How should I exercise and keep fit after giving birth?

After giving birth, many women face the worry of losing their body shape, so postpartum fitness and weight loss become what hot moms want to do most. There are many ways to exercise. It is more appropriate to choose a more soothing exercise and fitness method after childbirth, among which yoga is the best choice. However, it should be noted that you cannot exercise after giving birth. You have to wait until the confinement period is over before exercising.

1. Baby Curl

Method: Lie on your back with your legs bent. Hold your legs with your hands, touch your forehead to your knees, and curl your body like a baby.

But please note that you can lose weight at least 6 weeks after giving birth. Because doing some weight loss exercises shortly after giving birth can easily slow down the recovery of the uterus and cause bleeding. More intense exercise will slow down the recovery of the surgical section or vulvar incision. Some joints are particularly prone to injury, and the situation for mothers who have undergone cesarean section will be even more dangerous. When a mother can enter the fitness center depends on her or his physical recovery condition. Mothers who gave birth naturally can start doing postpartum slimming exercises 4-6 weeks after delivery, while mothers who gave birth by cesarean section need 6-8 weeks.

2. V-Shape

How to do it: Sit with your arms and legs stretched out as far as possible, keeping them in a V shape.

Yoga exercises are effective for mothers to restore their body shape. Normal mothers can perform them one month after delivery according to their physical condition. Before practicing, do breathing exercises with music in the background: lie on your back with your knees bent, take a deep breath to make the abdominal wall sink and pull the internal organs upward, then exhale to move the abdomen and activate the internal organs. The following set of movements mainly targets the chest, waist, abdomen, legs and other parts after childbirth: coordinate with breathing, inhale when the muscles contract, and exhale when they relax; do each movement 3-5 times, and hold for 15-30 seconds each time.

Exercises like yoga have certain requirements for the flexibility of the human body. Therefore, when doing yoga, you cannot demand yourself to do it very accurately. Instead, you need to choose the standard of yoga movements based on your own flexibility. The best time to do yoga is in the morning, and outdoor yoga is better than indoor yoga. You also need to pay attention to your breathing.