Both the excess of sport and/or the lack of it can influence fertility. The recommendation is to exercise regularly and with moderate intensity, accompanied by a balanced diet. Sport and fertility come together, as sport provides the indispensable ingredients: it reduces the levels of stress, provides energy, helps control weight and maintain an active body.
A sedentary life is not a good ally of fertility, as it can originate obesity, the faithful enemy of fertilization in women. What’s more, carrying out sport and not carrying out a sedentary life con considerably improve the man’s sperm quality.
It is also not recommended to go from a no exercise to extreme sport in a short period of time with the aim of losing weight as soon as possible; this can affect the persons reproductive capacity.
Sport and Fertility; What are the consequences of excessive sport?
When it comes to women, to carry out too much or too little exercise can cause hormonal imbalances which alter ovulation. In high performance athletes there can be cases of:- In more serious cases, there is a lack of menstrual cycle and no pregnancy due to lack of ovulation.
- Luteal insufficiency: Many women athletes maintain their menstrual cycle and their ovulatory capacity but they present a decrease in the production of progesterone during the second phase of the menstrual cycle. The importance of this lies in that fertility can find itself compromised by that progesterone deficiency – this is the hormone responsible for a good embryo implantation. For this reason, we can find women athletes with implantation failures and premature miscarriages.
