Can Heavy Lifting Continue Safely in Pregnancy? Across 135 Studies and 166,094 Pregnancies, Exercise Cut the Odds of a Large Baby by 39% and Showed No Harm Signal; Heavy-Load Trials Are Still Missing
Oct 25
4 min read
A pregnant lifter is usually given one of two answers: stop, or carry on exactly as before. Neither is what the evidence says. The pooled literature on prenatal exercise is large, recent and reassuring about exercise in general, including resistance training as one modality, but it does not contain trials of heavy barbell loading. This article separates what is well established from what is still an inference, so the decision can be made on numbers rather than nerves.
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