Exercising is just as important when you are pregnant to build bones and muscles. Exercising gives your energy and keeps you healthy during pregnancy.

During your pregnancy many changes are taking place. With regular exercise and staying active this can benefit your pregnancy and your health.

Some changes will affect your ability to exercise. During pregnancy you are carrying some extras pounds, this extra weigh can contribute to the front of your body having shifts in gravity and places stress on joints and muscles, mostly those in the pelvis and lower back. The hormones that are produced during pregnancy causes the ligaments that support your joints to become relaxed. Your heart rate is sometimes affected by this extra weight and that makes your body work harder then when you were not pregnant. So it is important for you not to overdo it. (more…)