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Young Moms Staying Fit

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Post Partum  Personal Training
Santa Barbara, CA

Postpartum training with Nalini Kokatay

 

 After delivery, many women are cleared for exercise at their 6 or 8 week check-up. But the reality is, most women are not ready to return to their pre-baby exercise regime. Our postpartum body will not be the same body we had before pregnancy, and special care needs to be taken to heal and strengthen it.  There are many adaptations your body makes during pregnancy that often do not automatically go back to their non-pregnant state.  

 

Based in Santa Barbara, Nalini Kokatay can help you start wherever you are at in your postpartum process, whether you had your baby two months ago or decades ago (because once you’re postpartum, you’re always postpartum and it’s never too late!) and safely and effectively strengthen your body so you can return to the activities you love.

 

“If you’ve had a baby and you don’t feel or look how you are used to, if you leak pee when you jump, sneeze, or cough, if you feel like your pelvic organs are falling out, or you feel like no matter what you do you can’t get your core strength back, I’ve been there too.  I’ve spent the last decade deepening my understanding of pregnant and postpartum bodies, and I’m passionate about helping women feel like themselves again after all of the changes carrying, birthing, and caring for a baby bring.”

- Nalini Kokatay

Even if you had your baby years ago, its never too late get started on a healing path for postpartum issues.

Postpartum Package:

 

One in-home postpartum massage, and an eight-week online exercise program you can begin as soon as you have your doctor or midwife’s okay.  Designed to reconnect you to your pelvic floor and core, and to gently build strength and support your nervous system after delivery.  

Young Mothers Staying Fit

The Big Three--Core, Pelvic Floor, and Breathing

Postpartum Belly Issues: Progressive exercises to regain a strong and functional core.  If you haven't "snapped back" after delivery, you are not alone.  Many women need to reestablish a brain-body connection with their deep core and recreate a strong foundation (or perhaps establish one for the first time) and build from there.  

Pelvic Floor Woes: Counterintuivite as it may sound, many women have hypertonic (too tight) pelvic floor muscles that are responsible for their symptoms of leaking, pain, or prolapse.  This. is not always the case, but it is important to meet your body where it's at and understand what is happening in your own body. Learn exercises to balance your PF for optimal function.

Breathing: Optimal breathing ties it all together in a very important way!  Breathing has everything to do with core and pelvic floor function.  Once you have integrated a body sense of the big three, you have a solid foundation that will serve you in whatever activities you wish to pursue.   





 

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