by Jessie Mundell | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Inevitably, whenever I tell someone that I specialize in coaching pregnancy and post-pregnancy fitness, their initial response is that I must, “help moms lose the baby weight.” And, a really interesting comment recently was, “Oh, so you have to keep...
by Jessie Mundell | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog
Today, I want to give you a rundown on 10 fast facts regarding diastasis recti, or abdominal muscle separation. In full disclosure, I use the term ‘facts’ loosely. In 2017. Ha. This all will continue to change, be researched further, and become much more...
by Jessie Mundell | Oct 5, 2016 | Blog
Coaching postnatal mama’s is NOT the same as coaching any other client in the gym. Or, it shouldn’t be the same. There are glaring differences and there are subtle differences. As a fitness professional you need to understand these in order to best...
by Jessie Mundell | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog
How Can We Assess Diastasis Rectus? These are really common things women say to me when they are trying to assess their Diastasis Rectus Abdominis (DRA). DRA is often referred to as an abdominal muscle separation, and while it IS technically a separation of the rectus...
by Jessie Mundell | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog
The reality is, a lot of us don’t know how, or haven’t been properly taught how to engage the pelvic floor, because we never talk about it. It’s a pretty important part of the body (remember how it holds our bits in the right places?) but we kinda...