Flattening The ‘Mummy Tummy’ With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day


Have you – or someone you know – dealt with “mommy pooch” and the back pain often associated with it? We actually have some simple and quick exercises in the Muscle Balancing and Joint Stabilization class that help with mommy pooch. Here’s an interesting story about that from NPR. It turns out the jelly belly or mummy tummy actually has a medical term: diastasis recti, which refers to a separation of the abdominal muscles
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/07/541204499/flattening-the-mummy-tummy-with-1-exercise-10-minutes-a-day?sc=tw

Women work on strengthening their core abdominal muscles in Leah Keller’s exercise class for new moms, inside a San Francisco clothing store called Monkei Miles.