Nowadays, there are multiple scientific studies that support the benefits of Physical Exercise for our health in its broad sense – mental, physical and metabolic -, added to good life habits: stress management, adequate rest, optimal nutrition, and healthy social relationships among others.
One of the clear examples, when including the practice of physical exercise in our lives, is the improvement of important values such as: blood glucose regulation to avoid insulin resistance problems, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, improved cardio pulmonary capacity, decreased visceral and body fat, increased muscle mass and prevention of osteoporosis, release of hormones that make us feel good, decreased cortisol and anxiety, prevention of neurodegenerative diseases, improvement of our intestinal microbiota, improvement of our immune system, increased brain plasticity, increased creation of neurons and a long etcetera.
If we put ourselves in the concrete case, on a biological level, the greatest expression of health for a woman is fertility, including those good life habits intensifies the woman’s health. Making the simile of what we see in nature, it also happens in the human being; when a plant is very healthy, it is in a perfect place where it gets the nutrients it needs, sun and water, its expression of health is to grow and give life to other plants and flowers, it is the same thing that happens when a woman can give life, it is the maximum expression of health for her biology and physiology. Your tissues, organs and apparatus must be in optimal conditions to be able to create life and become pregnant.
In addition to all the benefits of physical exercise for a woman’s fertility that we have mentioned, continuing this practice during pregnancy with professionals specialized in this physiological stage, adapting to these new needs, will result in nine months where the mother will find herself increasingly prepared. Pregnancy itself can be compared to preparing for a competition. If during the 9 months the mother has been preparing herself physically and psychologically, she will arrive at the day of delivery (the competition) more confident, stronger, more resistant and with more tools to know how to do it.
It will also help the correct development of the baby in each of the trimesters, there are numerous scientific studies that emphasize the importance of movement during pregnancy, thus helping the baby’s vestibular and visual system to develop correctly.
Other benefits are weight control during those months, reversing possible diseases that may appear during pregnancy such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia or ailments such as lumbago, citalgias, pubalgias, as well as preparing important tissues during pregnancy and childbirth (vaginal or cesarean) such as the pelvic floor muscles and the deep abdominal muscles.
In our Óptimo Sport center, we have the best professionals with training and specialization in women’s health during all physiological processes, where we individualize and evaluate each case to optimize the health and performance of each person, and discover the best version of each one.
