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Founder and physio/coach Kat leads your performance coaching and business modules for HATCH COACH. In this 7 minute read, she dives into how perinatal coaches can fill the gap in those early 0-6 weeks after their client has given birth, with practical tools and strategies you can use to support your clients in the first six weeks postpartum whilst sustaining your coaching business.
Learn how pregnancy impacts your core and why understanding pressure management is key to training safely through pregnancy and rebuilding postpartum
Postpartum can feel like starting from scratch—but when it comes to building your body back up, progressive strength training is where it's at. In fact, lifting might just be the most important element in your postpartum rehab.
Prioritising sleep is crucial for women's performance, hormonal balance, and recovery. Discover effective strategies to improve sleep quality amidst a busy lifestyle.
Regardless of your symptoms, here are a few exercise tips to keep you feeling great in the final stretch.
Lifting makes up a lot of what we do in CrossFit programming. We're familiar with sets and rep schemes, strength programs, progressive loading, de-loading, etc etc... but what, then, are the latest guidelines for lifting when you're pregnant?
It's time to debunk the fact from the fiction about what REALLY are the high intensity functional exercises you shouldn't do in pregnancy, and WHY.
Can you run in pregnancy? How hard can you go? And for how long? What do you need to look out for and when should you stop? You've asked for it, we've been eagerly awaiting it and it's finally here.
So what, really are the do's and don'ts for those first 12 weeks in pregnancy and is there much we should be aware of if we're the kind of person that loves to redline with frequency?