Pilates for Pregnancy

Pilates for Pregnancy is a straight talking, woman-to-woman exercise guide, focusing on pelvic floor and core strength, to improve your health, mood and energy during pregnancy.

Clear, step-by-step Pilates exercises, tailored for the demands of each trimester, show you how to:

• improve your posture as your bump grows
• protect your back - especially when lifting older children
  
  • optimise the position of your baby for a better birth experience
• help you release tension and create a positive mindset for birth
• reconnect and restore your core postnatally, focusing on your pelvic floor muscles - including for Caesarean recovery.

You'll find helpful advice and motivational tips from mums throughout, explaining how much Pilates improved their strength, birth experience and postnatal recovery, to help you prepare physically and mentally for your new arrival.

Autorentext

Anya Hayes is a Body Control Pilates instructor with advanced pregnancy and postnatal training, including Pilates for caesarean recovery. She has published several books, including Get Started: Pilates and *Pregnancy: The Naked Truth*.

Klappentext

Pilates for Pregnancy covers the fundamentals of Pilates and includes a progressive Pilates programme tailored for each trimester - focusing on pelvic floor and abdominal strength, posture and health & fitness. Anya Hayes' insightful exercise guide will help you conquer the physical and mental stresses of pregnancy and improve your pregnancy health, mood and energy.

This is a straight talking, woman-to-woman pregnancy fitness guide with a difference.

Showing you:
· how to optimize the position of your baby for a better birth experience;
· how to avoid succumbing to the 'pregnancy waddle' and protect your back as your bump grows;
· how to deal with second pregnancy posture while knackered and running after/constantly lifting a toddler;
· how to minimize the trials of pregnancy on your abdominals, pelvic floor and mind;
· how to get into the right mindset for a positive labour, and release tension postnatally;
· exactly what cardio exercise is safe and beneficial to you and your bump, and what you should avoid.