Being fit during your pregnancy period is an essential part of your journey. You can educate your family by impressing upon them the need and benefits of exercise during pregnancy which are enumerated as follows:
• Exercise for energy: Pregnancy can deplete energy. Exercises such as walking strengthen and tone the muscles and rejuvenate women to carry on with their day-to-day tasks with lesser strain. Additionally, exercise improves overall blood circulation and keeps energy levels high.
• Exercise for easier labor: Childbirth is a difficult process and exercise during pregnancy will help increase flexibility, endurance, and muscle control which are necessary for labor and delivery, thereby helpful in an easier labor.
• Exercise to reduce pregnancy-associated discomfort: Pregnancy is accompanied by minor aches and pains. Exercises such as muscle stretches, walking, swimming, etc., strengthen various parts of the body like the back and abdominal muscles.
• Exercise to prepare you and your body for birth: Strong muscles and a fit heart can greatly ease labor and delivery. Gaining control over your breathing can help you manage pain. And in the event of a lengthy labor, increased endurance can be a real help.
• Strengthening muscle groups: Muscle groups that are most important to exercise during pregnancy. The three muscle groups that a pregnant woman should target are
A) Abdominal muscles: Strengthening of these muscles will make it easier to support the increasing weight of the baby.
B) Pelvic muscles: Strengthening of these muscles will permit the Vagina to widen more easily during childbirth and also prevent urinary problems (leaking urine when you cough or sneeze) after delivery.
C) Back muscles: Strengthening of back muscles will improve the posture and minimize the strain of pregnancy on the lower back and help prevent discomfort caused by poor posture.
• Exercise to reduce stress: Pregnancy is a mixture of elation and anxiety and pregnant women often find themselves swinging from one to the other, which can be quite stressful. Physical exercises increase mood-elevating chemicals in the brain and thereby reduce pregnancy-related blues.
• Exercise to look better: Exercise increases the blood flow to your skin, giving you a healthy glow
• Exercise for energy: Pregnancy can deplete energy. Exercises such as walking strengthen and tone the muscles and rejuvenate women to carry on with their day-to-day tasks with lesser strain. Additionally, exercise improves overall blood circulation and keeps energy levels high.
• Exercise for easier labor: Childbirth is a difficult process and exercise during pregnancy will help increase flexibility, endurance, and muscle control which are necessary for labor and delivery, thereby helpful in an easier labor.
• Exercise to reduce pregnancy-associated discomfort: Pregnancy is accompanied by minor aches and pains. Exercises such as muscle stretches, walking, swimming, etc., strengthen various parts of the body like the back and abdominal muscles.
• Exercise to prepare you and your body for birth: Strong muscles and a fit heart can greatly ease labor and delivery. Gaining control over your breathing can help you manage pain. And in the event of a lengthy labor, increased endurance can be a real help.
• Strengthening muscle groups: Muscle groups that are most important to exercise during pregnancy. The three muscle groups that a pregnant woman should target are
A) Abdominal muscles: Strengthening of these muscles will make it easier to support the increasing weight of the baby.
B) Pelvic muscles: Strengthening of these muscles will permit the Vagina to widen more easily during childbirth and also prevent urinary problems (leaking urine when you cough or sneeze) after delivery.
C) Back muscles: Strengthening of back muscles will improve the posture and minimize the strain of pregnancy on the lower back and help prevent discomfort caused by poor posture.
• Exercise to reduce stress: Pregnancy is a mixture of elation and anxiety and pregnant women often find themselves swinging from one to the other, which can be quite stressful. Physical exercises increase mood-elevating chemicals in the brain and thereby reduce pregnancy-related blues.
• Exercise to look better: Exercise increases the blood flow to your skin, giving you a healthy glow
