Postnatal Fitness
Postnatal fitness is important in helping to return to your previous size and in getting back to feeling as you did before baby came along to keep you up all night. You want to go back to the bump you had prior to pregnancy and gain the strength and energy to care for the new family you have. Fitting exercise into a hectic baby schedule can seem impossible to new mums. There are some myths that have to be over come in order to get on the road to proper postnatal fitness.
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One of the biggest myths is that the pregnancy bump will magically vanish once you have delivered your baby. This is something all mums-to-be hope for but it is up to genetics for those that get rid of the bump quickly. Once the swelling of the bump is reduced there is still that little pooch of weight and skin with sagging muscles. There are workouts that can be done to help relieve you of this unpleasant after effect.
That the abs will never resemble flatness they once possessed again is another popular myth that follows pregnancy. Proper postnatal fitness can help to tighten even the most resistant muscles with the proper amount of effort and determination put into them. You can even end up with a better set of abs than you possessed prior to pregnancy if you are consistent with your efforts.
Despite belief, a nursing mum can workout unless there is some reason the doctor would tell them not to. Light to moderate physical activity is suggested for everyone though the nursing mum has to have sufficient calorie and fluid intake for the production of milk. Every 30 minutes of exercise will require 10 more ounces of non-caffeine fluids. Attention to detail has to be paid during postnatal fitness exercises to ensure that proper form and body alignment are being achieved. Consulting a fitness trainer can help you to ensure these are both being achieved.
When postnatal fitness training is focused on the chest and upper back muscle strength it will better enable you to correct the posture developed during pregnancy. The proper support must be given to the chest when exercises are performed as part of postnatal fitness. Even the feet will change after pregnancy.
You can have the body that you had prior to pregnancy once you get to the postnatal stages. Amazing results can be gotten with the proper postnatal fitness program. Unfortunately for the new mum cleaning up behind and chasing little children around the house in not enough to help you stay fit even if it does help you burn off a couple of calories, workouts that involve both strength training and cardiovascular exercise must be consistent to get the effects that you wish to achieve.
Time is difficult to find for the new mum but it is a must to get the workout into your day. Exercising and burning more calories than you take in are the only way to lose weight while achieving a higher level of postnatal fitness; you have to stop making excuses and make the time.
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