The benefits of exercising during pregnancy

What are the benefits of exercising during pregnancy?

Benefits related to the mother: Many pregnant women find that doing sports makes their bodies and physical conditions more adapted to pregnancy.

Possible benefits of exercising are improving fatigue, reducing back pain, reducing varicose veins, leg veins, and reducing leg and knee pain. Sports movements improve muscle tone and strength. This increase in muscle strength and tonicity allows pregnant women to tolerate weight gain during pregnancy well, and finally, doing sports helps you prepare your body for childbirth.

Exercises during pregnancy improve your physical health. Keeping fit during pregnancy reduces anxiety, stress and depression. Improving sleep is another benefit of exercising.

Reduce stress and anxiety: Exercise during pregnancy can help reduce stress and anxiety and increase your happiness and satisfaction with yourself and pregnancy.

Which of the sports is prohibited during pregnancy?

Avoid doing sports that require you to lie on your back, especially after 16 weeks of pregnancy.

Avoid doing sports that may injure your abdomen, such as kickboxing, judo, and squash.

Since during pregnancy, due to hormonal reasons, your joints lose their normal stability, there is a possibility that you will fall and injure yourself. Therefore, you should take extra care during sports where you may fall and lose your balance, such as horseback riding, skiing, ice hockey, gymnastics, and cycling. Remember that your body's center of gravity changes during pregnancy and your reaction becomes slower than usual. Therefore, it is better to avoid doing the above exercises, unless you used to do these exercises regularly and daily. In this case, you can do these exercises daily and regularly by taking more care of yourself.

Avoid diving in water during pregnancy, because your baby has no protection against this pressure.

Avoid doing sports at altitudes higher than 2,500 meters until you have adapted to this altitude.