Postpartum Fitness Blog

Exercise After a C-Section: 4 Things You Need to Know

You had a C-section and now you’re looking for tips and strategies for getting back on that workout train, hey?

You’ve probably seen the usual do and don’t lists and maybe you’ve even found a few C-section “safe” workouts. But there could be a couple things that some other pros haven’t mentioned.

Things that’ll help you dive back into your workout routine feeling strong and confident.

That’s why I’m sharing 4 things you need to know about exercise after a C-section.

Is “Listen to Your Body” Actually Good Advice?

One of the most common pieces of advice that pregnant and postpartum mamas get when they exercise or want to get back into exercise after having a baby is, “Just listen to your body and you’ll be fine.”

Now this may seem like great advice. And it is.

Listening to your body is key to helping ensure you aren’t pushing yourself too hard, creating any issues, or making any issues you’re already dealing with worse.

But there’s a problem with these words of wisdom that a lot of well-meaning doctors, trainers, and other pros fail to mention.

Which means that these hopefully helpful words can become totally unhelpful (and maybe even harmful) for some moms.

That’s why I knew I needed to create this video for you.

Want to Boost Your Weight Loss Results By 33%? Do This.

You’ve decided you want to lose some weight.

Maybe you just had your kiddo and you’re hoping to drop the extra pounds you gained during pregnancy.

Maybe you had your kiddo months (or years) ago and you’ve decided now’s the time.

So you’re searching for some tips and strategies to make that happen.

I hear you. And I would love to help you (and what I share in this post can absolutely help you).

First you need to know this…

A lot of moms (especially new moms) feel pressured to lose weight. They want to get their “pre-baby body back” because they feel like that’s what they need to do.

And losing weight is an absolutely okay goal to have – but not at the expense of your emotional or physical health.

It’s really important that you remember that you don’t have to do this. You don’t have to lose the baby weight.

So, while I’m here to help, I don’t want you to feel pressure from me (or anyone else) that this is something that needs to happen. Because it doesn’t.

You get to decide what you want for your body. I’m not going to tell you what that should be and I understand that weight loss may be something that you want. And that’s cool.

Just be sure it really is what you want and you know why it’s important to you. The real, deeply meaningful why that’s submerged under the layers of “look good on the beach” and “have my pre-baby body back”. So it’s going to be easier for you to get (and keep) some awesome results.

Now that you’re sure this is what you truly want, and you know why this is important to you, let’s talk about the how.

3 Common Nutrition Tips That Don’t Work For Moms (And What to Do Instead)

I was scrolling through Instagram the other day and came across a post on nutrition.

The Instagrammer was making suggestions on how someone could improve their nutrition habits without actually changing what they eat – simple habit tweaks here and there.

Now there were some helpful tips, but I couldn’t help but think that 99% of the ideas just weren’t realistic for most moms.

Mom life is crazy and chaotic and totally unpredictable every single day.

And if you’re trying to make healthy changes but you can’t easily fit them into your life it’s going to cause you more stress then happiness – which defeats the purpose of trying to be healthy in the first place.

Because being healthy isn’t just about our physical health or how we look. We also want to nurture our mental and emotional health and if you constantly feel like you’re failing at the nutrition goals you set, that’s not doing your soul any favours.

So let’s talk about some of these common nutrition tips and how you can tweak them to realistically fit into your life – most days. Because let’s be honest, there’s never going to be one thing that works every single time.

This Movement Could Be the Missing Key to Help Heal Your Diastasis Recti

When you search for “diastasis safe exercises” it seems like everyone and their poodle has an idea of what you should do and what you – “Oh my goodness don’t even think about it or you’ll never heal!” – definitely shouldn’t do.

Healing a diastasis can feel overwhelming and exhausting – especially with so many ideas floating around out there.

The problem is, there isn’t one best strategy for every single mama.

I wish I could just say, “Go do these 5 exercises twice a day and you’ll be healed in 6 weeks!”

But it’s not that magical.

Every body is different. Every case is different.

Which is why I can’t promise you that what you’ll learn in today’s post will absolutely heal your fascia and tissues and give you 100% function and strength back.

But what I can promise is that I’ll let you in on some must-know goodness that’ll help you better manage your diastasis and increase your chances of actually healing it.

7 Steps to Safely Get Back Into Running Postpartum

I’ll never forget the joy (and relief) I felt when I saw the finish line.

After 6+ months of training, thousands of inner voice pep-talks, “You’ve got this, keep going. You’ve got this, keep going…”, and 13 hilly miles, I was there.

I’d done it.

Crossing that finish line I locked eyes with my mom. She smiled. As a runner herself, she knew what I was feeling.

After all those miles I finally understood what the veteran runners were feeling when they talked about the “runner’s high”.

I had it.

It felt so good.

After having my daughter I craved that feeling again. I wanted to have a workout that made me feel alive. I was desperate to feel like my old self again. I just wanted to get back to the stuff I loved – feeling strong.

So I get it. I get why you want to get back into running. You love it. You love the challenge. You love the energy.

That’s why I want to help you get back into it – safely.

Whether you had your baby 6 weeks ago or 6+ years ago and you want to get back into running, here are 7 steps to help make that happen.