--- title: Pregnant Women Should Still Exercise, Doctors Say description: Running, jogging, Pilates and yoga are all fine canonical: https://time.com/4125596/pregnant-women-exercise/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-24T14:24:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:52:31.726Z article:section: Health og:title: Pregnant Women Should Still Exercise, Doctors Say og:description: Running, jogging, Pilates and yoga are all fine og:url: https://time.com/4125596/pregnant-women-exercise/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pregnant Women Should Still Exercise, Doctors Say twitter:description: Running, jogging, Pilates and yoga are all fine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Pregnant Women Should Still Exercise, Doctors Say by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 24, 2015 2:24 PM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 24, 2015 2:24 PM UTC Women worried that pregnancy is a time to sit still and be careful don’t need to worry, specialist doctors said Monday. In fact, they said, pregnant women need to get up and exercise. Running, jogging, Pilates and yoga are all fine, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) said in a note to doctors. And a woman’s gynecologist or obstetrician needs to encourage her to exercise, because too many U.S. women are obese, the group said. “Maintaining a healthy weight is important to overall health at all times, but it becomes a vital sign when a woman is pregnant… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/get-some-exercise-doctors-tell-pregnant-women-n468551?cid=par-time%5F20151124) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4125596/pregnant-women-exercise/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4125596/pregnant-women-exercise/"},"headline":"Pregnant Women Should Still Exercise, Doctors Say","datePublished":"2015-11-24T14:24:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:52:31.726Z","description":"Running, jogging, Pilates and yoga are all fine","url":"https://time.com/4125596/pregnant-women-exercise/","keywords":["Research"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/research/","name":"Research"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4125596/pregnant-women-exercise/","name":"Pregnant Women Should Still Exercise, Doctors Say"}}]}] ```