Fitness for Mums - Vix's Response

Mum Zone's resident Professional Fitness Specialist Vix of Mama Moves is available to answer some of your questions about fitness.

Topics include: Getting back your pre baby body, weight loss, toning and defining, body shaping, improved fitness, general wellbeing, hormonal balancing, increased strength and fitness, improvement or elimination of urinary incontinence, reduction in the size of diastasis recti, making the abdomen more stable, reduction or elimination of lower back pain, improved energy levels, decreased anxiety and stress levels, greater ability to carry out daily activities eg. lifting bub and more.

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Reader's Question

How to get rid of baby tummy flab? Situps and walking don't seem to be getting it done. Do you ever get rid of it all? This is my third baby but he was the biggest and did the most damage, the other two I got back very quickly. Please help - driving me nuts...

Vix's Response

The extra skin that seems to stay behind well after the bub is born is definitely a hard one to completely get rid of... but you can definitely do more effective exercises than the ones you mentioned. If you read my answer to question number 8, it applies to you also.

It is a combo of diet, cardio and resistance training, which will indirectly tighten and strengthen your abdominal area while you are exercising. Strengthening your core (the deeper layers of the abdominals) will also help to pull in your tummy and keep it strong. The best exercises for core strength are pilates based floor work such as single leg extensions, plank on your forearms and opposite arm and leg reaches on all fours.

VIX

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