The importance of being active before pregnancy

Since last post, "Exercise in postpartum period" we haven't talked about how important is performing physical activity before pregnancy.

There are posts where we have talked about the way of doing physical activity, which exercises to perform, which recommendation, etc.

Therefore, in this post we are going to talk about an investigation done by Hayes et al. (2015) four days ago. They tried to find out a pattern of physical activity (PA) and factors associated with change in PA in obese pregnant women.

As we know, being obese while pregnant can develope complications such as spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, high blood pressure and gestational diabetes (Linné, 2004).

The results obtained at the end of the research were that those women who performed physical activity before being pregnant continue doing it. Otherwise, those who were sedentary or didn't perform so much exercise had problems carrying on with the exercises.

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Hayes, L., Mcparlin, C., Kinnunen, T. I., Poston, L., Robson, S. C., & Bell, R. (2015). Change in level of physical activity during pregnancy in obese women: findings from the UPBEAT pilot trial. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 15(1), 52.

Linne, Y. (2004). Effects of obesity on women's reproduction and complications during pregnancy. Obesity reviews, 5(3), 137-143.