Exercise after Pregnancy How to Look and Feel Your Best - Softcover

Helene Byrne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977091716 ISBN 13: 9780977091713

Publisher: BeFit-Mom, 2007

Synopsis

"Exercise After Pregnancy: How to Look and Feel Your Best" (BeFit-Mom, 2007) offers new mothers the definitive guide to reconditioning after pregnancy. Featuring a safe, easy to follow, and amazingly effective 3-step program that systematically rebuilds the postpartum body and prepares you for the almost nonstop physical demands of motherhood. Helene's unique postnatal core system, which integrates the mind/body methods of Pilates and yoga with cutting-edge fitness techniques, can be started just days after giving birth, requires no specialized exercise equipment, and is suitable for all fitness levels. The program: Strengthens all four layer of the abdominal wall, flattens the abs and quickly improves body contours, closes abdominal separation, lengthens and realigns the spine, develops deep core strength and stability, improves flexibility, creates muscular balance throughout the body, builds upper body strength for lifting and carrying, and develops good body usage. The first workout,
Postpartum Exercises provides safe, gentle, restorative exercises that can be started just days after giving birth that are designed to speed healing from labor and delivery, relieve discomfort, and start firming up weakened abdominal muscles. The second workout,
Knitting Back Together offers a special series of exercises that flatten, shorten and strengthen the abdominal msucles, and develops functional core strength and stability. The third workout,
Advanced Core Strength offers a more challenging total-body core program for women who want to build athletic strength.
"Exercise After Pregnancy: How to Look and Feel Your Best" explains how the pregnancy alters posture and alignment, functional muscular balance and connective tissue, and how to effectively cope with these, and other postnatal changes and challenges.

Edition details

• Publisher: BeFit-Mom
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977091716
• ISBN 13: 9780977091713
• Binding: Paperback