Professional Exercise Recommendations for Healthy Women Who Are Pregnant: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Background: Exercise in pregnancy favorably affects maternal and fetal outcomes, yet only 50% of women receive exercise guidance during prenatal care and 15% are told to stop exercising. Reasons for clinician reluctance to recommend exercise include safety concerns and ambiguity of recommendations. To better inform clinicians, this systematic review assembled a consensus exercise prescription (ExRx) for healthy pregnant women framed by the Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type (FITT) principle. Methods: In April 2021, PubMed, Scopus, SPORTDiscus, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), and Cochrane databases were searched. Reports were eligible if: (1) targeted healthy pregnant women, (2) framed the ExRx by the FITT, and (3) published b

SUBMITTER: Rudin LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524738 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature