"Active moms are going to have more active infants!"
Pregnancy is an imprinting experience for the moms, infants and families. Since every action may influence the fetus' health, knowledge about how to act during pregnancy is crucial. But also for minimising the risk for complications during and after pregnancy, exercise plays a critical role.
- What exercises are recommended?
- What are contraindications?
- What about high-intensity training? AND
- How can you individualise training?
These are just a few questions that I asked my guest Stephanie Paplinskie. Steph is about to finish her PhD about "The impact of exercise in the postpartum period" at the University of Western, Canada. But she is so much more than a PhD candidate. Starting as an Aquafit instructor, she started her own buisness to "enpower women to live the most active/healthy pregnancies they can." Steph is an expert in the field, is doing workouts herself every day, teaches at several universities and is about to start her own podcast. She's simply unstoppable! 💥
This episode is dedicated to everyone: moms, dads, coaches, scientists and more! Steph told me so many details about pregnancy that are relevant for the general population. A perfect example for applied science translation!
Steph's socials:
Instagram
strongHer fitness
ResearchGate
Website
My socials:
Instagram
YouTube
ResearchGate
References
Forner et al. (2021) Int Urogynecol J
Mattola et al. (2019) Br J Sports Med
Paplinskie (2013) Masters thesis
Ribeiro et al. (2022) J Perinat Med
Tsakiridis et al. (2020) J Perinat Med
Wowdzia et al. (2023) Sports Med
Chapters
0:00:00 Teaser
0:00:31 Intro
0:03:07 Speed Meet
0:06:23 prenatal vs. postpartum
0:12:11 Steph's background
0:20:58 strongHer fitness
0:30:20 Knowledge translation
0:32:32 Recommendations
0:44:20 Contraindications
0:50:07 Individualisation
0:58:00 My mom's pregnancy
0:59:46 Ceasarean vs. vaginal devilery
1:08:13 What about the Crossfit girls?
1:13:23 High-intensity training (HIT)
1:22:26 Steph's PhD research
1:29:54 Steph's future
1:35:31 Outro
