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Love Handles Workout At Home – Diastasis Recti Safe

August 1, 2019

Lose your love handles and melt your muffin top right at home with five of the best exercises for love handles! This follow-along love handle workout will tone and shape your sides and obliques to enhance your curves and accentuate your hourglass. Best part is all these exercises are diastasis recti friendly so they are perfect for post-pregnancy moms to trim and tone their stomachs.

Best home workout for love handles - also diastasis recti safe! From Tone-and-Tighten.com

Why are they even called “LOVE HANDLES”, anyway?? I mean – who really “loves” “love handles”??

If you’re tired of the excess weight you carry just above your belt line then it’s time to do something about it!

This is an amazing workout you can do right at home that’s going to target and tone your lateral trunk muscles to eliminate love handles forever.

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AB WORKOUT AFTER BABY – Diastasis Recti Safe!

February 20, 2019

Nine of the best exercises to tone and strengthen your core after pregnancy. Flatten your stomach and tone your abs after having a baby with this great workout you can do at home. The best part – it’s diastasis recti friendly and can actually help to heal your abdominal separation.

20-MINUTE AB WORKOUT AFTER BABY

Abdominal vacuum
Pelvic tilt with march
Side plank – static
Bridge with vacuum
Dying bug
Side plank pulses
Tabletop toe taps
Bird dog with vacuum
Thread the needle side plank

Keep reading below for detailed instruction in how each of these exercises is performed.

One of the most common questions that I get asked here on Tone and Tighten is “how can I get my stomach back to normal following pregnancy.”

Many women come to me looking to get rid of the “mommy tummy” (their phrase, not mine) after giving birth. In fact – did you know that’s the whole reason I started Tone-and-Tighten.com? (Check out the “ABOUT JARED” tab for the whole story).

Now – there are a TON of ways you can tone and strengthen your abs. After having a baby, I know this can be a huge issue. Your stomach has been in an all-out war for the last nine months and the after-effects can leave your stomach… well… “different” than what you may be used to.

I deal daily with women looking to recover their abs after pregnancy, either in my gym or as clients. I dare say the majority of them are going about it the wrong way.

They spend all this time doing millions of sit ups and crunches and then come to me wondering why they’re not seeing results and why their back is hurting.

Here’s the secret – in order to see abdominal workout results postpartum you HAVE to be doing the RIGHT exercises the RIGHT way. You actually need to STOP doing sit ups and crunches and start spending your time with better exercises that will yield the results you’re after.

Today I wanted to share with you my go-to post-pregnancy ab workout. This is a 20-minute ab routine you can do at home that was designed specifically to tone and strengthen your abdominal muscles after pregnancy. These exercises are even diastasis-recti friendly (a condition we’ve rehabbed with my wife 4 times now)!

So let’s get to work! …

Exercises To Avoid With Diastasis Recti – And What To Do Instead!

February 13, 2019

One of the most-common conditions that I treat as a physical therapist is diastasis recti (DR). This is a condition that affects up to 60% of women either during pregnancy or postpartum. Fortunately, there’s a lot that exercise can do to help this condition if done correctly. Today I wanted to share with you 3 ab exercises you should definitely NOT do with a DR, and what you should do instead to tone your abs and help heal this separation.

*** As always – if you have recently delivered GET CLEARANCE FROM YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE STARTING THIS OR ANY WORKOUT PROGRAM. 6 weeks post-partum is the most generally-accepted “safe time” to resume some of these activities, but it’s always best to have your doctor’s clearance for your own unique situation. ***

WHAT IS A DIASTASIS RECTI?

Your abs and abdominal cavity are made up of four muscles. The one that sits out in front is called the “rectus abdominis” (RA) and goes from the bottom of the rib cage to the top of the pelvis. This is the “six pack” muscle that’s primarily active in crunches, sit ups, and other exercises that bring our ribs towards our pelvis (trunk flexion).

This muscle is composed of two muscle bellies that run vertically next to each other and are connected by a tendon-like connective tissue called the linea alba.

In instances of strenuous pressure on the abdomen and abdominal cavity the connective tissue between the halves of the rectus abdominis can be stretched, pulled, and eventually even separate. This is what we refer to as a “diastasis recti”.

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