Tips for Yoga
This age-old practice keeps you limber, tones your muscles, and improves your balance and circulation, with little, if any, impact on your joints. It focuses on teaching you to relate to your busy, hectic and stressful lifestyle. It is about changing your attitude towards life.
Yoga is also beneficial because it helps you learn [...]
Tips for fitness
Aerobic exercise strengthens your heart and lungs and helps maintain muscle tone. As long as you choose exercises that are low-impact and you keep one foot on the ground at all times to minimize stress on your joints, you should be able to continue your routine throughout most of your pregnancy.
Although exercise DVDs [...]
Tips for swimming
Swimming is a great type of exercise because it uses both of your large muscle groups (arms and legs). Though low-impact, it provides good cardiovascular benefits and allows pregnant women to feel weightless despite the extra kilos you’re carrying. It is also very safe to do with low chances of getting injured.
Swimming also [...]
Tips for walking
Walking is a safe activity to continue throughout all nine months of pregnancy and one of the easiest ways to start exercising. Walking is one of the best cardiovascular exercises for pregnant women because it’s easy to do, keeps you in shape, makes you feel good. All of that is done without putting [...]
Walking is the perfect exercise if you didn’t work out before your pregnancy.
Swimming is a great form of exercise because you use most muscles in your body and puts little strain on your joints.
Fitness as a low-impact workout with other expecting women will not only strengthen your heart, lungs and muscles but will [...]
Exercising for 20 minutes at a time, three days a week should be enough to keep you healthy and looking good. Stop when you feel you should, slow down when you can’t breathe or talk comfortably.
Regular exercise is safer than occasional bursts of exercise and remember to always warm up gradually and make sure you [...]
High risk sports – with any potential for falling or getting short of breath. Save scuba diving, horseback riding and water skiing for after your pregnancy.
Biking – is not a dangerous thing to do, though it should be pursued more cautiously during your pregnancy, especially in your second and third trimester.
Running – is not a [...]
This is another good exercise for strengthening your abdominal muscles.
Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor.
Inhale and allow your abdomen to expand.
Exhale and lift your tailbone toward your navel, keeping your hips on the floor.
At the top of the tilt, tighten your buttocks, then release. Repeat 8 [...]
If you had an episiotomy or if your perineum feels bruised or swollen, then doing Kegel exercises to tighten your pelvic floor muscles will improve circulation to the area and help avoid problems such as incontinence. These muscles tire easily, so it’s best to do several contractions repeatedly throughout the day rather than in one [...]
This exercise will help you start toning your abdominal muscles, but don’t be discouraged if you can’t feel the muscles working. It can take weeks to start recovering your strength and your progress depends on how fit you were before getting pregnant.
Lie on your back with your knees bent and your hands behind your head.
Take [...]
