Prepare for Birth or Train Postpartum
You are about to have your body partake in the most physically demanding event of your life — are you physically prepared for it?
I don’t mean whether you have been running and using the elliptical. Those things are not going to help your entire body to contract every muscle in an effort to birth a baby.
I mean...
Epidurals and c-sections are at an all-time high.
While we value them for the service they provide someone in need, we may be using them more than necessary.
The only way to be strong is to focus on strength training. Not using other exercise to get strong but putting the priority on directly developing muscle through strength training.
However, there’s a right way to get strong and a wrong way — especially during pregnancy or postpartum.
It’s very easy to get hurt when the body is physically shaped in a way that puts the body out of balance. It’s also too easy to get hurt when your body is more vulnerable and you don’t know what you’re doing or your trainer, despite their best intentions, simply doesn’t have the correct equipment to keep you safe.
With Clinical Strength Training, we take a clinical approach to strengthening the body. We use medical-grade equipment. That means our equipment can be used for both fitness and rehabilitation. If it can be used for rehabilitation that means it’s engineered in a way to keep you safe and support your body to reach your health goals.
I don’t mean whether you have been running and using the elliptical. Those things are not going to help your entire body to contract every muscle in an effort to birth a baby.
I mean...
- Is your body strong?
- Can you support 12+ hours of labor and have the endurance to get to the end?
Epidurals and c-sections are at an all-time high.
While we value them for the service they provide someone in need, we may be using them more than necessary.
- Is it possible that if every woman’s body were as strong as it needed to be, we might avoid some surgeries?
- Might women be more equipped to handle contractions when they have muscle taking impact of those contractions?
The only way to be strong is to focus on strength training. Not using other exercise to get strong but putting the priority on directly developing muscle through strength training.
However, there’s a right way to get strong and a wrong way — especially during pregnancy or postpartum.
It’s very easy to get hurt when the body is physically shaped in a way that puts the body out of balance. It’s also too easy to get hurt when your body is more vulnerable and you don’t know what you’re doing or your trainer, despite their best intentions, simply doesn’t have the correct equipment to keep you safe.
With Clinical Strength Training, we take a clinical approach to strengthening the body. We use medical-grade equipment. That means our equipment can be used for both fitness and rehabilitation. If it can be used for rehabilitation that means it’s engineered in a way to keep you safe and support your body to reach your health goals.