I am passionate and focused on supporting mums, helping them feel like themselves and confident in their bodies.
I am here for your journey.
I take time to get to know you, your goals and your pregnancy. From birth to recovery, everything is personal to you.
As a qualified pre & post-natal fitness specialist and a mum myself, I am very aware of what is happening with your body and what it requires. As well as the support you may need mentally. Sometimes you just need someone to understand those uncomfortable feelings of your growing bump, those frequent wee breaks and that feeling of not knowing your body postpartum.
What does PREGNANCY personal training involve?
My sessions are tailored to each person and will therefore vary for each person. This will depend on your stage of pregnancy, your fitness levels and your individual needs.
Sessions INCLUDE:
Understanding how to work your core - this is imperative during pregnancy
Safe lifting techniques and resistance training for pregnancy - looking after your posture with this ever-growing bump
Pelvic floor work
Nutrition and lifestyle guidance
Breathing techniques - carrying you through pregnancy into the postnatal stage
All sessions are designed to help you have a smooth, energy-filled pregnancy. Preparing you for birth and, as a result, ensuring a healthy, speedy recovery afterwards.
What does POSTNATAL personal training involve?
My postnatal training sessions are entirely built around you. I am fully aware that in some sessions all we may do is breathe and have a chat and that's ok! You have just birthed a human and right now although you want to get “that body back” you have other priorities. I will help you progress gradually by firstly understanding your new body and breath work. I will also take into account your current fitness levels and individual needs.
Sessions include:
Regaining strength and working on your core
Pelvic floor recovery
Resistance training - to help rebuild, improve posture and strengthen postnatally
Nutrition and lifestyle guidance
Breathing techniques - allowing you to reconnect to your core and floor
Stretches and relaxation techniques - helping to relieve some of the stresses of being a mum
The sessions are designed to help you make a progressive recovery. They can also help you avoid and heal issues that can occur postnatally such as pelvic pain and diastasis recti (abdominal separation).
Allowing you to feel confident and strong in your body’s abilities and strength.
Reconnect and regain from birth to 6 weeks
Congratulations on your new bundle of joy and welcome to this crazy mamahood journey!
This is the ideal course to give you and your body the right starting point. This will get you there slowly and build postpartum strength with short 15-minute easy-to-do-at-home exercises that you can squeeze in wherever you are to help you on your road to recovery!
Most mums will get discharged from the hospital and get told or given a leaflet on doing pelvic floor exercises and wait for 6-8 weeks when they see the GP before getting the go-ahead to exercise. When you reach that 6-8 week mark you are usually told you can return to whatever you were doing before pre-pregnancy! Albeit you have been doing physically challenging movements already at home with your child, so this advice should not be taken lightly!
You can and most definitely should do gentle breathing and pelvic floor exercises, as this will lay good foundations for making our bodies stronger and safer.
This free course will help you start rebuilding your body gradually and carefully.
In those early days after birth, when you're feeling overwhelmed with advice and options, and not sure where to start your postpartum rehab journey! This is whilst looking after your new addition!
THE MAIN GOALS OF THIS PERIOD ARE:
• Rest and recovery
• Re-establishing healthy breathing patterns
• Strengthening the core and pelvic floor connection
• Improves mind and muscle coordination
Throughout this mini-course we will be working on breathing techniques, the pelvic floor and the deep abdominal muscles with the aim to help with:
Back painPostural problems
Addresses muscular imbalances, such as pelvic girdle pain
Diastasis Recti
Discover the ability to move/ lift correctly knowing that you are engaging your core and pelvic floor correctly to avoid any further aches and pains!