercise training posture, once must know when to start and what type of exercise is suitable. As there are many benefits of exercise during pregnancy one should do the exercise  with precaution especially when you’re pregnant. Exercise can increase the contraction of pregnant women abdominal strength, flexibility and enhanced waist so as to prepare your body not just to have an easy delivery that is reduce the labor time but also get you recovery faster during post-natal period. It benefits both mother and for your unborn baby.

Types of Exercise During Pregnancy

During the early stage of pregnancy, around one to three months, the embryo has just taken root in the womb, during this period of time, if you want to exercise, extra care is needed to prevent abortion. If you particular have a history of habitual abortion. You should exercise with caution or simple don’t. At this stage exercise should be light.

During the four to seven month of pregnancy period, pregnant women can do some appropriate strength training, as strengthening muscles and bones are also very beneficial to you. Others exercise such as swimming, walking or even yoga are suitable for pregnant woman. Exercise using light dumbbell are acceptable as long as you don’t over exert your limit. Keeping in mind you are pregnant now. During exercise once must maintain normal breathing and your heart beat should not be more than 130 per minute.

Late in your pregnancy, that is during the eight months of pregnant. There should not be any intense exercise like you’re not allow to do jumping, spins around or any other extensive exercise to avoid premature. You may do light exercise like go for a casual stroll with your husband. Limit your exercise each time to appropriate not more than half an hour.

Here are some main point for you to remember.

1. After you have reach 20 weeks of pregnancy forbid on any intense exercise.

2. Your heart beats should not be too fast which will cause danger to your fetus. Pay attention on the clothing to wear during exercise. Advice to wear loose clothing.

3. Drink plenty of water is needed, once your have the following symptoms like pain, bleeding, dizziness, breathing difficulties, an irregular heartbeat, difficulty walking . Consult your doctor for timely medical treatment.

4. If you’re a high-risk pregnancy, in particular also suffering from high blood pressure, nephritis, anemia and other diseases. Check yourself if you are feeding alright before proceeding with your exercise. Choose the exercise that are simple and are according  to your mean.

Always be safe when doing exercise during pregnancy. If you have any doubt on please do consult a physician first. Remember not to do any heavy weight type of exercise and it was recommended by most specialists that pregnant woman should do exercise during pregnancy at least 3 to 4 times a week, unless you have a medical condition that prevents it. Exercising during pregnancy is one of the best things you can do for yourself and your baby.

Benefits of Exercise During Pregnancy

Always check with your personal doctor to make sure that it’s safe for you to exercise during pregnancy. Although some questions have been asked about the effects of exercise on pregnant women, there is no significant proof that a gentle exercise has any bad effects on pregnancy. Most of the studies although did not shown any benefits for the baby, but then exercise can help you feel better and maintain your weight. Exercise during pregnancy can also help ease or relieve pain or discomfort during pregnancy. It can build up more energy and prepares your pregnant body for labor by increasing your stamina and muscle strength. If you have no serious medical problems and you have an uncomplicated pregnancy, it’s probably safe for you to do some exercising.

Watch Dr. Jay Goldberg on exercise during pregnancy

Transcript

What are recommended exercises during pregnancy?

During pregnancy, I don’t recommend that you change much. You want to keep your heart rate down, below about 15 beats per minute, and you can do so by getting one of those heart rate monitors. Sometimes a safe way to know that you’re exercising too much is if it’s hard for you to converse while you’re exercising. If you’re on the treadmill and you’re huffing and puffing, and someone asks you what time it is and you can’t spit that out, you’re probably pushing it a little too much. I usually say walking, hiking, jogging, using a treadmill or StairMaster, doing pilates or yoga, spinning, swimming; they’re all fine. You can do most anything when you’re pregnant; even run a marathon. Trying to keep your heart rate down is probably the most important thing. Now, that goes for a normal pregnancy. If you have complications at all, such as bleeding or threatening a miscarriage, if you’re later in the pregnancy and your cervix is shortened, or your doctor’s recommended bed rest, then there are going to be other recommendations. Obviously, you’ll cross those bridges when you get there.

What exercise precautions should I take if I’m pregnant?

Typically it’s probably not a good idea when pregnant to do exercises that involve contact. So, examples might be kickboxing or maybe basketball where you may take an incidental elbow to the gut. This is not a recommended exercise or activity that you’d participate in. But most other exercises are really not restricted.
At what point in my pregnancy should I stop exercising?

I don’t recommend you stop exercising in pregnancy unless told so by your doctor. If you’re having an uncomplicated pregnancy, you can go on long walks - treadmill or such, the day after your due date. My wife, as an example, is a big spinner, she would spin throughout her pregnancies to the point where her knees would hit her belly when she was on the spinning bike. She went for a spinning class about 3 days after my older son’s due date.

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