Connecting to your deep core is important throughout pregnancy and postpartum recovery. The deep core is made up of 4 muscles that help you to find stability and containment in the core. Learning to connect to these muscles may require a few visits with a pelvic health physiotherapist (highly recommended). This video will show you basic deep core breathing technique.
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Allow me to reintroduce myself! My name is Stephanie Sibbio. I am a fitness and nutrition expert dedicated to helping pregnant and postnatal women thrive in health and fitness. Here is how it all came to be :). Cliff Ravenscraft is a superstar in the world of podcasting and entrepreneurship. Also, on a personal note, he is an inspiration when
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Over the last decade of working in the fitness industry, there is one topic that comes up over and over and over again. The conversation about spot reduction. Spot reduction is this idea that in order to achieve fat loss in a certain area, you must tirelessly work that muscle out until the fat disappears off of the back of
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Finding out you’re pregnant can be overwhelming. Figuring out how to properly care for your body is of utmost importance, but there is so much information out there and it can be daunting. I’ve put together a basic list of exercise dos and don’ts for you to put your mind at ease! Do: Work on learning the deep core breath
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how few women know that they have an abdominal separation in their abdominal wall, and more so that they have never even heard that it exists! Abdominal separation is known as Diastasis Recti, and is a condition where your Rectus Abdominis (or 6 pack muscles) separate from the Linea Alba (or midline) to allow
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Bodyweight exercises are your key to getting fit with no gym membership! How many of you have paid a monthly membership to a fitness facility that you NEVER get around to visiting? Trust me, I have been that person before. The YMCA took so much of my money for me to go as often as I would go to the
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We have all heard of antioxidants, and we have all heard of free radicals. But, what are they and why are they important for us to understand? Antioxidants are a group of vitamins and minerals that we can obtain through the diet that help us to keep free radicals under control. What the hell is a free radical, you ask?
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My clients often ask me why I make them do deadlifts. The simplest answer that I can give them is that it teaches how to properly lift something off the floor without hurting your back, and it uses so many muscles that it takes a lot of calories to execute this movement, therefore whether you are looking for fat loss,
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