📌SAVE these 5 Pelvic Floor Strengthening Exercises during Pregnancy. Strengthening your pelvic floor muscles during pregnancy is essential for managing your growing baby’s weight and setting yourself up for an easier postpartum recovery. Your pelvic floor is the foundation of your core canister, stabilizing your pelvis to prevent aches and pains, managing intra-abdominal pressures to avoid leakage and back injuries, and working with your hips to support your lower body. During pregnancy, these muscles take on even more work: ✔️pumping increased blood flow through the pelvis ✔️supporting your baby’s weight ✔️stabilizing your back, hips, and lower body as your belly grows and places additional strain on your abdominal wall. While kegels are a great way to directly strengthen your pelvic floor, you can also improve pelvic floor function indirectly through exercises that focus on hip stability, lower back strength, deep core engagement, and glute activation. To get the most out of these exercises: ✅Pre-engage your pelvic floor muscles as if you’re stopping gas or urine. ✅Activate your deep core muscles by imagining your two front hip bones drawing together or pulling your belly button toward your spine. ✅As you move through the more challenging parts of the exercise, exhale to maintain this engagement and promote better activation. Try 12-15 reps of each exercise (don’t forget to do both side!): 1. Supported Bridges with Ball Squeeze 2. Banded Bird dogs 3. Single Leg Fire Hydrants 4. Kick Stand Paloff Press 5. Sidelying Hip Abduction with Ball Press Join my App’s 7-Day FREE Trial 📲 If you’re looking for more guidance on your prenatal training and want to remove the guesswork from your workouts, you can follow my Pregnancy Fitness Program available on the Momday App. -
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