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Surviving60
May 29, 2012 - 8:06am
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PP setback
Hi busymama - I'm not the post-partum guru, but you sound like you've been pushing the limits at only 10 weeks. Are the gym visits really necessary, with all that you have going on just caring for your brood and cultivating WW ways? Are you doing that stairstepper in perfect WW posture, I hope? Setbacks are normal and you can't allow them to discourage you. This one might be trying to tell you to slow down. Work on the basics. If you are going to exercise right now, then yes, WW routines will gently work the right stuff. Take it easy! Keep that belly relaxed and chest pulled up in ALL that you do. Walking is great, done correctly.
louiseds
May 30, 2012 - 7:02am
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exercises
Hi Busymama
The exercise are to strengthen your whole body.This makes it easier to stay in WW posture and extends the range of movement of all your muscles. Your pelvic floor (wall) muscles will become stronger by themselves if you keep to using your body in WW posture.
The gym work may be making you stronger, but remember that your body took 9 months to grow to accommodate your baby, so it is going to take at least that to shrink back on the inside, no matter what your body looks like on the outside. Going at the exercise really hard is not going to make your body revert any quicker.
Ten weeks pp is around the time many Moms start to feel really prolapsey, so you may have to wait until at least six months until you start to experience real improvement. That's just the way it happens. We don't know why. You just have to be patient and trust your body. After that, the improvements will continue until about 2 years pp.
Louise
busymama
May 30, 2012 - 9:41am
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Okay.. you ladies are right.
Okay.. you ladies are right. I might as well slow down and just slowly ease back into things! I am anxious to recieve the dvd. When I have been doing the ww posture I have noticed hip pain so i looked in the search forum and noticed others do to. I have always had my feet turn out when I walk and now that i am trying to correct it, it must be making the hips a little sore.
Surviving60
May 30, 2012 - 10:07am
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The hips
Busymama, I simply cannot describe the joy I felt, sometime in this, my second year of WW work, when I realized that the posture had truly become second nature and that my torso actually felt like it was "seated" properly over my hip joints for the first time in my life. Protecting the hip joints is a really huge part of what this work is all about. I'm not surprised about the hip soreness some people get at the beginning, but it's just like anything that's new and working unfamiliar muscles. You are young and newly PP, which I can't relate to directly, but I can imagine that aspect adds some extra challenges. Take it easy, this is going to make a huge difference down the road even if you aren't quite feelin' it yet!