One exercise many moms like to get back doing after having a baby is planks.
You either love them of you hate them! Or maybe it’s a Love-hate relationship that you’ve got with core exercises!
Either way, if you want to get back to doing planks again, I DO NOT RECOMMEND that you go into a full frontal plank like you did before pregnancy.
Why?
2 Reasons
1.Because you need to retrain and restrengthen your deep core for some time before getting back into challenging exercise like planks. Remember from this video, I’m talking about your TA (Transverse Abdominis) muscle not your 6 pack ab muscles) It’s only with activating this deep core powerhouse that you will be able to do a plank without feeling pain in your low back muscles.
2. Because planks put a lot of downward pressure onto your linea alba – that’s the connective tissue in the midline of your stomach between your two recti muscles. If you’re doing work to fix your diastasis recti (aka abdominal separation) then doing planks puts more unwanted pressure onto this already weakened connective tissue.
So in this video I’ll show you how to safely work back up to doing planks again, even if you have diastasis recti.
I guarantee there is a plank progression in this video that will be acceptable for you in your body.
Watch the video here to learn how to get back to doing planks after baby even if you’re healing diastasis recti.
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