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Friday, January 23, 2015

4 Yoga Moves to Strengthen Abs After Baby

Did you know that yoga is great for your abs?

While doing yoga is not the best way to get a six-pack, you can expect to significantly tone and strengthen your belly. Strengthening your core can also help relieve back pain and improve your posture (nothing makes your belly look bigger than slouching!).

Here are 4 yoga moves to strengthen your abs after baby:

1. Boat Pose
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  • Start seated with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Lean back just far enough so your feet can float off the ground.
  • Begin to straighten your legs together so that your body forms a V shape, keeping your arms extended and parallel to the ground.
  • Balance on your tailbone and sit bones, chest lifted, and gaze
2. Camel Pose
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  • Stand on your shins with your knees hips-width distance apart.
  • Lean back, and place your hands on your heels, arching back and allowing the head to fall between the shoulder blades.
  • Continue to press the hips forward to engage the abs, thighs, and tush, enjoying this pose for five breaths.
3. Cat/Cow Pose
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• Get on all fours with the back flat and gaze towards the floor.
• Line up your hands underneath the shoulders and knees under the hips.
• Exhale, tucking the tailbone and rounding the spine towards the ceiling, and release the neck.
• Then inhale, lifting the shoulders and seat bones towards the ceiling and raising the head to look straight ahead.
• Repeat slowly and gently as many times as needed to warm up the spine and core.
4. Reverse Plank Pose
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  • Sit on the floor with your legs extended in front of you.
  • Place your palms, with fingers spread wide, on the floor slightly behind and outside your hips.
  • Press into your palms, and lift your hips and torso toward the ceiling.
  • Look up to the ceiling, point your toes, and keep your arms and legs straight.
  • Keep your entire body strong, and form a straight line from your head to your heels.
  • Squeeze your core and try to pull your belly button back toward your spine.
  • If your hips sag or drop, lower yourself back to the floor.
  • The goal is to maintain a straight line and hold for 20 to 30 seconds.
**Disclaimer: Please check with your doctor before trying these or any exercises in general after giving birth. Wait until you are cleared.**

These 4 yoga moves are included in the Abs After Baby program. It IS possible to get abs after baby. I will show you how I did it!


The Program Includes:
-The anatomy of your mommy abs.
-10 best Yoga moves for abs.
-Daily clean eating sample for abs plus a few recipes.
-Soothing exercises for the C-Section mother.
-All about Diastasis Recti and how to check yourself for it.
-An easy H.I.I.T. workout for warm ups.
-A workout program filled with ab-tastic exercises to target your whole abdominal muscle groups!



**Please note: If you are healing from a new C-Section or have Diastasis Recti, please check with your doctor before beginning a new workout program. This program is NOT recommend for pregnant women**


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