Sports and pregnancy - compatible?

Agree that often, doing sports, we are so accustomed to this, that we simply do not imagine what would happen if we left our favorite skis or bicycles, skates, swimming pool and other useful pleasures. And meanwhile, when pregnancy comes, you have to think and sometimes make a choice. How compatible are sports and pregnancy and are they compatible at all?
Remember, mothers and grandmothers told us - rest more, relax, eat for two. Yes, and official medicine believed that sports and pregnancy - not best friends.
Nevertheless, life does not stand still, and in our time to pregnancy quite a different attitude. After all, pregnancy is not a disease, but because sports and pregnancy are quite harmoniously complement each other. The main thing is to observe the principle of reasonableness.
And now about everything in order. So, let's say you are an avid skier. How now to behave? Do you really have to give up skiing? Let's start with how the doctor assesses your overall health. Do you have a threat of miscarriage, do you enter a risk group for one reason or another? If the answer is negative, then you do not have to change cardinally during pregnancy. Ski walks are useful, but choose an ordinary smooth ski track, without descents and ascents. But in the second half of pregnancy from ski walks it is better to refuse altogether, and this has its own reasons, since active sports can provoke premature birth.
If you are a lover of bicycles with experience, then - in a good way. But if the experience of riding is small or you do not know how to keep on a bicycle, then leave your attempts to saddle a two-wheeled friend. Remember, that in pregnant women coordination is impaired, so choose a safe sport.
In general, sports and pregnancy are good when there is preliminary sports training, and to learn new types of sports activity for themselves, being in an interesting position is not the best option.
Separately, I want to say about running. In the first half of pregnancy, you can go for a run for about 20-30 minutes, just run calmly smooth step, without claiming to conquer the marathon distances. In the second half of pregnancy, it is better to replace running with walking, it will be much more useful.

So, briefly summarizing, it turns out that sports and pregnancy, suitable for its "finale" are incompatible? Not at all. Just in this period you need to be as sharp as possible and choose something simpler, for example, swimming. By the way, the pool during pregnancy did not prevent anyone else. As you know, even special classes are held for pregnant women, sport in water or aqua aerobics. Visit group classes, so you will get both physical relaxation and moral support.
Sport in the full sense of the word is better to cancel, replacing it with exercises. It is ideal for large rubber balls, which improve the circulation of the pelvis and coordination of movements, relieve tension from the muscles of the back and spine. It can not be called a sport in the full sense of the word, but this is exactly what you need right now.
There are some other sports that are quite compatible with pregnancy. For example, tennis. Fine stretching exercises, and you do not have to run a lot.
And yet, what experts recommend is an exercise bike, which is much more useful than a bicycle. That is safer. Only need to pre-ventilate the room, and then practice for about 20 minutes. After that, again get out into the fresh air, since after such exercises the need for oxygen sharply increases, the lungs start to work in a literal sense for two.
Move, travel, know the world, develop, just do not sit in four walls. Do you remember what we said at the beginning of the article? Pregnancy is not a disease!