How to: Properly Strengthen Your Core During Pregnancy

One of the main reasons women experience intense ab separation postpartum is because they DIDN’T work their core while pregnant out of fear or because they were told not to. Maintaining core strength and engagement during pregnancy helps to prevent intense ab separation, makes recovery postpartum easier and helps with PP functionality (think - carrying a heavy baby around all day).

Baby, WorkoutLaura VarneySeptember 8, 2022That Baby BodyComment

How to Prevent/Heal Diastasis Recti

Something that’s important to understand is that our rectus abdominals have always been separated. By understanding how to cultivate a mind-body connection, use specific breathing techniques and properly engage the core, these every day movements will have little to no impact on the connective tissue, having us with less severe ab separation that’s much easier to heal PP.

Baby, Fitness, WorkoutLaura VarneyAugust 26, 2022The Baby Bodydiastasis recti, ab separation, postpartum exercise, postpartum core exercises, preventing diastasis recti, healing diastasis recti, prenatal core exercises, The Baby BodyComment