How to lose your pregnancy weight & flatten your tummy | weight loss post pregnancy | postnatal exercises and postpartum exercises
Home Exercise Equipment Guide No. 3: Gym Ball Gym Ball, Balance Ball, Stability Ball, Fit Ball, Swiss Ball, Pilates Ball, even Birthing Ball... they all mean the same thing - a big bouncy ball with a thousand uses to help flatten your mummy tummy! You may have one already, quite possibly un-used & un-loved, bought on a whim to 'use in labour' or 'to do tummy exercises, but I'm not quite … [Read more...]
Home Exercise Equipment Guide No.2: The Intervals Timer This little device transformed my personal workouts because it means you don't have to watch the clock while fitting in a really effective interval training or Metabolic Resistance Training workout. Don't worry about the buzz words - I've got that bit covered for you - it means exercising to lose fat whilst building lean muscle - ie SHAPE … [Read more...]
MuTu® System is all about exercise that works around your life, not the other way around: no gym membership, creche, machines, classes or choreography necessary! All MuTu® System workouts last around 15 minutes (some are even less) & importantly, you don't need any equipment to work out effectively, when you're doing it the MuTu way! But home exercise equipment can add variety, intensity … [Read more...]
Now I don't think I was alone in feeling slightly inspired by Beyonce & her dancers' incredible butt cracking, thigh snapping, booty jiggling moves at Glastonbury last night. Never mind the guys, my Twitter stream (overwhelmingly female & moms) couldn't get enough of the woman. Fabulous singing, but OH my life, that BUTT! So, feeling seriously inferior in the bootylicious department, I … [Read more...]
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Weight loss post-pregnancy (& this post applies to quite a long time post pregnancy please - this is high impact & slightly mad!) needs a little ridiculous-ness sometimes... a bit of fun, some serious heart-rate-raising & a challenge. Please note: these exercises are NOT suitable for before 20 weeks postpartum / postnatal exercise! Jeez woman, everything'll fall out... :0 OK, … [Read more...]
Lose baby weight with A What Workout? Tabata. Named after a Japanese scientist called... you guessed it, Dr. Tabata. A Tabata workout is a 4 minute, high intensity, fat burning, interval training workout. That's FOUR minutes. Now do I have your attention Busy Mamas? I've said a thousand time before that if you want to lose baby weight fast then interval training at higher intensities is more … [Read more...]
Pregnancy & postnatal exercise video below! Pregnancy & postnatal exercise needs to be low impact (read more about why early postnatal exercise needs to be low impact here) But it can be hard to think of low impact cardio ideas sometimes - IE how to get your heart rate up, warm up & add an aerobic element to your interval training (another video of that for you here... but that one has … [Read more...]
Postnatal exercises for your abdominal muscles need to focus on using & strengthening your deep core muscles, as well as your pelvic floor, & not just the 'six pack muscle' at the front. You need to avoid sit ups & crunches as well as certain Pilates moves which will make a diastasis recti or abdominal separation worse. The postnatal exercises for your abs you SHOULD BE DOING … [Read more...]
Postnatal exercises don't have to mean long workouts or gym memberships! Lose your baby weight with this interval training workout that will drop pounds & build lean muscle... & you can do it in your garden! I did. You don't need any equipment, you don't need to go anywhere, & your kids can join in... Have fun! I hope it helps to make a little more sense of what you're supposed … [Read more...]