Core Strengthening: Expert Tips for Postpartum Recovery and Beyond

Journalist 1: Three is pretty cool. We said yoga, but it’s really about core strengthening yoga. It focuses on function over fit. That’s called Restore Your Core^®, and the deal is this program has been a game-changer for a lot of women suffering from postpartum conditions. And Megan and Sam don’t have kids.

Journalist 2: We didn’t give birth, but we have been through the whole process. We understand that there’s that. So we’re auditing this class so that we can, you know, go home and tell our wives what’s going on, but we have to do that delicately.

Journalist 1: We absolutely do. Well, there’s a whole art in that. But they’re gonna be holding a live workshop this weekend. For more details, you can go to their site rather, and that’s restoreyourcore.com. No weird spellings or anything, and they’re so exactly as I said. Yeah, tell us Lauren, please.

Lauren: Okay, so Restore Your Core^® is an online exercise program that is taught both online and in person, as you said, for people with core and pelvic floor issues, which can manifest as back pain even if you work out all the time, leaking urine when you run–

Journalist 2: I know that. No, it’s– you know, it is. It’s totally something that you go over in the baby classes though. It happens all the time. Actually, tons and tons of women deal with this.

Lauren: As well as just this general feeling of disconnect in the core. What I hear often is, “I feel like I’m working out all the time and it’s never making the difference.”

Journalist 1: That’s right, that’s right. And that’s one of the most common symptoms for this abdominal separation that we deal with. So is it a program? Is it a class? Is it all of it?

Global Core Strengthening Method

Lauren: It’s an online program, it’s a method, it’s taught in person. We teach it on four continents around the world, from India, Australia–

Journalist 2: And you definitely know all about it. Restore Your Core®, it says right– Let’s hear the potentials, the teaching credentials. Yes, you had the kiddos, right?

Lauren: I’ve had three kids. Yeah, I had three kids in three years. I’ve been teaching for 20 years. I’ve been teaching–

Journalist 2: Yeah, I know, right? Yeah, I know, I know, which is amazing.

Journalist 1: 25, and so do the math. All right, well, show a little bit of what goes into this.

Core Strengthening Demonstration

Lauren: So I want to show you– You’re hopping on the mat?

Journalist 2: I want to show you my– No, no.

Lauren: Okay, then I’m going to show you a core– Yes, and what you’re gonna do is take this into every single workout you do.

Journalist 2: Okay, and you’re gonna show it to your wife as she does her workouts too?

Lauren: 100%.

Journalist 2: I understand. She’s got a perfect– I was noting very lightly. It’s more of a suggestion of the Italian– I understand you’re not gonna get down.

Journalist 1: I am not, no. I got cream cheese.

Lauren: Bend your knees and place your feet on the floor. Okay, here’s the no. Okay, the no-no. Put your hands on your belly. Lift both head legs off the floor. Did you feel your abdominals protrude into your hand a little bit?

Journalist 2: Did you see? I didn’t look like it. Looked like he was just pushing his butt to the ground.

Lauren: It’s hard because there’s a lot of doughiness going– They shouldn’t be doing that.

Journalist 2: Oh, okay. That doesn’t– No, that. So what should we do then?

Core Breathing and Control

Lauren: Okay, so you’re gonna– Don’t do anything yet. Okay, take a breath with a hundred candles and you’re gonna slow the exhale out out your mouth. Slow pull your abdominals in, in, in. Good. Don’t do anything. Do it again. Put your hands on your stomach though. Do that candle blowing again. Blow, blow, blow. Abdominals go in. Now lift one leg up, just one leg. Okay, good. Bring your knee closer to your chest. The ass– Take a breath. Inhale, exhale. Do the candles. Pull your belly in, in, in, in. Don’t let it protrude. Lift your leg up. Don’t let your– Yeah, take a breath. Inhale, exhale. Blow up candle. Slow, slow, slow. Pull your belly in, in, in.

Journalist 1: So Lauren, does he have it?

Lauren: I want you to feel–

Journalist 2: I feel like going in versus going out.

Lauren: That’s right. It’s about going in, and I want you– And imagine a postpartum body now, someone who just gave birth.

Journalist 2: Yeah, well, they’re three months, three years, ten years–

Lauren: It would look like this.

Journalist 1: Lauren, thank you very much. What’s this? Out of time. Please tell us the website again.

Lauren: restoreyourcore.com Keep your abdominals drawing in on that candle exhale.

Journalist 1: Had to break a key watching Kirk nail his postpartum body.

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