Pregnancy

My Top Tip for Training during Pregnancy

There are a few things that are MORE important than training your core during pregnancy

Top 5 Pregnancy Core Exercises

Women are obsessed with doing "core" exercises, and I get asked almost daily what exercises you should do for your core during pre

My Prenatal Fitness "Programme"

Now that I'm postpartum I want to share with you a retrospective view of my training through pregnancy. I write "programme" in inverted c...

GUIDELINES FOR LIFTING WHEN PREGNANT

If you'd prefer to listen to a video about this you can check out this video that I made on the same topic One of my aims during this pre...

Starting to Show: Body Image in Pregnancy

Imperceptible from the front, but getting hard to hide from the side. It's still at that awkward phase though where I just look like I'm ...

Can you do Handstands during Pregnancy?

Handstands while pregnant: here's everything that you need to know... Most people will tell you a resounding NO, and many of my trainees ...

What NOT to say to a Pregnant Woman

This one was a very cathartic one to write. Months of stupid, insensitive comments all pent up came flooding out as soon as I touched th...

Avoiding Stretch Marks during Pregnancy?

For those of you who know me well, you might be a little surprised that I'm writing about this topic – it's not the sort of thing I usual...

6 Biggest Misconceptions about Pregnancy Fitness

In my work I see not only a lot of pregnant and postpartum women that have been told all kinds of nonsense about pregnancy fitness, but a...

WEIGHT GAIN DURING PREGNANCY

This is a topic that’s been bugging me a lot lately. Like most women who are pregnant for the first time, I have been religiously devour...

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