{"id":20937,"date":"2017-09-08T12:39:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/public\/?p=20937"},"modified":"2021-07-01T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T23:29:35","slug":"prenatal-exercise-program-design-exercise-duration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/prenatal-exercise-program-design-exercise-duration\/","title":{"rendered":"Prenatal Exercise Program Design: Exercise Duration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Exercise duration during pregnancy should reflect a woman\u2019s current level of fitness and the type of activity she is doing. If you\u2019re working with someone who\u2019s just starting a prenatal exercise program the duration will be shorter (15-20 minutes) and progress slowly over time to 30-60 minutes. A pregnant woman who is already taking part in a fitness routine can continue with her current duration level, but exercise duration should be modified as needed to enable her to achieve a moderate to somewhat hard level of intensity without discomfort or undue fatigue.<\/p>\n

Some exercise activities, such as swimming, may require a longer duration in order to achieve a moderate to somewhat hard intensity, so close monitoring of exercise intensity will help determine whether a longer bout is needed. As pregnancy progresses, pregnant women may find that they are able to tolerate a longer duration, lower intensity exercise bout better than a higher intensity, shorter bout, but avoid taking the intensity below the targeted zone of 12 to 14 on the 20-point scale or 3 to 4 on the 10-point scale.<\/p>\n

In the case where a pregnant woman is having difficulty maintaining her normal exercise duration, try dividing the workout into two shorter sessions during the day. This is a helpful tool for enabling women to continue to exercise when she\u2019s experiencing more fatigue in later pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Want to learn more about how to develop a safe and effective maternal fitness program?<\/strong> The CE correspondence course “Prenatal and Postpartum Exercise Design” is available ppfconsulting.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Catherine Cram, MS, is the owner of Comprehensive Fitness Consulting, a company that provides pre- and postnatal fitness certifications and information to hospitals, health & wellness organizations and the military.<\/em><\/p>\n

Article reprinted from her blog<\/a> with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exercise duration during pregnancy should reflect a woman\u2019s current level of fitness and the type of activity she is doing. If you\u2019re working with someone who\u2019s just starting a prenatal exercise program the duration will be shorter (15-20 minutes) and progress slowly over time to 30-60 minutes. A pregnant woman who is already taking part in a fitness routine can continue with her current duration level, but exercise duration should be modified as needed to enable her to achieve a moderate to somewhat hard level of intensity without discomfort or undue fatigue. Some exercise activities, such as swimming, may require a longer duration in order to achieve a moderate to somewhat hard intensity, so close monitoring of exercise intensity will help determine whether a longer bout is needed. As pregnancy progresses, pregnant women may find that they are able to tolerate a longer duration, lower intensity exercise bout better than a higher intensity, shorter bout, but avoid taking the intensity below the targeted zone of 12 to 14 on the 20-point scale or 3 to 4 on the 10-point scale. In the case where a pregnant woman is having difficulty maintaining her normal exercise duration, try dividing the workout into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":10198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,198,90,257],"class_list":["post-20937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-professionals","tag-pre-postnatal","tag-womens-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30292,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937\/revisions\/30292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}