Episode 129

129. Prenatal Pilates is just Pilates, with Hailey Hawkins and Raphael Bender

There is a persistent myth in the Pilates world that prenatal Pilates needs to be gentle, safe, highly modified and complicated. But this is not true…

Resources mentioned in the episode:

  • Find out about the Clinical Certification here
  • Connect with Hailey Hawkins here
  • Check out some of Hailey's Instagram posts here and here and here and here
  • ACSM guidelines here
  • ACOG guidelines here
  • No relationship between relaxin levels and pelvic pain here
  • The Sacroiliac joint moves 0.2 degrees in women diagnosed with pelvic instability here
  • Instead the intensity of fear-avoidance beliefs predicts pelvic pain here
  • During a curl up diastasis gets smaller here
  • Ab strengthening during pregnancy reduces diastasis here
  • Curl-ups reduce diastasis here

Learn more here.

Mentioned in this episode:

Book your Clinical Exercise Specialist Program call or risk missing out forever here - https://breathe-education.com/clinical-cert-close-out/

Book your Clinical Exercise Specialist Program call or risk missing out forever here - https://breathe-education.com/clinical-cert-close-out/



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