Postpartum Diastasis Recti Assessment #1
One of my goals in training my pregnant and postpartum clients is to make Diastasis Recti less scary. At the same time, I want you to be well educated and understand the workings of diastasis so we don’t aggravate issues and so we can heal the abdominals well...
Pregnancy Exercise “Badge of Honour”?
“I squatted and deadlifted heavy weights until my due date.” “I did burpees and box jumps well into my 3rd trimester.” “I ran a half-marathon at 34 weeks pregnant.” WHY? I’m not judging when I ask this question. I’m truly interested in why someone would...
5 Best Core Exercises for Post-Pregnancy
Postpartum core training needs to be done RIGHT to help heal the musculature and connective tissue which has been stretched and stressed through pregnancy, labor, and birth (vaginal or C-section). Unfortunately, many women jump into dangerous and damaging abdominal...
Should You Do Conditioning Workouts in Pregnancy?
Recently, someone tagged me in a post on Facebook to ask my opinion about a video where a woman who was quite visibly pregnant was performing burpees during her workout. She had set it up so that she was still doing a full burpee on the ground, but her belly...
Jessie Mundell is mama-in-chief at JessieMundell.com, where she’s helped hundreds of moms feel strong, confident, and EMPOWERED in their bodies with fitness programs tailored to their prenatal and postnatal needs.
