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HIIT Series – Tip 3: Revving Your Metabolism and Still Protecting Your Core
This is the third article in our HIIT series. And for the past few weeks, we've been chatting about a few tips to help you know how to do HIIT workouts if you have a diastasis. The "how" is definitely important, but what's even more important is the "why." Why...
HIIT Series – Tip 2:The Key to Fat Loss Without Dieting
As I'm sure you know by now, Fitness is my wheelhouse for a healthy body, it is not dieting. Fueling your body with clean, whole, healthy foods is necessary for your health for sure! But dieting??? No thank you. How then, if we aren’t dieting, can we create the...
HIIT Series: Tip 1: What nobody tells you about HIIT Workouts and DR
One of the most frustrating things about having Diastasis Recti and core weakness for the moms I coach is that they want to do the "hard stuff" again. They want to sweat and lift heavy and train hard. They want to continue running or doing their favorite HIIT workout,...
Using Your Core During Lower Body Workouts
If you're new to my world of postpartum fitness, you’ll quickly learn how much I love using lower body workouts as core workouts too! After all, our bodies are all connected, and it takes some good core strength to support lower body exercises. Squats, lunges, and ...
The Time Came
Hey all! I wanted to share something hopeful with you that doesn't have anything to do with fitness. 🙂 All too often we live under the anxious feelings that our time is going by too fast. - Our kids are growing up too fast. - We aren't using the time in the day...
The 20 second neck and shoulder pain release
My life changed forever when I discovered this neck-relief stretch. It takes literally 20 seconds (unless you do it multiple times a day because it's so amazing), and you'll love it! I don't have to tell you how often moms find themself in hunched forward positions,...
Use your glutes, please
How strong are your glutes? How do you know if your glute muscles are actually the ones working when you squat, lunge, deadlift, run, walk, etc? Do you have nice long, relaxed glute muscles that can handle load when needed, or are they short and tight and get bullied...
Are you actually using your glutes when you run?
Using your glutes for running seems obvious. But, it's harder than it sounds. Tight hip flexors and quad dominant running happens quite a lot to runners after they become moms. And, running without using your glutes leads to tight, locked up muscles, low back pain,...
The first thing you must do if you want to start (or return) to running again after pregnancy (without injury)
There are so many "gurus", other moms, magazines, postpartum programs, and fitness pros out there giving their best advice for how to get back to running after having babies. It's certainly no easy task. There are so many things that need to heal before you're fully...
The 1 mistake to avoid with postpartum running so you don’t feel 99 yrs old.
Ok, friends, as if trying to run after having a baby isn't hard enough (hello loose joints and ligaments, squishy belly, and weak pelvic floor that makes us pee), believe it or not, there's one glaring issue that moms actually do to themselves that makes postpartum...