Active lifestyle and sports activities for most of modern women are norm. Whether it is worth refusing the habitual exercise stress at the time of expectation of the child?
Warnings of doctors that overloads are categorically contraindicated to future mother – both intellectual, and physical, often lead to the fact that being afraid for the health, pregnant women refuse to listen to requirements of the body which got used to exercise stresses and exclude sport from the life.
Certainly, it is necessary to refuse physical education of any severity if pregnancy proceeds with complications, there is the threat of the abortion and other serious problems.
But if with health and health everything is all right, then you shouldn't ignore completely sports activities – the inactive image yet did well to nobody, and to future mother and even less so.
Than the sport is useful to future mother?
- the regular dosed loadings allow to support muscles in the tone and facilitate return of the figure after the delivery to the initial sizes;
- the sport trains and strengthens nervous, cardiovascular and respiratory system of mother and kid;
- blood circulation improves that not only it is useful for health, but also positively affects appearance;
- the risk of developing of varicosity and stagnant processes in the small pelvis
Admissible sports
The safest and at the same time incredibly effective sport during pregnancy is the Scandinavian walking. This sport presents itself exercise stresses in the walking form with the sticks reminding ski.
The peculiar fitness in the fresh air has a number of indisputable advantages:
- during the occupations about 90% of the muscle of all body train;
- minimal risk of getting injured;
- work of the vascular and respiratory system improves;
- it is easy to dose loading;
- it is possible to be engaged on any duration of gestation.
It is important to remember that the Scandinavian walking isn't recommended to be practiced on city streets – very important to breathe only clean and fresh air. Ideal option – the park and the forest with good footpaths.
To support by quite good option muscles, skin and mood in the tone – oriental dances. Such type of the exercise stress remarkably trains the joints, muscles, ligaments taking the active participation in the course of the child's birth.
Fluent dance moves promote prevention of varicosity, train crotch muscles that will help to avoid further cuts and ruptures of this area.
Besides, oriental dances will teach the woman to relaxation of deep muscles that will deliver to reduce sensations of pain.
If in sight of future mother there is the good pool meeting sanitary standards, then one more great view of sport for pregnant women, there will be the swimming.
Swimming not only unweights the backbone and muscles of the back, but also promotes decrease in hypostases, tones up muscles, improves blood supply, well influences mentality of mother and kid.
It is noticed that after the delivery at the women doing swimming during pregnancy the lactation got better easier. In addition, regular swimming helps to get rid of extra kilos and to keep weight on the necessary mark.
Contraindications to sports activities
Despite all good points which exercise stresses render on the organism of the pregnant woman it is necessary to refrain even from the easiest loadings in the following cases:
- threat of the abortion;
- placental presentation;
- toxicoses at any stage of pregnancy;
- abundance of water;
- polycarpous pregnancy;
- diseases of the liver, kidneys, cardiovascular system;
- uterine bleedings.
In order that sports activities did well and brought only joy, it is important to listen attentively to requirements of the body and not to ignore even the slightest signals of the arising discomfort.
Well and, of course, surely consult with the doctor about the recommended doses of the exercise stress, avoid injury-causing sports and don't allow excessive overheating or overcooling of the body.