American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 201, Issue 6 , Pages 590.e1-590.e6 , December 2009

Type of delivery is not affected by light resistance and toning exercise training during pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial

  • Ruben Barakat, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte–INEF, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Jonatan R. Ruiz, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biosciences and Nutrition at NOVUM, Unit for Preventive Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
    • ,
  • James R. Stirling, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte–INEF, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • María Zakynthinaki, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC-UAM-UC3M–UCM, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Alejandro Lucia, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Received 6 November 2008 ,Revised 5 December 2008 ,Accepted 1 June 2009.

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 This work was supported in part by the program I3 2006 and by the postdoctoral research program EX-2007-1124, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain.

 The first 2 authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript.

 Cite this article as: Barakat R, Ruiz JR, Stirling JR, et al. Type of delivery is not affected by light resistance and toning exercise training during pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2009;201:590.e1-6.

PII: S0002-9378(09)00624-3

doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2009.06.004

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 201, Issue 6 , Pages 590.e1-590.e6 , December 2009

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