The use of exercise as part of the continuum of treatment
in patients with diabetic related disorders is accepted
and widely encouraged[1]. One increasingly prevalent
metabolic disorder is gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
Although exercise prescription as treatment in this
population group may be encouraged, a general exercise
prescription guideline is lacking. Therefore the purpose of
this review is to assess the efficacy of exercises currently
being prescribed for the management of GDM in order
to establish an exercise prescription guideline specific to
GDM. of GDM in African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics
and Orientals than in non-white Hispanic women[7-9]. In
Australia, the prevalence of GDM was found to be higher
in Aboriginal Australians as well as women who were
born in Asia and India[