If you just had a baby and you want nothing more than to return to your pre-baby weight, you should have a few post-pregnancy workouts in your arsenal that you can perform daily or every other day so that you can lose that weight as soon as possible. Luckily, there are many exercises out there that are not only effective in helping you lose the weight, but they're also fun and exciting. With the following tips you'll be able to supercharge that workout in order to get you back down to pre-pregnancy weight before you know it.
The Reverse Curl: A woman who has just given birth to a baby will need to do some real work to get her abs back in shape and reverse curls can really help with that. For this exercise, lie down on the floor looking up at the ceiling and bend your knees. Keep your feet on the floor near your hips, keep your arms flat and your neck relaxed and then breathe in and back out as you suck in your abs and lift your hips off of the floor. Slowly return your hips to the floor and then start over. Try to do this twenty times. If you can't do all 20 right away, work up to it. Then go for 50, etc.
Not only is this exercise good for your ab muscles and for losing the pouch, it helps you walk tall and with confidence.
Pilates: You might think pilates is slow but it will help you burn over two hundred calories every hour that you do it.
That's a lot of calories for just doing a few stretching movements. You can find moves for your workout through DVDs, online videos or even books. One of the best exercises to do after giving birth is to lie on your back and bend your knees. Place your hands behind your head and breathe in. Then contract your abs, lift your head and shoulders off of the floor and breathe back out. Then, straighten your legs so that they form a 45 degree angle while you extend your arms with your palms down. Pump your arms in a rhythmic manner and inhale over the course of five beats. Then, breathe out for five beats. If you can do 100 of these a day you'll get into shape faster than you think!
Strengthen abs and lose weight with the classic crunch. Most know that crunches simply require laying on the ground with your hands behind your head and your knees bent. Lift your head and shoulders off the floor inhale through your nose and exhale as you tighten your abs. As you do this bring the ribs towards the hips and relax the bottom. Slowly return to the starting position. At some point you'll want to do many more than you start with slowly working toward 50. Be careful not to harm yourself but after reaching 50 add some weight to increase your endurance and challenge.
These are exercises that can all be done while your baby takes a nap. Even if you have to break your workout up into a few exercises throughout the day instead of all at once, that's still better than not doing any exercise at all. You can lose your baby weight if you really want to. Thankfully, these three tips can help you quite a bit if you do them often enough.
Each of these techniques might be very useful for yourself through and right after the pregnancy period. However, if you truly want to lose weight quicker during and after the pregnancy period, then you must follow a comprehensive fat burning system that includes both exercise plan and diet regime.
Check the bottom of this page for a few recommendations.
The Reverse Curl: A woman who has just given birth to a baby will need to do some real work to get her abs back in shape and reverse curls can really help with that. For this exercise, lie down on the floor looking up at the ceiling and bend your knees. Keep your feet on the floor near your hips, keep your arms flat and your neck relaxed and then breathe in and back out as you suck in your abs and lift your hips off of the floor. Slowly return your hips to the floor and then start over. Try to do this twenty times. If you can't do all 20 right away, work up to it. Then go for 50, etc.
Not only is this exercise good for your ab muscles and for losing the pouch, it helps you walk tall and with confidence.
Pilates: You might think pilates is slow but it will help you burn over two hundred calories every hour that you do it.
That's a lot of calories for just doing a few stretching movements. You can find moves for your workout through DVDs, online videos or even books. One of the best exercises to do after giving birth is to lie on your back and bend your knees. Place your hands behind your head and breathe in. Then contract your abs, lift your head and shoulders off of the floor and breathe back out. Then, straighten your legs so that they form a 45 degree angle while you extend your arms with your palms down. Pump your arms in a rhythmic manner and inhale over the course of five beats. Then, breathe out for five beats. If you can do 100 of these a day you'll get into shape faster than you think!
Strengthen abs and lose weight with the classic crunch. Most know that crunches simply require laying on the ground with your hands behind your head and your knees bent. Lift your head and shoulders off the floor inhale through your nose and exhale as you tighten your abs. As you do this bring the ribs towards the hips and relax the bottom. Slowly return to the starting position. At some point you'll want to do many more than you start with slowly working toward 50. Be careful not to harm yourself but after reaching 50 add some weight to increase your endurance and challenge.
These are exercises that can all be done while your baby takes a nap. Even if you have to break your workout up into a few exercises throughout the day instead of all at once, that's still better than not doing any exercise at all. You can lose your baby weight if you really want to. Thankfully, these three tips can help you quite a bit if you do them often enough.
Each of these techniques might be very useful for yourself through and right after the pregnancy period. However, if you truly want to lose weight quicker during and after the pregnancy period, then you must follow a comprehensive fat burning system that includes both exercise plan and diet regime.
Check the bottom of this page for a few recommendations.