What you can do about your posture as a new mum
One thing is certain: your posture will be affected by the baby growing in your tummy. As the baby grows and gets heavier, your pelvis has a tendency to tilt…
How to interpret the figure you see on the scales
You get up in the morning, have a wee and do a number 2. You stand on the scales, and they show a GAIN of 1.5 kg. What?! You know…
The role of diet in healing abdominal separation
So much is said about special types of exercise that can help close an abdominal separation (diastasis recti) and improve core strength, but there is no mention at all about…
Underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism): Advice on nutrition and exercise
You eat incredibly healthily and wear yourself out in the gym. And yet there are no noticeable results. Your story may look like this: You eat 1,500 calories per day,…
Become stronger with Progressive overload
If you want to become stronger and see results from your exercise regime, it’s important to focus on progressive overload (one of the principles of strength training). This means overloading…
Exercise less – but more efficiently
We’re trying to adapt our exercise and our diet to our lives, aren’t we? According to how we live, our social activities, our children’s timetable, our working hours, etc. Of…
Caesarean birth guide, part 4: how to get back into exercise
Before getting back into exercise after having major abdominal surgery (because that’s exactly what a C-section is!) – you need to take certain recovery phases into account. The scar from…
PCOS part 2: The exercise
The first PCOS article was about what you should eat to get your hormones under control – and now we’re going to talk about exercise. That’s because exercise, or rather the right…
Common physical symptoms after pregnancy
It takes time for your body to get back to its old self after pregnancy and childbirth, and it may never get back to its old self completely, but you…