Pilates Exercises For Pregnant Women

Pilates is an exercise form that effectively merges suppleness and strength training along with body alertness, breathing and loosening up. These exercises are basically particular movement styles done employing the abdomen and the muscles of the pelvic floor dubbed as the base or stable core or deep stabilizing muscles.

The nine-month long gestation period would lead to stretching of the ab muscles by more than fifty percent from what it originally was. Hence, the abdominal muscles need to be strengthened when pregnant to provide support for the enlarging uterus. Women that practiced Safe Pilates exercises to strengthen their abdominal muscles experienced lesser extent of lower back discomfort, pelvic pain, were more mobile, had uncomplicated birthing process and quicker recuperation periods.

Prior to attempting any form of Pilates exercises, it is imperative to ascertain that one could do a pelvic floor contraction exercise. This could be performed by compressing the pelvic floor muscles and hold this for no less than ten seconds. In case one fails in maintaining a stable core by constricting the muscles of the pelvic floor and the lower portion of the abdomen, then one is likely to overstress the joints and tendons while exercising.