Pregnancy Exercises : How to Exercise Safely During Pregnancy

Oh, I’m pregnant! How am I going to stay in shape? Hi everybody I’m Carol Ann with Studio Group Acts, and I’m going to show you how to exercise safely during exercise. The number 1 thing that you need to do is to consult with your physician, make sure that you do not have a high risk pregnancy. Number two, the myth is exercise increases your risk for miscarriage, that is not true, you can definitely exercise safely, and actually encouraged to keep yourself healthy and fit for delivery. But you want to make sure that you will start off slowly and you never want to exert yourself.

Now if you are already on an exercise program and you become pregnant, continue to follow that same exercise program until you get signals from your body that just not comfortable for you, your body can handle it. You are in shape. Ok again, listen to your body, you are the best monitor of what’s going on. Now you want to make sure that you wear loose clothing while you’re exercising, make sure that you’ve got plenty of room to move, and nothing too tight where it blocks off your circulation.

Make sure that you wear a good supportive bra, because they’re growing in all different kinds of areas and you want to make sure you’re supported. Shoes are very important too, you want to make sure that you’ve got great ankle support with your shoes. During exercise, make sure that you have plenty of breaks, drink lots of water, you never want to exercise in the hot weather so want to make sure that you’ve got plenty of oxygen in your body as it able to cool itself properly. And, make sure that you’re not exercising under unstable surfaces, for example if you’re a mountain biker, and now you’re going over a terrain that’s rocky.

You’ve got a lot of relaxing hormone running through your body now, and your joints are a little bit loose than normal, so you want to make sure your surfaces are stable during pregnancy. Now, during your second and your third trimester, you want to try to avoid being on your back, in a lying down position, you want to try to avoid those positions for any extended period of time. So, make sure that if you’re doing any abdominal exercises on your back, that you take a break, and then come back again. And then also, lastly, during your pregnancy, make sure you take a lot of time for relaxation, and some stretching, so take some time for yourself, meditate, breathe, get lots of oxygen in, and enjoy this time. Because that baby’s coming, and then you’re off and running. So enjoy your pregnancy, make sure you make it a healthy fit one. I’m Carol Ann with Studio Group Act, and make sure you’re safe while you’re exercising during pregnancy.