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New UK physical activity guidelines for you

10/07/202111/09/2019 by Cerin

The UK government released new Physical Activity Guidelines the other week. In my last blog post (“Why do it“) I gave you a summary of the benefits of exercise and activity. In this post I will give you a summary of what the guidelines suggest for all the different age ranges and populations. So lets … Read more

Unsafe to exercise while pregnant?

31/05/2016 by Cerin

I don’t have formal training when it comes to training pregnant women, so it’s up to you if you want to pay any attention at all to anything I have to say. But I have written a little bit about training while pregnant before, when I researched it for my friend who was pregnant (click … Read more

Should women do this particular exercise?

16/07/2015 by Cerin

First of all, a quick disclaimer: I am not a woman. I never have, nor never will be pregnant. I am NOT any kind of expert in training pregnant people. So feel free to ignore anything I am about to write. But I would prefer it if you thought about it critically and let me … Read more

Supervised Weight Training Safe for Pregnant Women

06/04/2011 by Cerin

Pregnant Weight Training A while ago I wrote some posts about exercise during pregnancy (click here, here, here and here). So here is a little bit extra on the subject. I want to direct you to a new bit of research done to test the safety of resistance training for pregnant women (click here for … Read more

NICE guidelines for managing your weight before/during/after pregnancy.

29/07/2010 by Cerin

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have released weight management guidelines for women before/during/after pregnancy. You can take a look by clicking here. I’m the first to admit I am no expert in this department, so if you are, let me know where I’m going wrong. But the guidelines are 60 pages long, so here are some of the bits that caught my eye, and my personal comments in brackets…

Exercise during pregnancy: Update

05/03/2010 by Cerin

After yesterdays post about exercise during pregnancy, there was a question about what specific reps and sets of resistance should be done. So here goes…

Exercise during pregnancy.

04/03/2010 by Cerin

A good friend of mine just got herself pregnant again (congratulations Sarah!). So I thought I would quickly go over some recommendations for her and others in her predicament 😉