🤰Should Your Train Your Abs During Pregnancy?

Can using them make diastasis recti worse? Could activating your core harm your baby in any way?

👉In this episode, Marianne breaks down the facts about abdominal training during pregnancy—what's safe, what’s beneficial, and what to avoid.

The challenges to our abdominal wall during pregnancy go beyond just abdominal separation (diastasis recti).

They also involve how our brain connects to these supportingtissues.

Marianne uses two main analogies, the chewing-gum and the foreign language, to help you grasp these concepts and feel more at ease about training your deep abdominals during those 9 months!

• 00:39 What is Diastasis Recti?
• 02:03 Why Sit-Ups are not a Great Idea During Pregnancy 
• 03:50 What are Core Reflexes? The “Brain-Stomach” Connection
• 07:30 6-pack, Obliques, Deep Abs: Do we Train them All?
• 12:47 No, Activating your Deep Abdominals Won’t Hurt your Baby

Rather than focusing on surface-level strength, this episodeexplains why deep, stabilising, and reflexive core engagement matters more than ever during pregnancy.

Next week, Marianne will cover Pelvic Floor Training duringPregnancy in a similar fashion so you leave with practical insights into what your core craves whilst you are expecting.

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Marianne Tafani is a perinatal exercise specialist. She hastrained 2,100 new and expecting mothers to date. The advice provided in this episode is the result of years of clinical expertise confronted with existing women’s health research and knowledge of functional anatomy and neuroanatomy.

These tips are not meant to replace an appointment with a women’s health physiotherapist for tailored and medical guidance.