When to start exercise after baby
How Soon Can I Workout after Giving Birth? | Exercise After Baby Postpartum Guidelines
did you just have your baby and you're
wondering how soon can I start
exercising after delivery on this video
we're gonna cover just that hi I'm
Tabitha Gomez and welcome to my youtube
channel I'm here to help all you busy
ladies out there juggling jobs careers
and kiddos with no real time to exercise
I'm gonna give you exercise tips tricks
routines and even product reviews to
help make exercise a part of your life
so in this video we're gonna cover
exercise postpartum and how soon you can
do it as you can see I got my third
little guy here I just had him four days
ago so everything is still much fluffy
and we are gonna go over some guidelines
to what you can and can't do
immediately after having the baby now if
this is too soon for you you can go
ahead and click this video here that's
gonna talk about belly binding to help
reduce your belly and your uterus back
down a much faster the first thing we're
gonna cover is exercise
what is exercise and what is the
definition of exercise because I know
all too well I just got released from
the hospital three days ago and they
tell you no exercise for six weeks or
until you're six week postpartum checkup
but exercise is such a broad definition
so let's go over it according to the
oxford dictionaries exercise is activity
requiring physical effort carried out to
sustain or improve health and fitness
pretty general pretty general definition
their exercise from the merriam-webster
regular or repeated use of a faculty or
bodily organ bodily exertion for the
sake of developing and maintaining
physical fitness again the very broad
terms when they discharge you from the
hospital what they don't tell you is
that exercise can be something as
strenuous as running or weightlifting
CrossFit for example but as simple as
physical therapy okay
physical therapy is exercise so when you
get home from the hospital brand-new
postpartum you're not going to go and do
CrossFit
you're not going to go out for a run
it's just not possible so what are you
gonna do when you get home from having
the baby you're going to do exercises
that you would be prescribed to repair a
body part as if you're going to a
physical therapist now when I say this I
simply mean doing kegels kegels is an
exercise to repair your pelvic floor
corset zip-up is an exercise to restore
your core strength and simple abdominal
exercises to restore more core strength
now you're not gonna come home from
having a baby and go out a duper piece
that's just not doable and of course you
don't want to do any vigorous activity
because that could put more strain on
your uterus and cause more bleeding and
more problems postpartum so the next
step to figuring out what kind of
exercise we can do postpartum is to look
at the ACOG guidelines so that stands
for the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists what do
they say so let's look at what some of
the guidelines are you can follow as
soon as you get home from having this
baby you want to aim to stay active for
twenty to thirty minutes a day
you want to try simple postpartum
exercises that help strengthen major
muscle groups including the abdominals
and the back so one of the guidelines
that ACOG says is to get a hundred and
fifty minutes of aerobic activity each
week and that could be a simple walk 30
minutes a day five times a week or you
could divide them into maybe three
smaller walks three ten-minute walks
they also recommend a muscle
strengthening activities at least two
days a week now these are for your major
muscle groups arms legs and hips which
includes yoga pilates weight lifting
sit-ups push-ups Kegel exercises so how
do you know if you can start well it
says if you've had a healthy
pregnancy and a normal vaginal delivery
you should be able to start exercising
again soon after the baby is born
usually it's safe to begin exercising a
few days after giving birth or as soon
as you feel ready if you've had a
cesarean birth or other complications
ask your health care professional for
more guidelines on when it's safe to
having beginning exercise
so other than necessary umber if you do
not have a natural delivery say you had
a perineum tear then you have to take a
look at those guidelines and take a look
at what can actually be comfortable and
be done depending on your status okay
so there are other complications that
women might have that exercise might not
be good for so you really have to take
into account what body parts you are
actually working out what you're doing
and how that affects maybe your specific
issue that you might have so some of the
exercise that I do immediately after
postpartum well not immediately 72 hours
that's when I start my window and that's
where I've started my research and my
workout plan umm I immediately start
doing kegels of course that zip up some
Pilates moves and walking also some
stretching so there are very simple
exercises these exercises can take you
anywhere from 30 minutes up to an hour
depending on how much you stretch it out
how fast or slow you want to go so down
below I'm gonna give you a link and this
link will talk about the different parts
and why you exercise those after
delivering your baby now if you're ready
to move on here you can click here and
this will be a postpartum workout that
you can follow along with me if you have
any questions about postpartum and what
you should or shouldn't do I definitely
advise you to ask a healthcare
professional but you're also welcome to
write in the comments below this will be
my third go-around of repairing my body
after having a baby but before you even
start your exercises you
definitely definitely need to do a
diastasis check so you can click right
here to do a diastasis check and of
course all the links to all these other
videos will be in the description of box
below I hope this was helpful for you
overall so now you know basic guidelines
on when you should start exercising
after having your baby as always stay
positive work hard and God bless Mahalo
for joining me
Aloha if you're ready to move on to your
workout you can click right here to do
your diastasis check before you start
working out and then if you're ready or
if you've done that already then you can
click below right here to get your
workout on welcome to the journey and
believe me you will get your body back
and don't mind the hallway right now as
the garage gym is getting reset up yes
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