Do Pilates during pregnancy: support your body and your baby!
Pilates has conquered the world in recent years. There must be a reason for such success: many of the varied exercises can have a positive effect on well-being during pregnancy. Pilates helps, among other things, to combat everyday stress symptoms such as back pain. Pilates training during pregnancy is gentler than usual - you still move and mobilize your whole body while at the same time promoting your cognitive abilities.
The Pilates relaxation exercises not only help you, but also your baby, with which you can relieve tension and thus improve your general well-being. In our Pilates course in Zurich we would like to offer you the appropriate private session or group training.
Benefits of Pilates for Pregnant Women
The growing child brings a lot of joy, but especially demands a lot from the expectant mother with her changing body. For example, the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles are put under a lot of strain until birth. The growing and increasingly heavy stomach naturally also affects your entire posture. Pilates offers many benefits for these and similar discomforts:
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Targeted breathing and relaxation techniques contribute to an increased feeling of well-being. Pilates during pregnancy aims at conscious relaxation of the body and is dedicated to the efficiency of breathing. Targeted Pilates exercise brings benefits for your physical and mental well-being.
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We consciously strengthen the upper body while working out with Pilates during pregnancy in order to optimally prepare it for carrying and breastfeeding the child.
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The active-dynamic exercises for the pelvic floor will give you a better understanding of it. Such exercises include, among other things, consciously contracting your pelvic floor, holding it and relaxing it again.
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In general, Pilates fosters body perception. At the same time, attention is, of course, paid to the correct execution of the corresponding movement sequences. These points alone help with many problems, for example in the stomach and back that often stem from pregnancy.
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The physical changes and the associated stress often also affect the posture of the pregnant woman. Pilates offers a range of mobilization, stretching and strengthening exercises that can ideally counteract these issues.
What should you pay attention to when doing Pilates during pregnancy?
Pilates during pregnancy is a very gentle workout: slow movements, conscious breathing, controlled strength training, stretching. As a pregnant woman, you should not start Pilates without guidance. Because there are Pilates exercises that you should avoid during pregnancy.
For example, strength exercises that affect the abdominal muscles lead to the shortening of the abdominal wall - very disadvantageous with a constantly growing stomach. As pregnancy progresses, Pilates can become very uncomfortable for the pregnant woman if it is performed on the back, stomach or side. Be sure to listen to your own body feeling!
Prenatal Pilates for Pregnant Women in Zurich: Exclusive Small Group Classes
Our exclusive Prenatal Pilates classes for pregnant women in Zurich offer expectant mothers an ideal way to stay fit and relaxed throughout pregnancy. This course is specifically tailored to meet your body's needs during pregnancy and is conducted as a mat-based class in small groups to ensure personalized attention.
We recommend starting our Prenatal Pilates from the 16th week of pregnancy. However, you are welcome to join earlier or later if you prefer. From the 16th week onward, though, we advise avoiding regular classes and switching to our Prenatal Pilates for the best benefits for you and your baby.
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Thursday, 5:45 PM - 6:40 PM
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Saturday, 12:45 PM - 1:40 PM
Prenatal Pilates classes are in English.
Do Pilates in the city of Zurich during pregnancy: book a private session!
Precisely because of the situations just described, it is ideal to be guided in Pilates during pregnancy. We work with passion as Pilates personal instructors in the city of Zurich and can concentrate particularly well on you and your baby in private sessions. While you keep fit with your ever-growing belly, your child also benefits from sport: the peace and well-being that you derive from your increased body perception is passed on to your little one.
In our Pilates studio in Zurich, we offer private sessions with gentle guidance and fully concentrating on your needs and those of your child. We pay close attention to your wishes, needs, emotions, and physical condition in order to provide appropriate, safe, and effective training that is enjoyable. We look forward to hearing from you!
After birth, you dedicate yourself entirely to your child. At some point you will definitely want to do something for yourself again. Six to twelve weeks after birth, Pilates can be used for recovery. With this workout we strengthen your body and ensure peace and well-being in the sometimes hectic everyday life of a mother. Whether group course or Pilates private sessions, whether online or directly in the studio in Zurich’s District 5 - your Pilates Stube is always there for you!