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Prenatal Fitness: Exercise During Pregnancy
The booklet “Prenatal Fitness: Exercise During Pregnancy” was developed and written by exercise physiologist and maternal fitness expert, Catherine Cram, MS. For the past decade, Catherine has developed and instructed innovative, medically based pre-and postnatal fitness programs. “Prenatal Fitness: Exercise During Pregnancy” provides the most current, safe and effective prenatal fitness information to pregnant women.
Topics in the booklet include:
- Benefits of prenatal exercise
- Contraindications to exercise and warning signs and symptoms
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines
- Information on cardiovascular fitness program design
- Tips on safe strength training
- Innovation flexibility exercises
- Exercises and techniques designed specifically for abdominal and pelvic floor strengthening
- Proper body mechanics and lifting techniques
- 22 pages of text with full-color photographs of strength and flexibility exercises as well as instructional illustrations of pelvic floor and diastasis recti self-check
- References and organizations for further information