StartStrong Fitness CIC

We're back next week. 🎉 Every class, every venue, from Tuesday 1st September.

If you're new 👇

💷 Our classes are free
👶 Your baby comes with you and lays and plays beside you, so there's no childcare to sort
🎒 Mats, bands and baby soft-play provided
👟 Qualified pre and postnatal coach in every session
⚖️ Every exercise has an easier and a harder option so it works whether you're six weeks post birth or two years in

Pregnant, postnatal, first baby, fourth baby, mum or dad. All welcome. 🤍

🔗 Booking link in bio. Spaces go quickly, so book early.

Bookings are live 💙

Mumma Connections is coming to Ipswich one morning a month, just for mums. A hot drink, a proper chat and a room full of people who actually get it.

📅 First Tuesday of every month first one Tues 6th October

⏰ 11am – 12.30pm

📍 The Royal Oak (Emmaus Suffolk), 175 Felixstowe Rd, Ipswich IP3 8EB

What’s included:

☕ A complimentary hot drink on arrival
🧸 Soft play to keep the little ones busy
💆‍♀️ A little treat just for you think massages, reflexology and other lovely bits
🎤 A guest speaker each month
🛍️ A local business to have a nosey at
🚗 Parking at the venue (limited spaces), plus an Aldi 5 mins away (Hines Rd, IP3 9BG) with 2 hours free

Book your spot here 👇

https://www.mummaconnections.com/book-events/p/ipswich-october

Babies and little ones very welcome. Come on your own, come with a friend or come in yesterday’s leggings we don’t mind as we are all mumma bears 🐻

I can’t wait to see you all there! 💛

Mumma Connections - Ipswich - 06/10/26 at 11am — Mumma Connections | Meet Suffolk Mums Come as you are. Mumma Connections is a relaxed 90-minute meet-up for mums, run right here in Suffolk. Grab a hot drink (on us), find a seat, and spend a bit of time with mums who genuinely get it. Children of all ages are welcome — this isn't a sit-still-and-be-quiet kind of event, it's a br

We’re excited to share that our founder Emma will be a guest speaker at the Essex Babylab Coffee Morning this Thursday! ☕️💕

🧠 Changing Brains, Changing Bodies: The Transition to Motherhood
📅 Thursday 27th August, 10:00–11:30am
📍 Health, Wellbeing and Care Hub, University of Essex, CO4 3GS

Emma will be speaking alongside Dr Jessica Leov from the University of Essex about how motherhood changes us brain and body and how movement can support that journey.

It’s completely FREE, there’s free parking on site and little ones are very welcome! 👶

Grab your free ticket via the link below we’d love to see you there!

Your body didn't just carry a baby. It rearranged itself to do it. 🤍

Pregnancy changes your posture and your joints and those changes don't reverse the day you give birth. Most parents are never told this.

What actually happens 👇

⚖Your centre of gravity shifts forward, so your lower back takes more load and your ribs flare out
🦴Your pelvis widens and tilts
🧬The hormones that softened your ligaments are still in your system for months, so joints move further than they used to that's the loose, clicky feeling

Then real life piles on top:
🤱 Feeding rounds your upper back and shoulders forwards
🚗 A car seat carried on one arm loads one side, every time
🛏️ Lifting a baby in and out of a cot dozens of times a day is a deadlift you never trained for
✋ Wrist and thumb pain is common, and nobody warns you about that either

Add diastasis recti and a pelvic floor that's still recovering, and "just get back into it" is genuinely bad advice.

This is why our classes are self-paced circuits not bootcamp, not HIIT. Every exercise has an easier and a harder option. We rebuild the muscles that hold you up glutes, deep core, upper back before we ask anything to go faster.

It's not about bouncing back. 💪 It's about being strong enough for the lifting, carrying and floor-getting-up-from that the next few years are made of.

Back Tuesday 1st September. 📅

No parent should have to navigate parenthood alone. 💙

You do not have to be out of pocket to give your children a good summer. 🌳

I talked about this on the radio recently, because the pressure to spend over the six weeks is real and for a lot of families it is simply not there to spend.

Free things that still fill an afternoon. 👇

🌳The park, but a different one to your usual a new playground is a whole day out to a four year old

📚The library. Free, dry and the summer reading challenge gives the big ones something to chase
🏖️The beach. Bucket, spade, sandwiches from home
🌲A woodland walk with a stick collection and a den at the end of it
🧺A picnic on a blanket in the garden or the front room if it rains
💦Puddle jumping in wellies. Costs nothing, remembered for years (might not need for this summer we are having haha)
🖍A cardboard box and some pens. Genuinely.
🐾A scavenger hunt on the walk you already do —five things that are green, three things that are round

None of that is a consolation prize. It is just childhood.

Children remember who was there. Not how much you spent. 🤍

Drop your best free thing to do below if someone reading this needs an idea for tomorrow. 👇

Suffolk mums this one’s for you 💙

Mumma Connections is coming to Suffolk and I’m the one hosting Ipswich event. 💛

A proper in person get together for mums: no pressure, no performance babies and children very welcome.

We have guest speakers, soft play, exhibitors and a room full of people that get it!

I’m finalising the venue on Thursday (fingers crossed 🤞) and then I can share dates.

Bookings are limited with 20-25 tickets per event and the interest locally has already been lovely, so I don’t expect them to hang around long.

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The summer holidays are lovely. ☀️ They are also six weeks with no routine.

Older children are at home. Naps go out of the window. The class that was in your diary every week isn't there. And the first thing to go is the one thing you were doing for yourself.

If that is you right now, you have not gone backwards. 💛 You are in a different season for a few weeks, that's all.

Things to remember:

✅ It’s okay to put yourself first each week in the 6 weeks holiday
✅ It’s okay if you are counting down the days for your the summer holidays to finish
✅ Have dates in the diary to see friend will keep you sane!
✅ Find classes that still run in the holidays or have some evenings where your partner takes over so you can get out for a walk/ workout
✅ You will lose your temper with your children, that’s okay you are definitely not the only person who has!

Be kind to yourself, know that you are doing your best and know it’s okay to put yourself first from time to time as happy parent = happy child 👶

We're back from Tuesday 1st September. 🗓️ Until then, be kind to yourself.

No parent should have to navigate parenthood alone. 💙