Incorporating low level exercise into your daily routine will help to maintain a healthy BMI, reduce stress and anxiety, and help to improve sperm and egg health.
In this Blog, we look at how exercise can help to enhance and optimise fertility health in both men and women.
Should I Exercise Whist Trying To Conceive?
Keeping active is one of the best and most simple ways to enhance and optimise fertility health. Exercise can also help you achieve a healthy BMI, boost your mood, and reduce the risk of stress, anxiety, and depression. Light to moderate exercise is recommended as vigorous exercise can be detrimental for fertility health as it can reduce ovulation and sperm quality.
Can Exercise Enhance and Optimise Fertility Health?
Introducing light to moderate exercise into your daily routine will not only help to enhance and optimise fertility health, it will also help to prepare your body for a healthy pregnancy and reduce problems such as gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia.
The benefits of moderate exercise are:
- Helps to enhance and optimise fertility health.
- Boosts endorphins.
- Helps to improves egg and sperm quality.
- Helps to reduce and maintain a healthy BMI.
- Reduces stress and anxiety levels.
- Improves self-esteem and mind set.
- Prepares the body for a healthy pregnancy.
What Exercises Are Best To Enhance & Optimise Fertility Health?
Light to moderate forms is typically recommended for healthy men and women of all body types whilst trying to enhance and optimise fertility health. Some recommended forms of exercise are as follows:
- Walking is safe and is excellent for the cardiovascular system which is low impact and reduces stress.
- Cycling for just 30 minutes a few times a week is a great way to improve blood flow and burn calories.
- Yoga is a great way to limber up and help reduce stress and anxiety.
- Pilates is another really beneficial way to stay healthy and leave you feel relaxed.
- Swimming is one of the best ways to exercise the entire body in a gentle non stressful way.
Incorporating light to moderate exercise into your life will help to improve your mind set and allow you to relax and banish unhealthy habits.
Is It Safe To Exercise Whilst Trying To Conceive?
Light to moderate, regular exercise is safe, healthy, and helps to improves overall health in both men and women which can enhance and optimise fertility health. Research has shown that women who exercise regularly are more likely to conceive. Incorporating exercise into your daily life can help you achieve a healthy BMI which can also help with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and improve sperm quality.
