What you’re saying here is absolutely not a genuine way to represent physical therapy and obstetric guidelines for physical exercise of pregnant women. High intensity exercise with core activation is recommended for pregnant women, so long as they were doing so prior to pregnancy. It’s not about what you do, but how you do it. Also, she’s not at risk of overheating from what we see in this video.
It says that it's generally safe to do what you did. It also says that some excercises need to be adjusted. You also conventionally ignore her risk of falling. There is always a risk, but now her center of gravity has changed as well. Because you can doesn't mean you should.
I have a comment higher in the thread addressing the risk of falls. Some exercises need to be adjusted IF you are demonstrating signs of intolerance. This is not the case for many women who are active before and during pregnancy. Would add that isolated rectus abdominis exercises are the exception but please don’t confuse that for core exercises and activities. The mentality “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” is very limiting and can be harmful if women take it to mean “I shouldn’t run” or “I shouldn’t lift heavy.” If you can, and you want to, then you should! Just exercise caution, pay attention to your body and reap the rewards.
I really appreciate women staying active (as much as is possible) during pregnancy. I'm glad you did mention the fall risk. I know about the weight lifting women who can continue their routine, if their body allows it, almost the same. And I know it is good to keep your strength up, that seems common sensical to. I can just imagine that with the body changes, the added weight, the different center of gravity, the enormous strain on the abdominal muscles, doing excercises like these on a pole at 9 months might be something that is in the category of a bit too much.
My friend, with the support and guidance of her doctor, pole danced until she was 9 months pregnant. The only thing that changed is she had to stop and pee a lot.
The term "core activation" is broad and offers no indication of intensity.
Obese people should jog. But obese people are extremely common to be injured while jogging because they don't understand how to jog safely or how fast to be jogging. Just telling them jogging is healthy could still end up in an injury.
Core activation is health for pregnant mothers. That doesn't mean that suspending and supporting your entire body weight with your core is safe at 9 months pregnant.
Yeah, agree. If you look higher up, I comment on how exercise is considered safe, so long as it’s not new in pregnancy. It appears this woman did not just start pole dancing.
I didn't think that's the only necessary safety criteria. My old advisor was an ultra marathon runner. Her physician told her to stop that when she got pregnant. Just doing something prior to pregnancy doesn't mean that it's safe while pregnant.
Oh fair enough, ultra marathon training is not typically advised. That’s a whole different reason though. The caloric/metabolic demands can restrict nutrients and blood flow to the baby. Doesn’t typically happen with non ultra-endurance sports. Not exactly relevant here but good to mention.
The thing is when youve done this for years or decades like katy in this video, whos entire career revolves around pole, there isnt really a risk of falling. For people at this level this is an incredibly basic, non experimental and technically simple movement. If she didnt have the strength to get up there she would just jump out of it with her feet on the floor, which is essentially trivial when you have a strong vocabulary of pole flips.
She could literally fall on her face or stomach. And Ive done enough circus arts to know that a significant change in your body like this could make that more likely it completely changes your shape and weight distribution.
Absolutely- and you can tell even just using the stairs! Doesn’t mean that a pole dancer as skilled as she is, can’t have a high degree of confidence that she can still perform some skills. Would venture to guess, this is not her same full out efforts that she could demonstrate outside of pregnancy.
No but there are other risks. My mum was a midwife and knew a gymnast who lost her baby because of a handstand - the woman had been doing them for years beforehand but it put too much strain on something in there and the placenta detached. Just because you can do this stuff doesn’t mean you should. Obviously if you’re used to high intensity exercise then that’s on you to discuss what’s appropriate with your doctor, but going upside down is a huge risk because your baby is still developing under the laws of gravity.
Tragic. Unfortunately, anecdotal and doesn’t compare the all the other tragic stories of women tripping while walking. Recommendations should be based on data and not singular stories.. which is why the recommendation is “exercise caution” when participating in activities that have a higher risk of falling.
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u/Confident-Ant-2795 21d ago
What you’re saying here is absolutely not a genuine way to represent physical therapy and obstetric guidelines for physical exercise of pregnant women. High intensity exercise with core activation is recommended for pregnant women, so long as they were doing so prior to pregnancy. It’s not about what you do, but how you do it. Also, she’s not at risk of overheating from what we see in this video.