Exercise in Pregnancy: Across 106 Studies and 273,182 Women, Exercise Alone Cut the Odds of Gestational Diabetes (OR 0.62), Hypertension (0.61) and Pre-eclampsia (0.59), With No Mortality Signal
Sep 25
4 min read
Of all the exercise-safety questions coaches get asked, pregnancy is the one where the folk rules are most out of date. Keep the heart rate under 140, no lifting, stop in the third trimester: none of that survives contact with the evidence base that now exists, which runs to more than a hundred studies and a quarter of a million women. This article covers pregnancy specifically; youth training and low-back rehabilitation are dealt with in their own articles.
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