PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN WOMEN DURING PREGNANCY: A REVIEW

Abstract

Nowadays, pregnant women are being encouraged to offset sedentarism with some type of physical activity, with the adoption of a healthy lifestyle. It should be observed during the prenatal an indicator of life quality on the physical and emotional aspects of women who participate in any program that encourages development of physical activities. Therefore, it is important that during pregnancy a woman involved in programs of physical activity in a viw of each trimester with its peculiarities, for the proper development of these activities, targeting the welfare of pregnant and the fetus. These programmes must be based on common sense, flexibility and individuality of each pregnant, with trends to the body changes in a positive way, the basic element for a healthy pregnancy, a well-succeeded delivery and a successful healthy newborn. This is a study of integrative literature review, taking up the LILACS database to the findings of the last 10 years, using keywords such as: “physical activity” and “pregnancy”. The objective was to identify the literature types of physical activities that can be taken by pregnant women without risk conditions. As a result, the findings showed that light activities such as swimming, hydrogymnastics, stretching, yoga and ergometric walking are the most recommended during pregnancy for the benefits as relaxation, better vascular conditioning, decrease muscle tension and movement activation, liberation movements and body awareness increase. Help in deep breathing and saves energy at the time of birth. It was concluded that pregnant women can have a well-coordinated programming for each trimester during pregnancy, bringing benefits for both their health and for the fetus, indicating, therefore, the importance of physical activity during pregnancy, in a view that it performed on a moderate, controlled and coordinated way produces health beneficial effects to the mother/fetus binomia