A pregnant athlete is a woman who regularly engaged in vigorous-intensity aerobic activity or regular physical activity before becoming pregnant and continues to exercise during pregnancy and after delivery.
The benefits of exercise during pregnancy greatly outweigh the risks. As many as 88% of women report exercising while pregnant and experts recommend it. In addition to improving overall fitness.
Is there a woman who has ever participated in athletes while pregnant?
Well one Alysia Montanon is not your ordinary woman as she participated in 800m while 8 and 5 months pregnant, stunning the world.
Alysia Montaño is an American middle distance runner. She is a six-time USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships 800 metres champion. She gained significant publicity for the 2014 race that she competed while 8 months pregnant.
Her 2014 decision to run the 800-meter while eight months pregnant was met with much scrutiny, the New York Times reported.
Amazingly, this is not the only time the American athlete has competed while pregnant – having done so also in 2017.
After the event, Montana amazingly still had the energy to chase her two-year-old daughter around the track.
Montano looked thrilled during the competition, soaking up every second of the occasion in California.
Wearing a customized Wonder Woman top and the trademark flower in her hair, Montano finished in 2 minutes, 21.40 seconds to eclipse her previous-best pregnancy time by nearly 11 seconds
Of course, she was eight months pregnant when she attempted the endeavor in 2014 at the same track.
