What Diastasis Recti Actually Is Diastasis recti is when the two sides of your ab muscles separate along the middle, leaving the connective tissue between them (the linea alba) stretched and weak. It’s incredibly common after pregnancy, and it can also show up from years of pressure being managed the wrong way. Here’s the part […]
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If you have searched for how to get your summer body back after baby, you are not shallow. You are not impatient. You want to feel strong, confident, and comfortable in your clothes again. The problem is not the goal. The problem is the approach. Most summer body plans ignore one critical factor, postpartum recovery.
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If you have tried crunches, sit ups, or intense ab workouts to get rid of your postpartum belly and nothing changed, you are not failing. You are training the wrong way. The postpartum belly is not only body fat. For many women, the issue is pressure, muscle separation, and deep core weakness. If you want
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Why Your Postpartum Belly Is Not Just Fat If you are months postpartum and still look pregnant, you might assume the issue is simple. You need to lose weight. For many women, that is not the full story. A persistent postpartum belly is often linked to muscle separation, pressure dysfunction, and deep core weakness. If
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A Gentle Way to Start Rebuilding Your Core After having a baby, it’s normal to feel unsure about where to begin with exercise. Maybe you’ve tried a few workouts and noticed pressure in your stomach. Or maybe you’ve avoided core work completely because you’re worried about making your diastasis worse. Either way, you’re not alone
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Until recently, most of the research surrounding the way to heal diastasis recti has centered on the goal of closing the abdominal gap. Similarly, the primary objective of many postpartum exercise programs was to reduce or eliminate this gap as a means of recovery from diastasis recti. Historically, these exercises concentrated on physically coaxing together
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When I was about 2 weeks postpartum with my twins, I remember lying on the floor and pressing my fingers so far into my belly (feeling nothing but squish) that I thought my fingers would actually touch my back. I had the worst ab separation (diastasis recti) ever. Yep, my core was shot. There were
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Let’s get right to it: you can strengthen your abs just by fixing your posture! Diastasis Recti is a pressure management issue. When you’ve got an ab separation, your connective tissue and rectus muscles become weak and cannot properly hold pressure inside your core canister. This results in the pressure wanting to find the path
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It’s that time again for our One Exercise Weekly Series, where I show you a quick demo of one exercise I’m doing this week that has a big impact on my core strength. Yes, it takes more than core exercises to heal your core! These are exercises I rotate in to my daily movement practice
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