I will be a beautiful and healthy mother!
Published April 16, 2011 | 
The beauty of motherhood in all ages was sung by poets and artists. Pregnancy adorns woman. Well, a mother with a child in her hands is the subject of admiration and joy. However, over the worries about the child, women forget about themselves and gradually begin to notice that they look in the mirror without former pleasure…
Meanwhile, taking care of the appearance and health in this crucial period is desirable to be even more careful than in the rest of the time. Pregnancy leads to the restructuring of the whole organism. Hormonal changes, which, in general, improve metabolism and have beneficial effect on a woman’s body, can aggravate the work of other organs and systems.
The blood system of the future mother, has also a hard time. To ensure a baby with full nutrients and oxygen during the pregnancy, in the body increases the blood volume by 20-30%. Plus together with the increase of the body weight of pregnant women, there greatly increases the load on the legs that get tired more quickly than usual and often become swollen. A growing uterus compresses the pelvic vessels, which hinders the normal venous outflow. Pregnancy is one of the causes of varicose veins in women.
Traditional prevention of varicose veins is wearing medical compression stockings or socks for pregnant women. In order to find the model and size ask for help the doctor-phlebologist. But this is not enough. One should also revise her way of life: exclude lasting standing, staying in the upright position and long walks.
In Russia, for the prevention of the varicose veins has become available a relatively new physiotherapy – pressure therapy. Pressure therapy uses a specially stitched pants corset, consisting of more than two dozen airbags. Using a computer, in these airbags is alternately injected the compressed air, representing a kind of “squeezing massage, which stimulates the movement of the lymph, disperses fluid retention in the tissues, reduces swelling and pressure on the vessels. As a result the circulation of the lymph and the interstitial fluid becomes normal and accordingly there is improved the venous circulation, activating metabolism.
With increasing the weight by 8-10 kg recommended by doctors, your shape undergoes significant changes and your skin – some extra load, there appears cellulite; one of the following issues will tell how to fight it. Due to the hormonal rearrangements, strong physical exertion, emotional distress and other causes a woman suffers a lot of problems with appearance – with weight, skin, hair and nails.
However, you should not despair: you should dedicate a few minutes to yourself – to make a mask, a soak in a fragrant bath, to read or do a hobby.
And do not worry about the acquired kilograms – now they are necessary for your baby and after the childbirth during the year the body regulates the weight of a woman. If you want to get in shape as quickly as possible, then keep in mind the methods and systems that allow restoring your strength and gradually enter into the active pace of life (for instance, wellness), – they are best suited after 9 months of sedentary life.
Fitness for pregnant women
Published April 16, 2011 | Not so long ago, doctors recommended the future mothers not to move too much. Today these recommendations are outdated and are considered to be unfounded.
Pregnancy, if it develops normally, is not a reason to abandon exercises. On the contrary, they do great favor for future mothers. As execution of safe exercises during pregnancy has absolutely no negative impact on the growth and development of the fetus, as well as the fact that exercises do not alter the physiological course of pregnancy and childbirth. Regular and properly fitted exercises contribute to the harmonious pregnancy, increase the physical capacity of the female body, improve the cardiovascular, respiratory and nervous systems, have a positive effect on metabolism, all these lead to the state when mother and her future baby are provided with sufficient oxygen.
Exercises have a positive effect on the postpartum period. Everybody knows how motherhood might affect the shape. Excess weight, lost muscle tone of the belly, stretched muscles of the chest, weak back, aching waist, varicose veins – with the help of fitness of all these troubles can be avoided or at least minimized. Doctors do not tire of repeating: how fast you can return to your previous shape after the childbirth depends on how you’ve spent the 9 months waiting for a child – lying on the couch or in a more or less active regimen. Moreover, the process of childbirth among the sports mothers is easier than the of lazy mothers, – first, because the trained heart, lungs and the appropriate muscles at this crucial moment help both woman and child. And secondly, in response to the physical stress, the body accumulates endorphin, which subsequently acts as a kind of anesthetic.
Before starting to exercise, the future mother should consult with her physician to find out about possible contraindications to the exercises and to determine her physical level. The most important in drawing up a training program is the connection between the exercises and the gestational age, analysis of health status and processes in each trimester, reaction of the body to stress.
The safest period for the sport is the second trimester, during the first and the third periods it is necessary to behave more cautiously. Many women think that they should be particularly active during the early weeks of pregnancy. And actually everything is on the opposite. In the first weeks of pregnancy when in place of placenta there is functioning the villi chorionic, the fertilized egg can be compared with a grain, which only recently was dropped into the ground. The sprout has let its roots, but it’s small, shaky and with rough handling can be lost. The same is with the human embryo during the first period it requires very careful handling. During the first months more than during in the next months, there exists the threat of miscarriage, which can result from excessive physical activity: very often during the early periods women are leading a very active lifestyle, take heavy bags, etc. Of course, this is not the only, but at the same time, one of the important reasons for miscarriage.
Flat tummy after childbirth
Published April 16, 2011 | In addition to the joys of motherhood after giving birth women are often awaited by the most importantly disorder – a very noticeable tummy that does not disappear even if you suck it in and the waist is not as before. This brings bad mood and lowered self-esteem. Let’s talk about how to make your tummy flat.
Features of the female physique
Many women associate the dream of an ideal flat tummy with a total weight loss. And even start their way towards the ideal by practicing various methods of regulation of the body weight. The kilograms gradually decrease and the weight seems to be normal, but the physique remains imperfect as the tummy does not become flat stomach and the waist- thin. There appear quite obvious questions: what is it connected with and how to proceed?
The fact is that even with a normal weight of the body the fat deposits can be unevenly distributed. So, some lean women have a rather large layer of fat on the abdomen, buttocks and thighs. That is why to have a good shape it is important not to compare weight with height but the size of the fat layer.
For a healthy woman the normal indicator is considered to be 23-24 per cent of fat, while 10-12 percent of it is accumulated in chest, buttocks and inner thighs (trained athletes usually have only 10-15 per cent of fat).
It is believed that an adult woman can hardly achieve the rate below 17 per cent moreover, the reduction of body fat till 13 per cent can significantly harm your health.
During pregnancy, as a result of hormonal changes in the body the fat layer increases. It should protect the fetus from external influences. This is especially true for the belly, that is why after the childbirth, in addition to the stretched muscles, which will eventually have to come back to normal, there remains the fat layer on the belly. That’s why it emerges, looks rough and ugly.
What can be done in this situation? It is necessary to reduce the percentage of fat, simultaneously increasing the strength of the abdominal muscles, giving them the desired shape.
Work with the abdominal muscles
The shape of the belly depends on the thickness of the fat layer and condition of the muscles of the abdominal wall. Normal is considered to be a condition when the abdominal wall emerges quite a bit and the belly remains flat. The weakness of this group of muscles leads to the formation of an emerged or pendulous abdomen. To improve their tone you can turn to the exercise to work out the abdominal muscles, which are divided into four types:
Work with feet with the motionless body – lifting and lowering, bending and straightening, cross and circular movements, etc. These movements strengthen the lower part of the abdominal muscles.
Work of the body at the fixed legs – lifting, lowering, turning the torso, etc. In this way is strengthened the upper section of the abdominal muscles.
Simultaneous work of the torso and legs – as a rule, the movement includes most of the abdominal muscles.
Cross work of the torso and legs. The load is receiving by the obliques, which form the lateral muscular wall of the abdomen.
For the exercise it is necessary to remember that the abdominal muscles on one side are attached to the lower edges of the ribs and on the other – to the pelvis. So, while raising the legs you have to raise and the pelvis. When performing the complex lying on the back and lifting the knees to the belly, do not be lazy to detach your pelvis from the floor, bringing your knees to the forehead.