Prenatal + Pregnancy Workouts

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April | Womens Fitness Coach | Sustainable Weight Loss

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3 Day Workout Split

Pelvic Floor Exercises Pregnancy

Pregnancy Core Workout

3 Day Workout

Exercise Abdomen

Exercise For Pregnant Women

Pregnancy Safe Workouts

Exercise During Pregnancy

Pregnancy Workouts

Pregnancy Safe Workouts

You CAN and SHOULD continue to train your core during pregnancy. There’s a few modifications and exercise substitutions you can make but continuing to train your entire deep core throughout your entire pregnancy is incredibly beneficial! I recommend you stop doing exercises that put tension on your linea alba (this is the muscle that runs vertical down the midline of your abdomen; think of exercises like planks) & instead, prioritize exercises that teach you to properly connect your breath to your core muscles + pelvic floor! Here are just a couple examples 👆🏼 Not only will this help with core strength throughout pregnancy, but also labor too! Do these exercises slow and controlled so you can really focus on that mind-muscle connection, muscle engagement and your breathing!

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Full Body Pregnancy Workout

Workouts Flat Stomach

Full Body Pregnancy Workout

For more prenatal and pregnancy safe workouts designed for each trimester ⤵️

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Safe Core

Arm Toning Exercises

Gym Supplements

Pregnancy Safe Core Exercises

Pregnancy safe core exercises during the third trimester (but honestly you can do these anytime!) Some quick form check tips: ✔️ avoid holding your breath; inhale during the easier part of the movement, exhale on the exertion ✔️ watch for any bulging or coning in the abdomen during exercise, especially core-focused movements. Modify the exercise or find an alternnative if needed. ✔️ always try to engage your deep core at the start of each rep

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Prepping For Pregnancy

Hip Opening Stretches

Pregnancy Stretches

Pregnancy Pilates

Hip Mobility Exercises

Birth Prep

Weeks Of Pregnancy

Prenatal Workout

Hip & Pelvic Mobility | Birth Prep Exercises

Hip opening stretches and releasing tension in your pelvic floor is an amazing thing to focus on and prioritize especially during the final weeks of pregnancy to help your body prep for birth. 🤰🏼 There’s no one single stretch that’s necessarily better than the other; rather, focus on a variety of stretches including those that are wide knee positions, open and closed hip shifted movements, and internal and external pelvic rotations.

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Before Getting Pregnant

Diaphragmatic Breathing

If there’s one thing to prioritize during pregnancy, let it be this 🤰🏼💪🏼

Establishing a good connection between proper breathing patters and your pelvic floor are super important not only during pregnancy and postpartum but this can be beneficial even before getting pregnant. This exercise is a combination of performing a kegel while simultaneously incorporating diaphragmatic breathing (think deep and full 360° breathing with the expansion of your entire core) in efforts to help connect our core and pelvic floor. Here are some cues to help: ➡️On the inhale: imagine inflating your entire pelvic floor and core with air, driving your sitz bones apart with air. ➡️Deeply exhale, and contract your PF muscles (you should feel them drawing upward toward your head).

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Mobility Drills

Exercise Cardio

Nutrition Guidelines

Pelvic Floor Exercises

Floor Exercises

Women's Fitness Motivation

Working Out During Pregnancy: Myths & Truths

My Train Like A Mother pregnancy workout program is ON SALE TODAY through Sunday, May 12th! Save 50% off my eBook with code “mothersday” at checkout. Here’s what’s included: 🩷 35+ weeks of pregnancy safe workouts for each trimester 🩷 Video demos linked for each exercise 🩷 Cardio recommendations and sample workouts 🩷 Nutrition guidelines for each trimester 🩷 Pelvic floor exercises, warm up and mobility drills 🩷 & more!

Some common misconceptions (and truths) about exercising and strength training during pregnancy

For pregnancy safe workouts, check out my #TrainLikeAMother workout program 💪🏼

Here's what's included:
🤍35+ weeks of pregnancy safe workouts for each trimester
🤍Video demos linked for each exercise
🤍Cardio recommendations and sample workouts
🤍Nutrition guidelines for each trimester
🤍Pelvic floor exercises, warm up and mobility drills & more!

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Pregnancy Workout Programs 💪🏼🤰🏼

Some common misconceptions (and truths) about exercising and strength training during pregnancy For pregnancy safe workouts, check out my #TrainLikeAMother workout program 💪🏼 Here's what's included: 🤍35+ weeks of pregnancy safe workouts for each trimester 🤍Video demos linked for each exercise 🤍Cardio recommendations and sample workouts 🤍Nutrition guidelines for each trimester 🤍Pelvic floor exercises, warm up and mobility drills & more!