WHAT IS PILATES AND WHY CAN IT SUPPORT DURING PREGNANCY?
Pilates is an excellent holistic workout that challenges both body and mind. It trains coordination, helps make your body more resilient and stronger, allowing for healthier movement patterns.
The whole-body workout primarily strengthens the muscles of the abdomen, back and pelvic floor.
Pilates thus trains the areas of the body that are particularly strained during pregnancy and childbirth.
Healthy sports activity during pregnancy not only improves health, it also helps to make childbirth easier. Moderate sport is healthy during the whole pregnancy.
Pregnancy Pilates should exclude exercises for the straight abdominal muscles and in the supine position.
The main focus of pregnancy Pilates is to build strength and endurance in the arms and legs. This is important for the birth and essential for carrying the baby afterwards. Furthermore, it is important to deal with the mobilization of the spine because the baby bump pulls the pregnant woman into a hollow back and so you can prevent or solve back pain and achieve a healthier posture.
Pregnancy Pilates helps to spend the pregnancy weeks with joy and pleasure, to get a lot of strength for the delivery and afterwards a fast healing can take place during the regression. The exercises train coordination and promote relaxation.
The hormone Relaxin, which is produced in the ovaries and placenta of a pregnant woman, makes the connective tissue more stretchable. Stretching should therefore always be done with control and increased only slowly so that no overstretching takes place.
It is important to listen to one's own body at all times, no over-ambition or any challenge, it should be purely about the well-being of the pregnant woman and the unborn child.
The pregnant body changes from day to day and from week to week, this must always be taken into account in training and, if necessary, react to it and adjust the training.
It is recommended to contact your doctor beforehand to see if there are any health reasons that could prevent you from doing pregnancy Pilates. If pain, weakness or uncertainty is felt whether the exercises are the right thing, you should always stop the exercise and ask your trainer.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Warm greetings,
Sabrina
