
The Best Pregnancy Exercises
We know that exercise provides many health benefits whether you’re pregnant or not. Becoming pregnant may bring up questions about which exercises are safe and which aren’t, or what to do if you want to move, but aren’t feeling so great. We want to make things simple. Take a look …

Movement Insight: Pull-ups During Pregnancy
Can I do pull-ups during pregnancy? Should I do pull-ups while pregnant? When we say pull-ups we are referring to strict pull-ups, kipping pull-ups, butterfly pull-ups, and you could even throw ring strict and kipping muscle-ups in the mix. Pull-ups are a gymnastics movement that requires strength, coordination, …

Pelvic Mobility on Birth Ball
Pelvic Mobility Pelvic mobility is critical for comfort and for supporting your body’s ability to adapt throughout pregnancy and the immediate postpartum. Pelvic mobility is also vitally important for labor and delivery. Labor is a dance between mom and baby. Ideally, baby is head down and sort of corkscrewing …

Three Things to Keep Your Sanity During COVID
COVID has impacted this country beyond words and shaken our infrastructure to its core. It’s made us question many things, asked us to reprioritize, and placed heavier demands on everyone. It’s easy to see how a substantial amount of this new burden is falling on women and mothers. Many women …

Spinal Range of Motion for Pregnancy and Postpartum
This video demonstrates the general spinal range of motion for the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. This movement is ideal for anyone postpartum and anyone in their first trimester. We love this movement for postpartum rehab to bring back awareness around strength and stability. The segmentation of this movement allows …

3 Exercises for Urinary Incontinence
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B!RTHF!T + WHOOP
BIRTHFIT has recently partnered with WHOOP to optimize training performance and recovery for our clients. WHOOP is a wearable performance tracking band that measures strain, sleep, respiratory rate, and heart rate variability. Currently, there is little data on strength and conditioning training for women, and even less on pregnancy and …

Eight Things to Consider During a Twin Pregnancy
One sentiment I often hear from other moms before or after their first ultrasound is, “Oh my gosh! What if I’m having twins?” I have twins myself, so I’m not sure if I hear this regularly because they want my opinion on what it would be like, or if there …

General Prenatal Fitness Training Recommendations
I’m pregnant. Now what? This is the most common question we get in regard to prenatal fitness or training. Most people that send in this question embrace movement of some type and train regularly. And they are tired of guessing with training. They are looking for a coach that knows …