June 26th marked the first day of the training, in which we discussed a few key, but overlooked points, regarding training a pregnant client. We went over the questions to consider asking a potential pregnant client and the pertinent medical history to obtain from the client, which also helps to manage how to react to abnormal events that might occur during training.
ACOG, or American Council of Obstetrics and Gynecology recently published a paper outlining exercise considerations for the pregnant client in February ’09. We were able to discuss their suggestions and how that would relate to a training session or how we advise our clients.
When it came to the programming aspect of the training, the main focus was in managing how the client felt about the workout overall. We always want to keep the client in a “moderate” exertion level or below, so determining how best to find that level was interesting.
Overall, I learned a lot and found reassurance in what I am currently doing with my own prenatal client, as well as garnered some additional ideas and concepts to keep her safe, strong and happy in the gym as well as help her recover following the birth.
I would like to thank Annette Lang for her stellar instruction. It was a pleasure to have met and leaned from you.
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