If you're wanting a strong, comfortable and pain-free pregnancy, I suggest focusing on these 5 things throughout all 3 trimesters.
Let's get into it:
✔️ Build strength & endurance: labor and birth is an athletic event! You wouldn’t just show up to marathon without training for it, would you? No! It's best we prep for it.
✔️ Strengthen back & postural muscles: we REALLY need to focus on having good posture as our bodies change and our center of gravity shifts. Strengthening exercises and practicing neutral alignment will minimize common pregnancy aches and pains such as low back pain, pelvic pain, etc.
✔️ Strengthen glutes, inner thighs & hamstrings: these muscle groups help stabilize the pelvis, support the pelvic floor and ultimately reduce back and hip pain.
✔️ Unilateral work: training one side at a time addresses any imbalances you might have, while also improving core stability and coordination!
✔️ Proper breathing, core + pelvic floor exercises: it is SO important to master proper breathing with core + pelvic floor activation in coordination with movement! This allows you to manage intra abdominal pressure and ultimately reducing the extent of Diastasis Recti. Mastering this will also set you up for a strong delivery & smoother recovery.
*NOTE: these are important things to focus on, but I should also add that REST and staying in tune with your body is just as important during pregnancy!*
I design my pregnancy workouts to be safe, effective and BENEFICIAL so you can feel strong and confident throughout each stage of pregnancy! My MOVE WELL BUMP & BODY guide focuses on ALL of these throughout all 3 trimesters.