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Practice physical activity during pregnancy is essential and very beneficial. Prevents overweight, improves circulation, tones the muscles, helps prevent pregnancy discomfort and prepares the body for childbirth and postpartum.
However, the summer heat, added to the physical changes during pregnancy, can make you feel more tired and make you more lazy to move. But don't worry, exercising doesn't have to turn into martyrdom. There is a sport with which you can improve your health and fitness, as well as refresh yourself. Is about swimming, a sport suitable for almost all audiences and that provides multiple benefits, especially during pregnancy.
Benefits of swimming during pregnancy
Swimming is one of the most complete and recommended sports whether you are pregnant or not. But, in the case of pregnant women, it has many benefits compared to other sports.
- In water, body weight is reduced to one tenth, which allows pregnant women to easily perform movements that would be difficult out of the water. In addition, water has the ability to cushion impacts so you are unlikely to make sudden movements and injure yourself.
- In the water you will feel light despite the belly and you will stop noticing the tension in your back for a while.
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- The movement and the horizontal position that you adopt when swimming, favor the circulation of the blood, thus preventing the varicose veins, swelling and cramps.
- It is an aerobic exercise that increases lung capacity and improves cardiovascular system.
- Swimming helps you relax the body, improving its flexibility and endurance. What's more strengthens muscles, ligaments and joints.
- Reduces stress and nervous tension so you will sleep better and arrive more relaxed at the time of delivery.
- It helps you to avoid overweight.
- Being in the water you protect yourself from the heat
As you see, Swimming brings you multiple benefits that will help you cope much better with physical and emotional changes that occur during pregnancy. But do not forget that you will have to adapt the intensity of the exercise to each stage of pregnancy and to your physical condition. And above all, before starting any physical activity, you should consult with your doctor or midwife to give you the go-ahead and you can enjoy swimming without risks.