FEMALE athletes who keep training throughout pregnancy are setting up their child for a healthy future. Indeed, Kevin Pearson, associate professor at the University of Kentucky department of pharmacology and nutritional sciences, showed that exercising during pregnancy is as effective in protecting the next generation from age-related health risks as efforts made during the child’s own adulthood.
Keep on running: training in pregnancy can prepare babies for a long life
Announcing findings at the American Physiological Society’s integrative biology of exercise annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Pearson said women should be encouraged to keep training for as long as they can.
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