DANCEAEROBIC FOR PREGNANT WOMEN
All pregnant women should exercise regularly in order to maintain and even emprove their general condition during pregnancy and helping to prepare the body for birth. It is not about achieving top performance, but preserving good general health and muscle tone and also develop a positive attitude and excellent posture. Calm and moderate physical activity should be the main part of expecting mothers' training program.
Felliews Dance Studio in Tromsø is perfect for pregnant women! Our Dance Aerobics program for expecting mothers, as a form of exercise for expecting mothers has the goal to provide safe training at all stages during pregnancy. It is to help future mothers to stay active to prevent or minimize aches, anxiety and lack of energy and promote comfort, mobility and endurance. Theprogram involves that the women move their bodies to music while maintaining theirmuscular tone at all times.
Dance aerobics include all the elements you find in any well structured dance program. One trains core muscles, precision, flexibility, flowing of movement, strength, breathing, balance, alignment of the spine, artistic expression and physical fitness.
TRAINING BENEFITS
- In general training is good for the expecting mother's body. It helps to improve muscular fitness.
- Helps to deal with the growing weight of their body.
- Helps to deal with the different responses in the body due to hormonal changes.
- Helps to increase the core strength and pelvic floor control.
- Help to improve or maintain strength in arms and legs.
- Rises stamina levels, so the expecting mother feels less tired.
- Improves women's mood by reducing stress and anxiety, because exercise stimulates the production of endorphin.
- Helps to keep blood preassure levels low, heart rate steady and healthy lungs. Pregnant women often notice that they feel out of breath more quickly than they used to. In fact, during pregnancy, women are breathing 20 to 25 percent more air because they need to get rid of the carbon dioxide levels in their blood - even the baby produces carbon dioxide, which is transfered to the mothers's blood -.
- Helps with their ankles, legs, and lower back.
- Helps to improve posture.
- Helps with circulatory improvements for providing oxygen to the baby.
FIRST TRIMESTER
The most dramatic changes and development for a baby occur during this stage. Not only the implantation happens, but most organs take form at this stage.
FIRST TRIMESTER SYMPTOMS
- It is important that the expecting mother shares her feelings with her doctor, friends and family, because Perinatal Depression may occur.
- Fatigue is normal. In consequence, it is important to plan periods of activity and time to rest. One must stop before becomming overtired!
- Headaches are common and usually due to hormonal changes.
- One must drink lots of water to avoid dehydration due to the loss of liquids.
- Light headedness may occur, so one should stand up slowly at all times - whether during exercise or any other activity.
- Expecting mothers should maintain a healthy flow of fresh air during training or any other activity to reduce the shortness of breath, which in most cases could be normal.
- Slight physical changes in the body of the expecting mother at this stage.
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