217 | Understanding Fitness Before, During and After Pregnancy with Gina Conley
Welcome to Episode 217 of The Optimal Body Podcast
Understanding Fitness Before, During and After Pregnancy with Gina Conley
Movement and exercise is vital during pregnancy, but how informed do you feel? We’re bringing you this interview with Gina Conley to discuss lifting during pregnancy, as well as birthing positions. Gina explains her passion for pregnancy- specific exercise education as she felt uninformed during her pregnancy experiences. Then, she dives into the shifts that may occur between exercising in trimesters 1, 2, and 3, what to look out for, and how to optimize your training in each trimesters. Furthermore, she explains the importance of pelvic stability exercises and how a HIIT-lover may begin to approach their training while being pregnant. Finally, Gina provides insight into birthing positions, it’s relationship with epidurals, what contributed to stalling labours, and how supporting figures can support a pregnant women’s experience optimally! Let’s dive in!
What you will learn in this interview with Gina Conley
3:20 – What inspired Gina’s interests in fitness for pregnancy
7:27 – What was missing from Gina’s experience with pregnancy?
14:35 – Lifting & exercise during the 1st and 2nd trimester
17:44 – Lifting during the 3rd trimester
22:17 – Pelvic stability exercises for connective tissue slings
26:06 – HIIT Training during pregnancy
31:11 – Do you need to birth on your back?
32:25 – What contributes to a prolonged labor?
34:40 – Gina’s programs
35;30 – How birthing positions change with an epidural?
39:17 – Supporting through pregnancy
45:26 – Gina’s words of wisdom on birthing
About Gina Conley
Gina Conley is the founder of MamasteFit, a company that specializes in childbirth education and pre/postnatal fitness training. Gina has her masters in exercise science and birth doula certification. She is the head coach for MamasteFit, and exclusively trains in person and online fitness clients during their pregnancies and as they return to fitness in the postpartum. Gina is a mom to two little ones, with one on the way in September. She is an Army veteran and currently a military spouse. Her and her family live in North Carolina, where they operate their fitness training facility, MamasteFit.
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