Impacts of physical exercises during the gestational period

Karine Freitas de Oliveira¹

Katerine Aparecida de Sena²

Sabrina Ferreira de Souza³

Anderson Martelli⁴

Lucas Risseti Delbim⁵

Marcelo Studart Hunger⁶

Abstract

Physical Exercise (PE) is characterized as all organized, planned, and repetitive physical activity, whose objective is to

improve the health and capacity of the human being to perform daily activities. Currently, many doctors recommend PE

because it can contribute positively to pregnant women, with a small number of cases in which professionals prevent

healthy pregnant women, who are already practicing, from continuing with the exercises. Many pregnant women are

contraindicated to the practice when they have some associated pathology that may pose risks to pregnancy. Thus, this

article aimed to describe the impacts of submaximal PE practice for women in the gestational period. A survey of articles

published between the years 2003 to 2022 was carried out on the mentioned theme, punctuating the main physiological

aspects altered by the inclusion of a more physically active routine during the gestational period. With this review, the

benefi ts arising from controlled submaximal exercises for the gestational routine and the postpartum period with scienti-

fically proven efficacies were observed. The evidence positively corroborated the impacts of practicing physical exercise

during the gestational period with the supervision of a trained professional and medical guidance.

Keywords: Physical Exercise; Gestational Period; Health in Pregnancy.