Moms need strong glutes because they’re an important ally to your pelvic floor and core. They’re also what you’ll use to do most of the lifting, walking, lunging, squatting… that comes with the #momlife territory.

So strong glutes = feeling stronger overall, functioning better, and having an easier time keeping up with the day-to-day physical demands of motherhood.

But something that’s often missed in postpartum exercise programming is the fact that it’s not just “Do these 12 exercises to get a better booty”.

There’s so much more to the postpartum glute-strengthening scene than that.

And the surprising truth is that – if you’ve been doing glute exercises and not noticing much, if any difference in the way your glutes feel or look – it might not be because you’re choosing the wrong exercises, or even that you’re not doing them enough.

It could be that you’ve got some tightness that’s stopping you from getting results.

It’s actually super common for moms to have tight muscles in (and around) their booty that make it hard (maybe even impossible) for the glutes to engage as well as they could.

Yes.

Just like you can have a too tight and a too weak pelvic floor at the same time, you can also have a too tight and too weak booty at the same time.

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How many times have you gotten to the end of the week, frustrated that you didn’t get enough workouts in?

How many months have gone by where you’ve been disappointed by not seeing the changes in your body you’d hoped you’d see by now?

How many promises have you made to yourself that this week it’s going to be different? This week you’ll take care of yourself for once?

Fitting in fitness as a mom can be complicated.

No two weeks are the same.

Heck, no two days are the same!

You do your best to plan out your workouts, decide when you’ll do them, get everything ready.

But then you’re up 5 times soothing a teething baby and too exhausted to do that HIIT workout.

Or you forgot that your kids have a doctors appointment so you can’t make it to the gym like usual.

Or you set your alarm to get up early and it works! You get up before anyone else on Monday and get your workout in. But then Wednesday rolls around and you have an early morning meeting so the workout will have to wait.

With so much inconsistency in your life, you can end up feeling like there’s no way you’ll ever get your workouts in on a regular basis.

This is why you need to take it one day at a time.

Or, as I like to tell my clients, plan but be flexible.

Here’s how that looks in my life.

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Ever have trouble doing some exercises – especially on all fours – because you get wrist or forearm pain?

Maybe that wrist pain even sticks around and bugs you randomly throughout the day too?

This is actually a super common issue for many moms and there are three key things you’ll want to focus on to help alleviate the pain.

But first, let’s get clear on what exactly this is so you know if it’s what you have and how to deal with it.

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Motherhood is hard.

Really hard.

And it’s made even harder when we’re constantly comparing ourselves to other moms and feeling guilty or judged for making certain choices.

Like losing your cool in the middle of aisle 3 and screaming at your tantruming 4 year old to “Get. Off. The. Floor. NOW!”

Skipping brushing your kiddo’s teeth and putting them straight into bed because you’re just done.

Or putting your toddler in front of the TV so you can get a workout in (and then leaving them there so you can also get in a shower too).

Yep.

Motherhood can feel like a revolving door of guilt, shame and judgment.

And it’s not just you.

According to one study out of England, a majority of moms don’t exercise because they feel guilty for taking time away from their kiddos (which I assume at least partially comes from a place of feeling like they’d be judged as being a “bad mom” for putting their own needs first).

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

You’re allowed to put your needs first.

You’re allowed to not let those guilty feelings, and judgy assumptions ruin your day.

You simply need to remember these 3 truths…

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You’ve been working out for weeks – maybe even months.

You’re trying, putting in the effort, making it happen as best you can.

You may not be as consistent as you’d like (being a mom means that exercise often gets shoved to the bottom of your to-do list under 500 other things that seem so much more important).

But you’re doing the best you can with the time and energy you have. That’s why you’re getting frustrated. Because you’re trying and you’re just not getting the results you were hoping for.

Here are 3 possible reasons why.

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Did you know that crunches actually aren’t the best exercise to get a stronger core?

And they’re definitely not something I recommend for most moms – especially new moms.

So what exercises should you do to get a stronger core?

There are actually so many great options out there beyond the traditional core exercises.

Like these 3 moves. These are great for moms because they’ll help you develop more strength in your core and they also mimic movements that you’re already doing on a daily basis. That means you’ll have more strength to keep up with the demands of motherhood.

All you need is a dumbbell, heavy ball, or even a small backpack with something in it (like a couple soup cans or a bag of rice).

Go light if you’re newer postpartum and still working on rebuilding your core strength.

If your body is ready for more of a challenge, grab a weight that feels heavy but doable.

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