Name: Playbook - Miranda Criner - W6/D5 Prenatal Core
Uploaded: 2022-11-09T19:45:15.613Z
Duration: 40 min
Description: W6/D5 Prenatal Core

We are working all the core muscles today! 

Grab those bands and get ready to build a strong core to Support you & baby!

Always make sure to warm up before jumping into your workout! I know you’re eager to get the work done mama, but warm those muscles up and get that blood flowing!

The exercises below we will work for :40 seconds on with a :20 second rest and transition.

- Stand with feet shoulder width apart
- Lower in to the bottom of a squat pushing your hips back and down
- Stand up out of squat to full hip extension keeping your chest up
- Your knees should be inline with your toes

Air squats

- Stand with your legs shoulder width apart
- Flex your knee and kick your heel up toward your glutes
- As one leg comes down, flex your other knee and kick your other foot up toward your glutes 
- Swing your arms as if you were jogging
- Increase speed as you feel comfortable

Butt kicks

- Begin on your hands and knees
- Round your back and tuck your chin
-hold for two to three seconds
- Arch your back and look forward
- hold for two to three seconds
- repeat for reps or time

Cat/Cow

- Lay on the floor with your legs bent
- Push through your heels bringing your hips up 
- Squeezing your glutes 
- Lower back to starting position

Glute bridge

Forearm Plank Hold

1st Trimester Warm Up

This banded core is all about working nice and slow keeping control of the movement and focus on ab contraction!

Work the four moves for four rounds. Be mindful of the reps, they change each round! 

Make sure to rest (:10-:30 seconds) before moving to the next exercise and rest 1-2 minutes between rounds-

- Place band around feet
- Pull your knee toward your chest while rotating your upper torso 
- Bring your opposite elbow to your knee 
- Repeat on the opposite side
- Focus on engaging your core

Banded Bicycle crunches

- place band around lower legs
- while sitting on flute, pull the legs into the body and wrap the arms around
- while leaning back, press legs out in front of you and bring the legs apart and arms fall behind you and spread them apart so you end up in a ‘star’ position

Banded Cherry bombs

Banded Bear Crawl Taps to Plank Step Outs

- Wrists under shoulders and hands out front
- Keeping your core tight 
- Jack your feet out and back in
- As your feet return to starting jump them forward as if bending the body in half and jump back out to high plank position

Banded Plank jacks to Pike

Banded Core

Good work mama!

Time for a cool down and stretch!

We are working each move for :20 seconds and resting for :10 - :20 for transition.

Take these slow and controlled. Remember to breath while we hold each move. Inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth. Make your exhales longer than your inhales to really bring your heart rate down.

- while seated place both legs straight in front of you
- Clasp hands together with your thumbs pointing down 
- Round your shoulders as you reach your hands forward

Seated Upper back stretch

- While lying flat on a mat bring your left ankle to the right knee 
- bring your left hand in between the legs and you right hand to the outside of your right leg and interlace the fingers just behind the knee
- engage the core and slowly pull your knee and ankle towards your chest stretching out the hip flexors and glutes 
- hold for 20-30 seconds
- slowly bring the the right foot back to the mat and switch sides

Lying Figure 4 Stretch

- while standing tall with core engaged
- extend both arms straight out to the side
- retract the shoulder blades back, pinching shoulder blades together while keep arms straight
- hold for 10-20 seconds and breathe nice and slow in through the nose and out through the mouth

Chest Stretch - Arms Wide

Standing nice and tall bring both hands straight up and above the head
- take the right hand and slowly pull the left hand to the right side as you bend at the waist
- keep the belly button in toward the spine and breathe
- hold for 10-20 seconds and slowly bring it back to standing and switch sides

Standing Oblique Stretch

- With feet shoulder width apart lift the right toes up and keeping the right leg straight hinge the hips back bend the left knee
- Lightly press down on the right quad the deepen the stretch
- slowly bring it back to starting and switch sides

Hamstring stretch

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