Want one like this? Keep Workin' It!
This is something I am asked A LOT. You want to heal a Diastasis Recti & to get a flatter stomach after having babies. And after some weeks of Mutu… you’re like, ‘So, I’m fixed now. My core WORKS! Cool! Can I stop?’
Um, no. Not if you want it to stay fixed! The process of learning to use your transverse abdominis & pelvic floor muscles properly takes you in those 12 weeks of MuTu System moves from a feeling that is completely strange for most people, to almost unconscious. Once it is nearly unconscious though, you still have to keep doing it! (Sorry).
In the first few weeks of MuTu, many of you forget how you ever even breathed previously without instruction 
Your pelvic floor becomes relevant to lifting your child. You’re doing 10 minutes of daily exercises which are waking muscles that have forgotten what to do & even the way you roll out of bed takes conscious thought. Huh? How’d that get so complicated?
The reason is, when you did that whole pregnancy & childbirth thing… your stomach muscles got a little less good at doing what they were supposed to do. They got all shifted about & stretched out & changed & then they just kind of sat there.
It happens to the best of us. And its why when you lose the baby weight, you don’t automatically get a flat tummy.
But the human body learns (remember, you couldn’t walk once…;)) & after a few weeks of daily MuTu Core exercises the weird feeling doesn’t feel so weird anymore. And you find that not only do you brace your abdominal muscles, holding them flat & strong whenever you lift or walk, but your posture is better too & any back pain you had before starts to subside.
This is your most important deep core muscle, your transverse abdominis, doing its job. Stabilizing you, supporting you & holding your body how it was designed to be held. You progress at your pace through MuTu Core Phases 1-4, finding the right muscles first, then just engaging them, then strengthening them.
You CAN stop doing the separate daily core exercises once you reach Phase 4 of MuTu Core. I.e. when you have achieved full core strength & stability. You won’t need them anymore! This is generally at around the 8-12 week mark or before, but sometimes you will need to keep going with daily Core a little longer – it all depends on your starting point !
But if you want that muscle to keep on holding your stomach in & doing its job, you have to keep on using it. Engaging this muscle during everything from walking to working out to sitting straight becomes more & more unconscious, as your body learns & remembers. It’s not a separate workout anymore , it’s just using your body right.
12 weeks is a sensible, productive period of time to see real changes in your body when you follow the MuTu guidelines & workouts. But that’s not to say that at week 12 you go right back where you started… if you followed the process (full details of MuTu System online training, here), you’re looking down at a darn sight stronger, flatter tummy than you started with. Don’t stop doing what works!
If you have questions about this, whether you are already following the program, or just thinking about it, please leave them below & I’ll get right back to you!
"I'm Wendy, pre & postpartum exercise specialist & flatten-er of mummy tummies! Also mum to a gorgeous little boy & to a feisty little girl who might just rule the world one day...
