Exercise After Pregnancy

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In Exercise After Pregnancy, Helene Byrne offers new mothers a comprehensive guide to reconditioning their bodies after pregnancy. Learn this safe, easy-to-follow and amazingly effective three-step program that systematically rebuilds all four layers of the abdominal wall and prepares new mothers for the almost nonstop physical demands of motherhood.

Helene’s unique postnatal core system, which integrates the body-mind methods of Pilates and yoga with cutting-edge fitness concepts, can be started just days after giving birth, requires no specialized exercise equipment, and is suitable for all fitness levels. Thousands of women have benefited from this proven program that features abdominal exercise after pregnancy. Why not use it with your clients today?

The first workout, Postpartum Exercises, provides safe, gentle, restorative workouts that can be started just days after giving birth and is designed to speed healing from labor and delivery, relieve discomfort and start firming up overstretched abdominal muscles.

The second workout, Knitting Back Together, offers a special series of exercises that flatten, shorten and strengthen the abdominals, and develops functional core strength and stability.

The third workout, Advanced Core Strength, offers a more challenging total-body core program for women who want to build athletic strength.

Exercise After Pregnancy: How to Look and Feel Your Best explains how the pregnancy alters posture and alignment, functional muscular balance and connective tissue, and how to effectively cope with these and other postnatal changes and challenges. In-depth information and advice on important postnatal concerns regarding the pelvic floor, abdominal separation, and special postpartum abdominal reconditioning techniques help new mothers bounce back as quickly as possible. Also provided is a comprehensive review of good body usage in everyday activities to help women avoid back pain and injury by demonstrating proper lifting and carrying techniques, ergonomic breast feeding, and how to safely manage heavy baby equipment like car seats and strollers as well as front packs and slings.

Acclaimed by new mothers everywhere, the book has become a must-have reference for fitness professionals such as group fitness instructors, personal trainers, Pilates and yoga teachers and other professionals who work with prenatal and postpartum women.

Exercise After Pregnancy Highlights:

• Strengthens all four layer of the abdominal wall
• Flattens the abs and quickly improves body contours
• Lengthens and realigns the spine
• Develops deep core strength and stability
• Improves flexibility
• Creates muscular balance throughout the body
• Builds upper-body strength for lifting and carrying
• Improves neuromuscular coordination
• Repairs abdominal separation
• Develops good body usage