Aquatic Exercise for Pregnancy

133 Pages·2010·2.87 MB·English

by  Susan Baines

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Aquatic Exercise for Pregnancy
a resource book for midwives and health and fitness professionals
Susan Baines and Susie Murphy
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Aquatic Exercise for Pregnancy
Susan Baines, Susie Murphy
ISBN: 978-1-905539-42-0
First published 2010
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Contents
List of figures vi
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction ix
Part 1 Aquanatal exercise
Chapter 1 Water generally – aquanatal specifically 3
Chapter 2 The anatomy of movement 11
Chapter 3 Pool safety – risk assessment and management 17
Chapter 4 Getting the best out of your classes 23
Chapter 5 Aquanatal choreography 31
Chapter 6 Practical tips for more fun and interesting classes 41
Chapter 7 Contra-indicated aquanatal exercises 45
Chapter 8 The pelvic floor and aquanatal exercise 47
Part 2 Aquanatal exercise – the wider context
Chapter 9 Ethical considerations 57
Chapter 10 Public health, physical activity and aquanatal exercise 63
Chapter 11 Aquanatal exercise and parent education 71
Chapter 12 Nutrition during pregnancy and for physical exercise 77
Chapter 13 The law and aquanatal exercise 83
Chapter 14 Voice care for the aquanatal exercise coach 87
Chapter 15 Marketing within the NHS 91
Part 3 Developing your practice
Useful sources of information and contacts 101
Appendices
1 Main muscles of the body that you need to know 105
2 Aquanatal exercise participant screening form 106
3 Client information sheet 107
4 Sample risk assessment pro-forma 108
5 Blank session plan – aims of whole session 109
6 An example of a legal case study 110
7 Continuing professional development – observation of a pregnancy aquatic session 111
8 Aquanatal session plans 114
Index 121
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List of figures
Chapter 1 Figure 1.1 Oscillating water molecule 4
Figure 1.2 Diagram of hand positions (cup/scoop, slice, punch, lift, push away) 6
Chapter 2 Figure 2.1 The anatomical position (anterior aspect) 11
Figure 2.2 Body planes 12
Figure 2.3 ‘Q’ pump exercise 13
Figure 2.4 Biceps curl 15
Figure 2.5 Extension of elbow 15
Chapter 4 Figure 4.1 Coach in warm up mode 24
Figure 4.2 ‘Sea horse’ woggle position 26
Figure 4.3 Group circle relaxation 27
Figure 4.4 Professional coach 28
Chapter 5 Figure 5.1 ‘Cutting a diamond’ 33
Figure 5.2 Sweeping arms 34
Figure 5.3 Hip circles 34
Chapter 6 Figure 6.1 ‘The waiter’ 42
Chapter 8 Figure 8.1 Side view of pelvic anatomy 47
Chapter 11 Figure 11.1 Upright birthing position 74
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Acknowledgements
We would like to express our love and gratitude to Michael and Peter, our long-suffering but patient
husbands, for their care of us and their support whilst we wrote this book.
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Introduction
This book is the culmination of over a decade’s worth of interest in aquanatal exercise.
Our journey into all things aquatic has had its fair share of ups and downs since we embarked upon it in the
summer of 1997. I, for my part, had been managing a maternity and women’s health project in Bolton,
Lancashire and was looking at possible strategies to support maternal and fetal health during the antenatal
period and Susie was simply doing what Susie does best, with her unquenchable enthusiasm for a new
challenge!
We met, qualified as professional registrants of the now defunct UK Fitness Register and the rest, as they
say, is history. But from the very beginning we said that one day we would write a book, one designed to
be used and not just added to one’s book shelf, in need of occasional dusting and only to be opened in
times of specific need. We wanted to compile a living book, which would get bent at the edges from being
stuffed into a gym bag, get defaced (from all the notes scribbled on its pages) and like a faithful old dog, get
rather wet at times from being too close to the water. Our book is for using. It is for offering help and
support to our caring and compassionate midwifery colleagues throughout the UK and across the world,
who like us share a passion for facilitating aquanatal exercise.
We are both now specialist Level 3 coaches for the Register of Exercise Professionals (UK), have won a
Vice Chancellor’s research award at the University of Salford, have developed the UK’s first academically
underpinned level 3 Pregnancy Aquatics, Nutrition and Health module at the University of Salford and have
had the opportunity to travel to Australia to spread the word about pregnancy aquatic exercise.
We still live, breathe and sleep aquanatal and are so convinced of the wonderful health benefits of this activity
for mothers that we feel like shouting from the rooftops! Surely, if its benefits could be bottled, then we feel
women would be tipsy with health.
It is perhaps strange to some, but certainly not to Susie and me, that those midwives who like us become
interested in aquanatal exercise, also become passionate about it…
We hope you enjoy “your” book!
Love to you all
Sue and Susie 2010
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