The complete guide to pregnancy and fitness - Morc Coulson

The Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Fitness is an invaluable reference manual for anyone involved in prescribing exercise programmes for pregnant women. Packed with practical tips on designing activity programmes, as well as how to apply the correct techniques to over 40 exercises, aided by full colour photos.This is an up-to-date practical guide to the underpinning theory and includes comprehensive recommended reading for each chapter. Learn about the physiological changes during pregnancy and how this affects exercise programmes, including contra-indications to be considered when working with pregnant clients. Also covered are the required legal and insurance elements.

Morc Coulson is senior lecturer and the programme leader of Sport and
Exercise Science at the University of Sunderland. He is the author of The
Advanced Fitness Instructors Handbook (2008) and Practical Fitness
Testing (2009).