Swimming and Pregnancy
Swimming is one of the best sports you can practice without any problem throughout pregnancy. The fact of floating in the water allows tonifiques all your muscles without force them violently, like other violent activities. Besides swimming, you will also help in maintaining your weight and makes you burn more calories than those few that your baby does not need.
It is proven that swimming, apart from toning muscles, relaxes, improves breathing capacity and position of your spine, reducing back pain so common during pregnancy. Besides being a fun physical activity you can do with your partner, the water will make you lose the feeling of excess body weight, especially in the last trimester of pregnancy and will relieve back pain.
As to the different styles of swimming, it strongly discourages the butterfly. Will combine different types of refined, using the most compatible for each person according to their preferences.
We must take into account other aspects such as:
• Make the movements in a softened.
• Do not ever reaching the point of exhaustion. If any symptoms of dizziness or fainting should stop the session immediately.
• Conduct a low intensity aerobic work.
• Perform all movements on coordination with breathing rates.
Other water exercises like jumping or diving, will be banned. First, the risk of trauma to the pregnant woman and the second by the possibility of causing injury to the baby.
The benefits we report the different styles are:
Crawl: This style is achieved correct breathing rate workout. It promotes and enhances neuromuscular coordination of the abdomen muscles.
Back: It will be beneficial especially as regards problems of the spine, common in pregnancy. It will be convenient to perform the backstroke double.
Breaststroke: One of the styles indicated during pregnancy. It should serve is made with a decontraction muscle in the lower back, where there are tensions involuntary. It is good to exercise the adductors-abductors.