fitness for pregnant women

                           

fitness for pregnant women

You might not feel motivated to move your body while you’re pregnant.
pregnancy is the absolute right time to turn your focus to fitness and get into a regular exercise routine.

Here are a few reasons why:

                                    

1. Fewer aches and pains:

Regular exercise throughout pregnancy helps reduce common body aches. Since pregnancy really does a number on your body (like overstretching, weakness and tension), stretching the muscles that tend to tighten and strengthening the muscles that get weak helps prevent and alleviate many of the common discomforts during and after pregnancy.

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2. Easier childbirth:

Yep, you read that correctly! Exercise can help prepare your body for childbirth. Dr. James F. Clapp published a book, Exercising Through Your Pregnancy, where he writes that moms who exercise regularly throughout pregnancy have been proven to have shorter labor, faster postpartum recoveries and require fewer medical interventions during childbirth.

                                     

3. Less baby weight you’ll have to lose:

It’s not surprising that women who exercise regularly through pregnancy gain less weight than women who do not. If there’s any motivation to get moving while you’re pregnant, it’s so you’ll have less “work” to do after baby arrives (and more time to spend cuddling that cute babe than sweating it out at the gym!). Getting moving helps keep pregnancy weight gain in check so that you have less baby weight to contend with post baby.

                                

4. A quicker postpartum recovery:

Getting and staying fit while you are pregnant helps you to recover more quickly after giving birth. Maintaining strength and muscle tone in the muscles that become overstretched during pregnancy helps those muscles to achieve an effective contraction afterward and go back to their original shape more quickly.