Pregnancy & Postpartum

Core Education For All Pregnant and Postpartum Mamas.

Welcome! This is the *Education Only* portion of the Functional Core Guide for Pregnancy and Postpartum There are 13 modules with over 150 educational videos in this program. In this guide you will learn everything from how to reprogram your breathing to applying core strategies to exercise. You will learn how to manage core pressure as well as prevent future core injuries. This is everything you need to know about core, pregnancy, and postpartum.

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Welcome! This is the *Education Only* portion of the Functional Core Guide for Pregnancy and Postpartum There are 13 modules with over 150 educational videos in this program. In this guide you will learn: 1. Learn how to re-pattern your daily breathing back to diaphragmatic breathing and build upon this foundation to correctly engage your inner core unit. 2. Learn the positive and negative effects intra-abdominal pressure can have on your body and how to use this pressure system to get stronger, create functionality and assist in healing in your inner core. 3. Understand how the inner core unit works, the specific muscles involved, why those muscles are important, and how to properly engage/activate and balance those muscles. This knowledge will keep your body healthy, increase your overall strength and create a reactive functional core as you progress through your pregnancy, postpartum and fitness journey. 4. Know when to modify exercise during pregnancy and postpartum so that it is SAFE for YOU. 5. Learn different breath work and cues to help you understand your own body by feeling the correct inner core unit muscles activating. These knowledge and cues will help you rehab diastasis recti, pelvic floor prolapse, incontinence, and core dysfunction. 6. Gain an overall sense of confidence in the capabilities of your body during your pregnancy or postpartum journey (including setting up getting back into exercise with confidence). The core is the foundation to our bodies; if it is functional and strong, we are able to build upon it while also preventing injury. 7. Tutorials with physiotherapists on all things deep core, pushing prep for birth and healing postpartum! Including episiotomy and c-section scar work. 8. Breathing and engagement strategies to manage pressure and how to apply it to exercise to continue your journey into fitness.

Modules

Alignment

5.0

Diaphragmatic Breathing

5.0

Breathing Examples

5.0

Engaging The Inner Core

5.0

Engagement Examples

5.0

Intra-abdominal Pressure and Core Dysfunction

5.0

Diastastis Recti

5.0

Postpartum

5.0

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About Hannah Bower

My page, and my life is dedicated to helping women break through toxic diet and fitness culture. You are stronger and more capable than you could ever

#community I am a wife and a Mother who loves all things health and fitness. I have a bachelor’s degree in Health and Exercise Science with a Concentration in Sports Medicine. I am a certified personal trainer with 5 specializations & certifications in pre and postnatal fitness, corrective exercise and I am diastasis core consultant. I am a wife and a Mother who loves all things health and fitness. I have a bachelor’s degree in Health and Exercise Science with a Concentration in Sports Medicine. I am a certified personal trainer with 5 specializations & certifications in pre and postnatal fitness, corrective exercise and I am diastasis recti core consultant. My learning is always on going! Over the last 5 years, I have developed a passion helping others establish a healthy lifestyle both mentally and physically that is enjoyable and sustainable. I believe that exercise is a celebration, not a punishment. Life is to be enjoyed and in that is enjoying food of all kinds, no guilt. There is a healthy balance that works and looks different on everyone, I’m passionate about helping others find theirs. I created my channel to bring realism into the fitness social media world. To debunk crash diets, old toxic fitness myths on how to lose weight and to bring truth to what it means to be healthy both mentally and physically. Your journey to bettering your health, both physically and mentally should be enjoyable and empowering. Easy? No. Worth it? Yes. Everyone is going to have a lifestyle that works and looks different for them. There are no absolutes here. There is no right or wrong way in achieving that path, as long as it promotes a healthy relationship with food and exercise, and you are HAPPY. Take a look around. Excited and honored to start a journey with you.

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