Fittest Core

Friendly reminder of the day to all moms: you are allowed to want to feel confident in your body and be proud of it, dangit!!!

Postpartum fitness advice you should NOT be listening to...

There's so much noise on social media now, and a lot of it sounds helpful on the surface, but can actually set you back. Here's what I want you to stop taking as gospel:

"Bounce back by 6 weeks": Your 6 week checkup is exactly that: a checkup, NOT a clearance to move full steam ahead. Postpartum healing doesn't magically end at that 6-week mark. In fact, it begins before and it should continue on for much longer after. Rushing this because of a made-up timeline does more harm than good, and it puts pressure on a body that's still very much in the middle of recovering.

"Just do more cardio to lose the baby weight": Cardio will not and does not rebuild your pelvic floor and deep core connection and function, or your body's strength. Resistance training with progressive overload does more for your body composition AND your recovery.

"Crunches will flatten your stomach": For the love of God, do not do crunches postpartum, please 😩 If your core and pelvic floor haven't been reconnected, rebuilt, and restrengthened first, crunches can actually make things (ahem, diastasis recti) worse, NOT better. Flat isn't the goal anyway, function is.

"Just do kegels for your pelvic floor": Kegels are one SMALL piece of a much bigger picture, and for some women they're not even the right piece at all! Our pelvic floors need to relax and lengthen, not just squeeze over and over again.

"You should feel back to normal by X weeks": There is no universal timeline. And not even YOUR two, three, etc postpartum journeys will have the same timeline! Comparing your recovery to someone else's just adds pressure that doesn't serve you.

"If you're not sore, it didn't work": Soreness isn't the measure of a good workout, especially postpartum. Consistency and proper progression matter far more than how wrecked you feel after. That goes for a good sweat, too...

Your postpartum body deserves more nuance than a generic tip floating around the internet that may have worked for someone else (or is good clickbait 😉).

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This is exactly why I do what I do!!!

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