Being careful to avoid laying flat on your back and working the abdominal muscles are just two of the workouts a pregnant woman should avoid. Yes there are. The one that most people are aware of is to not exercise on the back during after the first trimester.
Your heavy uterus can put pressure on the vena cava which is circulating blood through your body.
This pressure can cause a mom to feel dizzy or light headed. In addition, and some that I think are probably just as important to make publicly aware, is that all of the ligaments and connective tissue in your body is looser than normal during pregnancy because there is a hormone that gets released that's helping your body prepare for birth. You want to have all that connective tissue looser during birth because your body needs to allow the baby to come through the birth canal. This loosening is your body's way of preparing for the birth but, at the same time, that means that all of the connective tissue in your body is little bit looser than normal and makes you are more prone to injuries in everything you do.
You want to be extra careful about not doing activities that compromise balance at all or that have a lot of rotation in the joints because you are more prone to injury. So for example tennis is a sport that you are shifting your weight back and forth doing quick movements in different directions. That would be something that pregnant women would want to be very careful doing and probably stay away from. There is much more likelihood that a knee or ankle or something is going to get twisted. Likewise if you are taking a standard aerobics class that has a lot of pivot turns and lot of quick directional changes we want to be careful.
As far as being concerned about the health of the baby, the exercises that should be avoided are going to be anything that could cause trauma to the center of your body. So you would not want to do things like ski because there is a higher likelihood that there could be falls that could impact the center of your body. You also don't want to workout at intensities that are extremely high. Moderate to low intensity exercise is best simply because we don't want to get your body so warm that your core body temperature goes up a lot. Remember, your baby is in your core body and it doesn't sweat like people sweat so it can't cool itself down the same way that we are cooling ourself down. So we just want to avoid having the core body temperature increase a lot. So we just have to monitor ourselves from our exercising and make sure that we are not breathing too hard and that we are not sweating really hard and we are wearing clothing that doesn't make us too hot just to make sure we don't overheat.
This pressure can cause a mom to feel dizzy or light headed. In addition, and some that I think are probably just as important to make publicly aware, is that all of the ligaments and connective tissue in your body is looser than normal during pregnancy because there is a hormone that gets released that's helping your body prepare for birth. You want to have all that connective tissue looser during birth because your body needs to allow the baby to come through the birth canal. This loosening is your body's way of preparing for the birth but, at the same time, that means that all of the connective tissue in your body is little bit looser than normal and makes you are more prone to injuries in everything you do.
You want to be extra careful about not doing activities that compromise balance at all or that have a lot of rotation in the joints because you are more prone to injury. So for example tennis is a sport that you are shifting your weight back and forth doing quick movements in different directions. That would be something that pregnant women would want to be very careful doing and probably stay away from. There is much more likelihood that a knee or ankle or something is going to get twisted. Likewise if you are taking a standard aerobics class that has a lot of pivot turns and lot of quick directional changes we want to be careful.
As far as being concerned about the health of the baby, the exercises that should be avoided are going to be anything that could cause trauma to the center of your body. So you would not want to do things like ski because there is a higher likelihood that there could be falls that could impact the center of your body. You also don't want to workout at intensities that are extremely high. Moderate to low intensity exercise is best simply because we don't want to get your body so warm that your core body temperature goes up a lot. Remember, your baby is in your core body and it doesn't sweat like people sweat so it can't cool itself down the same way that we are cooling ourself down. So we just want to avoid having the core body temperature increase a lot. So we just have to monitor ourselves from our exercising and make sure that we are not breathing too hard and that we are not sweating really hard and we are wearing clothing that doesn't make us too hot just to make sure we don't overheat.
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