If you are preparing to get pregnant, getting in good physical shape is really worthwhile. Regular Exercise helps you throughout your pregnancy and will help you shed that undesirable baby weight faster and will in fact, interestingly, boost your conception chances. Here are the best exercises to get you prepped:
1. Walking
Walking is a natural way to unwind and will come a great deal to keeping hormones at a great balance in your body. Walking for at least 45 -60 minutes a day is a great plus on your way to pregnancy and helps also to improve your cardio which is helpful to both the incoming baby and to you as well.
2. Kegels
This has to be the most important of all exercises that doctors encourage women preparing for pregnancy to do. Kegels can be described as ‘continuous contracting of the muscles around the pelvic floor region in a bid to strengthen those muscles’. Kegels help minimize urinary incontinence or problems and give your pelvic muscles a grip even after pregnancy. Kegel exercises need to start far much earlier and should be done regularly, say 10 Kegels each and every day.
3. Squats
Learning how to perform proper squats can help you keep away from knee, back and hip pain all which are pretty frequent during pregnancy. Proper squats involve standing with legs a bit wider than your shoulder distance making sure your knees and thighs are turned out. Doing around 25 squats,3 times a week can really help to build strength in the whole you lower body and may be helpful when your hips may be required to open up a bit more for labor
3. Push Ups
Pregnancy requires you to have very strong belly, back, shoulder and chest muscles in order to support the added weight of the one growing in you. If you can manage to push up yourself you will definitely have no problem carrying your growing child. When doing push-ups keep your hands a little wider than the shoulder distance and try to lower your body as entire unit and exhale as you push yourself up. 30 push-ups, 2- 3 time in a week is recommendable.
4. Tricep Dips
Women are proven to carry quite a large amount of estrogen in their triceps and too much of this, researchers hint, can cause excess storage of fats. It doesn’t really need telling which hormone women will have more during the pregnancy stage and as such you, need to keep this hormone in control.
Good triceps’ dips can keep these hormones in check. They can be done by elevating your body using a chair or table with your fingers pointing in a forward direction and the elbows pointing backwards. Lower your body away from the chair so that your elbows make a 90-degree angle with the shoulders and exhale as you push yourself back. 20 triceps’ dips a day, 3 times in a week will make that body ready!
5. Swimming
Going out for a swim is one of the most recommended exercises to prep for pregnancy largely because it gives one that ‘weightless feeling’ that will come helpful as you go through your heaviest months. Swimming not only improves your cardio but also keeps hormones in check keeping off undesirable imbalances and effects
The above exercises are the very best of exercises to prepare your body for pregnancy, however, it is usually advisable to consult your physician before you begin, just for precautionary purposes. These exercises should begin early and you should try to make them your habit for smooth transitioning even after getting pregnant. Good luck on your journey!
