Maintaining your physical fitness during pregnancy is important. During your pregnancy, the last thing you want to worry about is staying in shape, but it will actually help you during and after your pregnancy. Although some of your activities might be limited by the pregnancy, this article will give you some tips for maintaining your physical fitness during your pregnancy.
A great fitness tip for runners who experience sore calves would be to sleep on your belly and let your feet dangle off the bed. Over the course of the night, your calves will stretch out just from being in this position. Of course, stretching, warming up and cooling down are also going to assist you with this.
One of the most underrated aspects of fitness is a good nights sleep! If you are not well rested how can you ever expect to be motivated and energetic enough for your workout the next day? It also is known by too few individuals that you actually burn calories while sleeping, in fact more so than you do watching television!
Make sure that the shoes you buy for your workout actually fit your feet properly. Your feet are biggest during the middle of the day, so that is the optimal time to go shopping for a pair that fits. The fit should be just right, not too loose or too tight. Make sure that you also have about a half inch of space at the toe for some wiggle room.
When starting a new fitness plan, especially if you have not worked out in a while or are seriously out of shape, do not rush it. ‘All or nothing’ is not the way to go when it comes to getting into shape. Start slowly, and work your way up to more intense workouts.
One of the most common and preventable causes of muscle strain and injury during workouts, is exercising while wearing old, worn-out shoes that are no longer able to cushion and support the foot. Think of your workout shoes as any other perishable item and assign an “expiration date”. For even the highest quality shoes, five hundred miles is the typical lifespan.
If you have a dead tree on your property and are thinking of having a service remove it for you, you should reconsider. If you cut up the tree yourself with an axe or even a chainsaw, and then chop the logs to firewood with an axe, you will give yourself many great workouts and save on your fuel bill too!
Never exercise if you are not feeling well. When you exercise, your body is causing a bit of damage to your muscles, which it needs to repair to make them stronger. If you are sick, your body is busy repairing other issues. Exercising will only make you feel worse.
As stated at the beginning of this article, maintaining your physical fitness throughout your pregnancy is very important. It can be hard to get motivated when you have a huge belly, but it will be beneficial in the long run. Hopefully, this article has given you some great tips you can incorporate into your daily life. Your body will thank you later!