Posts Tagged ‘mom fitness

Post Partum Abdominal Exercises
This week I was talking to my massage therapist and she said she had a post natal client with diastasis recti.  She said she was doing crunches and her abdominal split was getting worse- she was 6 months post partum if I recall correctly.

First What is Rectus Diastasis?  Wikipedia Definition It is the separation between the [...]

There are plenty of programs out there promoting HIIT.  This stands for High Intensity Interval Training.  This can be performed in many modes such sprint intervals, resistance super-set, 6-8 exercise circuits, tabata style intervals.  I definitely am an advocate of using resistance training in these intervals as well.  Does this mean barbells, dumbbells- yes and no.  [...]

Today I am going to post a little stretching program.  Stress and cold weather along with dehydration can really tighten everything up.  My own shoulder is bugging my with all this change and the fact that my daughter has just gained weight. 
5 SUPER  BUSY MOM STRETCHES
1. neck/traps   2.  traps/scapula   3. pectorials   4. gluteals   5.  hip flexor
Hold [...]

Another tid bit of information regarding sleep. Over the past 3 nights my baby has been sick so I was averaging about 3 hours sleep per night and completing a course through the day (so not napping). WOW, has this ever affected my maximum strength. I did have a good night sleep last night but, [...]

MOM FITNESS Dancing Queen

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11 Feb 2009

Every night after dinner my 3 year old asks to be excused from the table and goes to turn on the TV. We have ended this, “NO TV, you can listen to music or play with your toys”. My daughter out of her own volition has decided to DANCE, as we have music on anyway [...]


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