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A great core exercise that can be performed throughout your entire pregnancy (with medical clearance of course) is a side plank. This exercise targets the oblique muscles (sides of your waist).

 

  • Safe to perform during your 2nd and 3rd trimester

 

  • Beneficial during labor and deliver and of course helping you during postpartum recovery

 

  • These muscles are important during pregnancy for they not only help provide support for your core with your growing belly, but these are muscles used to help deliver your baby

 

How to perform a side plank:

 

Lie on your side on a mat. Place your forearm on the mat underneath your shoulder perpendicular to body. Place upper leg directly on top of lower leg and straighten knees and hips.

 

Place the opposite hand on your hip or to make it more challenging straighten the arm into the air.

 

Raise body upward by straightening waist. Hold position (you can count for time and challenge yourself by increasing the seconds).  Repeat on opposite side.

 

To make it a little easier, the exercise can be performed with bent knees.

 

Want a demo on how to do a side plank? Contact us!

 

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