Working the legs pre-pregnancy is vital. It will give greater stability and decrease the risk of falls enabling you to be more active during your pregnancy.
How can you tone the legs? It takes hard work and consistency, but not as much as you may fear! Once you get into it you?ll find that the benefits are well worth the effort.
Workout programme
The workout starts with a warm up of your choice, then general mobilisation movements to prepare the body for exercising and then into the exercises, finishing with stretching. The workout also comes with FREE nutritious, easy and tasty recipes to help you get started.
When performing the exercises, I have used bottles of water to exercise with but you can also use hand weights. For each exercise perform 1 set of 20 repetitions ? high repetitions are safer and provide good all round physiological benefits and better fat loss.
The time between exercises is entirely up to you but for best results try to keep it under 30 seconds. Changing the number of repetitions with the amount of weight will give varying results.
If you are a regular exerciser and want to make the workout harder then, simply USE the exercises but add more weight, more repetitions, or simply train more often, it?s entirely up to you.
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References:Cnattingius S, Bergstrom R, Lipworth L, Kramer MS. Pre pregnancy weight and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. N Engl J Med 1998;338:147?52
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