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Summary: Lose weight after pregnancy with postnatal Pilates. Strengthen core muscles by doing postnatal Pilates with expert tips from a fitness instructor in this free workout video.
Ashley Ludman, OTR and ERYT, is co-owner and director of Seaside Yoga. She has been leading yoga teacher trainings and retreats since 2002. Ludman has over 500 hours of study in...read more
"Hi my name is Ashley Ludman from Seaside Yoga, here to talk to you about Postnatal Pilates. How do you do it? So essentially, with post, any type of postnatal exercise, you want to make sure that you have prior approval through your physician, especially if you had any type of complications during your childbirth, specifically, C-section or a tear in the linea alba or any type of episiotomy. You want to definitely make sure that you get the doctor's approval before that. So, Postnatal Pilates is great because it just helps you to, to draw back into your center, to create that support from your core. These are a couple of types of additional equipment or exercise band or the circle and the Pilate ball. But I'm going to demonstrate first the, what's called a Sew. So this helps to target the abdominal muscles especially the twisting obliques which helps to get your waistline back after pregnancy. So you'll start with sitting tall through the spine, then with your exhale you'll twist to one side, as if you're sewing off your little pinkie toe with your small finger, reaching across. And the reach doesn't have to be for flexibility but you want to reach from that center of your strength. Stretching back with your back shoulder, reaching long through both sides, inhale and come back to center. Then exhale, twisting from your obliques again and then go to the other side. So as much as you're twisting around, you're also rooting through your pelvis and stretching through the arms. And you'll do that about five to ten times and you'll probably notice an increase awareness of your oblique muscles, increase awareness of the core, increase breath capacity, and all that will help you when you are engage in a Postnatal Pilates workout. Thanks for joining me."
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