Dianne Edmonds, Physiotherapist and founder of The Pregnancy Centre talks to health and fitness professionals who work with pregnant and postnatal women to explore issues that affect postnatal return to fitness and running.
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How nutrition plays a huge part in the menopause journey with Dr Linia Patel
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In our latest podcast, FitPro’s Jane Waller chats to our popular author, Linia Patel, as they discuss the reasons why nutrition plays a huge part in the menopause journey. Linia explains the actual stages of menopause and how they are affected by many factors, including nutrition, and how by making the right choices you can better manage symptoms. …
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Episode 62: Revisiting Breathing as a Desert Island Exercise with Carrie Hall PT
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In this podcast we revisit talking about Breathing as a Desert Island Exercise with Carrie Hall, previously a guest in episodes 48 and 50. Carrie highlights the benefits of breathing as an exercise on multiple areas of the body, and runs through some practical ways to firstly become aware of your own breathing pattern, which she gives individual cu…
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This is an introduction to what is called Pregnancy Abdominal Bracing, with a short story about how one pregnant mum had less round ligament pain when walking once she learned how to do this exercise. One of the purposes of learning pregnancy abdominal bracing is to support the weight of the uterus as your baby or babies grow during your pregnancy.…
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Episode 60: Does Your Pelvic Floor Go Up or Down?
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Studies have shown that not all women will do their pelvic floor exercises effectively, and in fact, sometimes the muscles have been shown to be going down, instead of up, for some women. As you can't see your pelvic floor muscles, it can be hard to tell, so when it is possible, seeking further advice from a pelvic health physiotherapist, especiall…
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Often postnatal mums when asked to stand on one leg or test a lunge out for the first time, are surprised at how wobbly or unsteady they feel. As a starting point, gaining awareness, either during your pregnancy or after the birth, of your pelvis position is one step towards postnatal returning to fitness and running. One of my friends who returned…
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Episode 58: Preferential Recruitment. What is it?
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In this solo podcast episode, Dianne talks about the term Preferential Recruitment. Preferential recruitment suggests that when you are lying down on your back to do a sit up or curl up, the rectus abdominis muscles, especially the upper segments, will work "preferentially" when you lift your head up. This is a term Dianne first heard over 20 years…
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Episode 57: Postnatal Tension Releases using a Breathing Out Focus
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After a summer pause break, Dianne returns with some solo podcasts to give practical tips for instant use. Being a Mum often means that you need to be in a state of awareness and alertness on what's going on in your family with your children and / or baby, a lot of the day. Daily stressors can build up and last year in a podcast with Dr Cate Howell…
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Episode 56: How to be a 'cycle breaker' in your parenting with Mindfulness at Play, with Psychologist Angela North
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Angela North joins Dianne for a second podcast about Mindfulness at Play: Parenting healthy, happy children with old wisdom and new science, a book co-written with Dr Stephen McKenzie, published by Exisle Publishing in 2023. With 30 years of experience working with children, adolescents and their families, Angela employs play therapy, and is passio…
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Episode 55: The first 40 postnatal days impact the next 40 years - with Kate from The Mamas Alchemist
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In this podcast Kate Thomson from The Mamas Alchemist talks about how in her role as a Registered Midwife and a Chinese Medical Practitioner, she supports women holistically during their pregnancy and after the birth. In Chinese Medicine, the first 40 days after the birth are considered to impact the next 40 years of a mother’s life. Honoring the v…
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Episode 54: The Flourishing Woman - A mental health and wellbeing guide with Dr Cate Howell
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Dr Cate Howell talks about her new book The Flourishing Woman - A mental health and well being guide, recently published by Exisle Publishing. Dr Cate Howell is a GP, therapist, researcher, educator and author with over 40 years of training and experience in the health sphere. She is passionate about the areas of mental health, wellbeing and counse…
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Episode 53: Mindfulness at Play with Psychologist Angela North
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Parenting affects every element of our lives, and in this podcast Psychologist and author Angela North, gives insights into how mindfulness can lighten the load of being a parent. Angela North and Dr Stephen McKenzie have written the book Mindfulness at Play: Parenting healthy, happy children with old wisdom and new science, recently published by E…
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Episode 52: Untethered with Nathan James Thomas
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This is a podcast that takes a deviation from our usual focus, and explores the book Untethered, Living the digital nomad life in an uncertain world, as Dianne talks to the author Nathan James Thomas. Untethered was published earlier this year, by Exisle Publishing. Nathan James Thomas bought a ticket for 20,000 kilometres on the Greyhound Bus netw…
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Episode 51: Posture and Your Voice with Dr Abby Halpin, PT
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Dr Abby Halpin is a Physical Therapist and Coach, and runs Forte Performance and Physical Therapy. Abby helps musicians, instrumentalists and performers feel and sound their best. She also works with athletes. With a doctorate in physical therapy and 13 years of clinical experience as a PT and personal trainer, Abby has carved out her path to inclu…
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Dr Linia Patel has a BSc degree in biochemistry and physiology and has recently achieved a PhD in public health. Linia is a leading dietitian and sports nutritionist. Her passion is translating nutritional science into easy-to-digest and practical advice.By FitPro
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Episode 50: Breathing as My Desert Island Exercise with Carrie Hall PT, Part 2 of 2
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In this Part 2 of the podcast with Carrie Hall, Carrie goes through the breathing cycle of inspiration and expiration, and how you can become aware of feeling your rib expansion in 360 degrees directions, to the front, sides and back parts of your ribs. She explains how the diaphragm moves downwards, and when the pelvic floor is functioning normall…
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Episode 49: Returning to Running for Postnatal Mums with Physiotherapist Rebecca Sabine
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In this podcast Physiotherapist Rebecca Sabine talks about issues affecting postnatal return to running and how having a plan that targets the specific needs of your body helps as you return to running and exercise after having a baby or children. Rebecca (Beck) is a Women’s, Men’s and Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist (APA titled) with a special intere…
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Episode 48: Breathing as My Desert Island Exercise with Carrie Hall PT, Part 1 of 2.
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Carrie Hall has been a physical therapist since 1983, earning her undergraduate degree from Saint Louis University and graduate degree from Washington University in Saint Louis. Her philosophical approach toward physical therapy is founded in the movement system approach as developed by Dr Shirley Sahrmann, Pt, PhD, who became Carrie's long time me…
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Adam Daniel - Business Mastery - Episode 3.
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In this episode Adam explores how to grow your community, nurture your network and how to master a growth mindset.A little bit about Adam...Adam Daniel is an accomplished sportsman, fitness entrepreneur and a Performance and Personal Impact Coach with an innate desire to see individuals, teams and businesses truly thrive. He has developed and deliv…
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Tools you can use with your pregnant clients - Dianne Edmonds chats to Teresa Wheatley
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There is a deeper need for pregnant women to be able to cope with stressors in their pregnancy, as they approach labour and birth and afterwards. Dianne explains how fitness professionals can have a role within this exciting journey.Here's the link mentioned in the podcast:https://thepregnancycentre.libsyn.com/episode-33-a-5-minute-moment-with-chan…
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Episode 47: UP Mums Holistic Postnatal Program with Paula Hindle
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Paula Hindle Cofounded Unlocking Her Potential with Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer Libby Trickett and joins Dianne to discuss their UP Mums Holistic Postnatal Program. Paula is an Holistic Physio and Women's Health coach and Yoga teacher. Through the UP Mums Program Libby and Paula aim to provide a supportive community through their facebook members…
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Episode 46: Pregnancy and Postnatal Core Rehab with Kelly Dean from The Tummy Team
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Kelly Dean is the founder of The Tummy Team and a Physical Therapist with over 25 years of experience. Through finding out how to heal and recover from her own 6 finger diastasis (abdominal muscle separation), Kelly created functional core rehab programs as well as having one to one client appointments that are available internationally. In this po…
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Episode 45: Emotional Fitness for Parents with Coach David Greenwalt
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David Greenwalt is a Certified Health Coach, fitness expert and author. In 1997 he discovered an evidence-based approach for getting off his own 50 excess pounds and keeping it off for 25 years. Since 1999, through his company Leanness Lifestyle University, David has been helping student members, from every walk of life, lose excess fat and keep th…
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Episode 44: Could Earlier Postnatal Check-ups Be the Way of the Future? With Taryn Watson
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Taryn Watson is a Women's Health Physiotherapist and one of the Directors of Fitright HQ in Applecross, WA, which is a Centre for Women's Health and Exercise. In this podcast Taryn talks with Dianne about what got her thinking about postnatal checks with physiotherapists and the many benefits of these being earlier 6 weeks. She explores why it is t…
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Episode 43: From Pregnancy to Postnatal Self Care Changes with Alex Phillips
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Alex Phillips is the co-Founder of Saint Belford and the Host of the Saint Belford podcast. She talks with Dianne about how self-care practices change with the different seasons of life, including during pregnancy and along the postnatal journey. What you put in your self-care toolkit can be adjusted over time, together with your habits and rituals…
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TRX update and insights with Nathan D’Rozario
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With so many exciting developments going on at TRX we thought it was time to have another catch up with Nathan. We talk about the latest TRX news... with a load of exciting developments thrown in for good measure. Nathan also shares some insights on the industry and his successful career.Also, don't forget to check out their education.A little bit …
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Business Mastery with Adam Daniel – Episode 1: The Fundamentals of Business
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When Adam Daniel suggested we ran a four-part series covering the fundamentals of business and how to grow one - we jumped at the chance.Adam is a renowned and highly respected educator – he has a way of making education truly stick. Learn how to have a thriving career whilst building a successful and sustainable business.We discuss:✅ Defining Your…
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Episode 42: Postnatal Aqua Fitness with Marietta Mehanni
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Marietta Mehanni has had a passion for group fitness for over 30 years and has a range of aqua education and mentoring services for fitness professionals. In this podcast Marietta talks about the many benefits of exercising in the water for, both in a group fitness setting and when you are in the pool doing your own program. She talks about the var…
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Episode 41: Bump Health and Fitness with Calum Wilson
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Calum Wilson is the co-owner of BUMP Health and Fitness, which offers mothers and expectant mothers a supportive fitness community which is purpose built to cater for the pre or postnatal fitness journey. Currently based in Sydney, BUMP offers carefully considered classes which can be tailored to any stage of pre or post pregnancy or indeed any fit…
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Episode 40: Wisdom from the journey with Paula Hindle
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Paula Hindle is the Cofounder of Unlocking Her Potential, an Integrative Women’s Health coach, Physiotherapist, trained in Exercise Science and a Yoga teacher. In this podcast Paula talks about how Unlocking Her Potential came from her following promptings to step up and play big. She shares parts of her story in the journey she has been on, before…
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Episode 39: Taking a Step back – Returning to Step postnatally with Marietta Mehanni
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Marietta Mehanni has over 30 years of experience in teaching group fitness and is an international presenter, presenting at fitness conferences all over the globe. In this episode she talks with Dianne about elements of postnatal fitness when returning to Step in the postnatal months, usually after at least 6 - 8 weeks following the birth. Marietta…
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Episode 38: Lara Jezeph - My Postnatal Recovery Journey
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Lara Jezeph is a Pre and Postnatal Trainer at Virtual PT based in South Australia who experienced a traumatic birth and a difficult postpartum journey. Lara sought out help and support from a range of professionals on her healing journey and she now empowers mums during and after pregnancy. Her mission is to give mums the support and care that they…
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Episode 37: Pregnancy Relaxation and Visualisation for Labour
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This solo episode with Dianne is a form of pregnancy relaxation with a focus on an easy breath out, gently moving the body away from a position of tension into what is called a "position of ease", where key phrases can be used in any position when you are in labour. By practicing during pregnancy it can be easier to use during labour. A "simple" co…
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Episode 36: Training for the Sport of Motherhood with Clare Hozack
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Clare Hozack from IntoYou in the northern beaches of Sydney, NSW, brings her athletic background into women’s training, where she and her team approach motherhood like a sport. Clare discusses how the repetitive tasks of parenthood are trainable. Training can be modified to empower women while considering the areas of the body that are recovering f…
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Episode 35: With Mags O'Leary PT, Strong from the Inside Out Women's Fitness
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Mags O’Leary runs Strong from the Inside Out Women's Fitness in Adelaide, SA. Mags works with women to inspire and empower them, having become a Personal Trainer in her quest to find out how to train in the ways she needed, after a difficult postnatal recovery journey. She talks about her story, and some of the unexpected complications that she exp…
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Episode 34: Returning to Exercise and Running Safely for Postnatal Mums with Amy Mitchell and Laura Hill
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Amy Mitchell and Laura Hill talk about the graded return to postnatal fitness and running. Amy is a women’s health and fitness coach from Goddess Outdoor Fitness and Laura is a women’s health physiotherapist at iMove Physiotherapy and The Running Room. Both work in Rozelle, in Sydney, NSW. Amy speaks about some of the lessons she learned from her o…
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Episode 33: A 5 Minute Moment with Chantal Traub
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Chantal Traub is a top New York City birth facilitator, doula, childbirth educator and a Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach with 20 plus years of practice. In this 5 Minute Moment with Chantal, you can practice several of the breathing and pelvic floor visualisations with her. In the full length episode 32, Optimize your Birth with Chantal T…
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Episode 32: Optimize your Birth with Chantal Traub
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Chantal Traub is a top New York City birth facilitator, doula, childbirth educator and a Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach with 20 plus years of practice. She discusses with Dianne some of the ways she helps pregnant people prepare for birth, through posture, alignment and body-based movement, developing mindfulness practices during pregnan…
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Episode 31: mSwing as a Master Calming Switch
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This short clip is from the full length Episode 30 on the Parasympathetic Benefits of mSwing where Marietta Mehanni talks about how mSwing movement patterns can enhance and improve athletic movement patterns, so when a postnatal mum isn't back to her sport yet, she can still gain improvements. Dianne talks about how the patterns of movement in mSwi…
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Episode 30: The Parasympathetic Benefits of mSwing with Marietta Mehanni
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This episode explores how mSwing can help bring calming effects to the nervous system through a number of its benefits, some of which have been experienced by Dianne, podcast host. Marietta Mehanni is a fitness educator and international presenter and co-created mSwing with Physiotherapist Mark Davis. There are so many benefits to mSwing, using 1 d…
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Nutritional Considerations For The FitPro with Dr Linia Patel
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Catching a meal on the run between clients or sessions? Want to know what you can eat on the go? Are protein bars 'good choices' for a fitpro? How do we make sure 'healthy eating' doesn't spiral in to disordered eating? How can you as the fitpro recognise this in yourself or your clients?FitPro’s Jane Waller, speaks to leading dietician and sports …
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Episode 29: Restoring the rhythm of breathing with mSwing - with Marietta Mehanni
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In this 5 Minute Matters episode Marietta Mehanni talks with Dianne Edmonds about her personal experience with mSwing and how it can help to restore the rhythm of breathing in our body. Marietta is a fitness educator and international presenter from Melbourne Australia and was Australian fitness presenter of the year in 2018 and 2016 NZ Educator of…
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Episode 28: Prioritising movement higher - mSwing with Marietta Mehanni
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In the second of our 5 Minute Matters episodes, Marietta Mehanni outlines her thoughts on how movement needs to be higher up in our priorities. mSwing is a tool than be used in 1 or 2 minutes, 5 to 10 minutes through to 20 to 30 minutes to give powerful benefits. Marietta is a fitness educator and international presenter and co-created mSwing with …
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Episode 27: 5 Minutes on mSwing with Marietta Mehanni
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In the first of our 5 Minute Matters episodes, Marietta Mehanni highlights some powerful benefits of mSwing, which she co-created with Physiotherapist Mark Davis. Marietta is a fitness educator and international presenter and in the full first episode (24) she discusses the many benefits of mSwing which uses a single dumbbell and replicates a lot o…
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Episode 26: Taking a pro-active approach during pregnancy with Sophie Villeneuve
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Sophie Villeneuve from Beyond Birthing talks with Dianne about taking a pro- active approach during pregnancy to help with postnatal recovery. Sophie is a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist from Canada and shares her insights and expertise including what she is doing during her own pregnancy as she prepares for the birth of her first baby. She is passio…
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Episode 25: Early Caesarian Recovery with Marianne Ryan
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Marianne Ryan is a Physical Therapist from New York and the author of the Baby Bod book and creator of Baby Bod program for Postpartum women. She talks to Dianne about some of her early advice for postpartum mums after having a caesarean or C section, including ways to move comfortably, getting support and scar tissue massage techniques. Find Maria…
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Episode 24: mSwing for Postnatal Mums with Marietta Mehanni
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Marietta Mehanni is a fitness educator, international presenter, and the co creator of mSwing and is from Melbourne, Australia. Marietta and Dianne discuss the many benefits of mSwing for postnatal mums, including how using it for even 2 – 3 minutes helps you to feel calmer, more alert and move with more fluidity and flow. mSwing uses a single dumb…
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Episode 23: Pelvic Floor Equipment with Physiotherapist Fiona Rogers
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Fiona Rogers from Pelvic Floor Exercise talks with Dianne about pelvic floor equipment that could enhance the recovery of the pelvic floor for some postnatal mums. She highlights taking the time needed to “let yourself heal” following pregnancy and childbirth and gives advice on getting back to activity during this special time. Using her recent pe…
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Episode 22: Postnatal return to boxing with Sam Kirker
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Sam Kirker from Iron Sistas Personal Training in Newman WA, talks with Dianne about some of the things postnatal mums can focus on during their recovery, to help them prepare for returning to boxing. She talks about pelvic floor and postnatal core training tips plus covers some stretches and foam rolling ideas to help regain movement patterns ready…
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Episode 21: Postnatal return to fitness and running with Michelle Kenway
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To launch Season 3 Dianne talks to Michelle Kenway from Brisbane in Queensland about postnatal fitness, where Michelle shares her return to running advice. Michelle is a Physiotherapist and author of the international bestselling Inside Out series of books and DVDs. She founded Pelvic Exercises to help women access quality information about exercis…
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The Link Between Stress and Back Pain with Justin Price
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Mental and emotional stress causes physical changes to the body. Often these changes lead to short and long term back pain. Listen as Justin Price, creator of The BioMechanics Method Corrective Exercise Specialist certification, explains how stress can cause back pain and stay tuned for exercises that target musculoskeletal discomfort caused by str…
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