Exercising while pregnant: do not increase your training load once you have found out you are pregnant.
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- Ensure you maintain a comfortable body temperature, don’t train out in the middle of the day or in gymnasiums with no air conditioning;
- Use the “talk test” as a good measure of intensity. If you cannot talk comfortably during the exercise you then you may need to lower your intensity;
- Some guidelines suggest that you do not exceed a heart rate over 140bpm (drawing blood away from the placenta);
- Reduce your abdominal isolated movements, don’t perform abdominal crunches and if any movement feels uncomfortable, you are better off avoiding it;
- Do not increase your training load.
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