Female 1 Although Pilates has been around for quite a while it seems to be having a renewed resurgence that is catching on with new moms all across the country. But is it safe during pregnancy? We will find out in our next segment.
Female 2 the primary benefits for Pilates work out are to develop what we call core-stability. Joseph Pilates was ahead of his time and he realized that a person needed synergy between the back muscles and the abdominal muscles.
Muscles that incase the trunk of our body and service the core, the core is very important for a pregnant woman. The uterus as it expands and the baby gets heavy puts pressure on many other organs in the body such as the pelvic floor muscles.
Since the pelvic floor actually slims the body all of those organs the bladder, the uterus, they rest on the sling. Now in terms of the birthing process any muscle that is stronger and can contract more strongly will certainly help in helping expel the baby.
Among the many benefits that pelvic floor strengthening has one is in minimizing or even preventing incontinence because it is the same muscles that support the bladder muscles as well.
Female 1 In approach to pregnant woman to get involve in Pilates is probably going to be a two prong approach. Getting medical clearance and finding once again a qualified instructor. Somebody with experience and who also works with woman who are pregnant.
Precautions very common sense types of things and you would not want to engage in any movements that have you rolling, clear over onto your neck, putting the weight of the baby over the top of your chest, just anything that seems too extreme or too gymnastically like.
Female 2 Basically all of the Pilates exercise whether you are doing it on a piece of equipment such as the reformer or the trapeze; there is the wonder chair, all of that evolved from doing exercises on the mat. And at home that is easily done, you really do not have mat, if you have carpet that can serve as your mat.
There are some key techniques, concentrate on flattening in depending on any exercise you may be doing but she need to keep in mind one is activating the pelvic floor that we talked about earlier and in turn activating your abdominal muscles to keep your trunk stable.
In modern times less is more so learning how to activate the abdominal muscles, to just a minimal degree and being able to hold them in place while you are doing the exercises are little tips that go a long way in getting you stronger and helping you to do those exercises correctly.
Female 1 After pregnancy a woman really needs to be patient and take a multi faceted approach toward returning to her pre pregnancy weight. There are so many hormonal changes that still churning away in the body that have their own time course. And to force those by not eating properly especially if you are nursing, are only going to do things like slow down your metabolism and make the effort all that much more troublesome.
A woman also needs to exercise. The CDC recommends exercising five, six seven days a week just something moderate.
Female 2 It is necessary to incorporate a cardiovascular work out option such as walking, doing the stairs stepper activity step class, doing the step now cardiovascular and driven type of activity.
For a complete program your body really needs to experience the variety of those activities. There are over 500 Pilates exercises and you can do as few as five to ten and a ten minute time interval. You have 30 minutes, there are so many exercises you can do in that period of time but less than that with Pilates would work beautifully.
Pilates among many form of exercise really is something that a new mom can realistically fit in to her life.
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