The Best Methods to Lose Weight After You Have Your Baby
When you first found out that you were going to have a baby your doctors first instructions were probably “start gaining weight.”
Weight gain is a natural part of being pregnant. Eating for two makes it pretty easy to gain weight. Now that your baby has been born, however, you probably want to start shedding pounds as quickly as possible. You want to get your figure back to its pre-pregnant state. Keep reading to learn three ways that you can get your figure back after you have had your baby. Try any one of them and you’re sure to be able to fit into your old clothes again in no time.
The Reverse Curl: A woman who has just given birth to a baby will need to do some real work to get her abs back in shape and reverse curls can really help with that. In this exercise, you need to lie down on the floor (keeping your knees bent) and face the ceiling. With your feet just above your hips and your arms extended on the floor down your torso, and your head on the floor with your neck relaxed, inhale and exhale as you draw your abs in and lift your hips off the floor and towards your ribs. Slowly go back to your starting position and then repeat the exercise. Try to do twenty reps if you can manage it. It’s okay if you can’t do 20 in the beginning, you can work up to that number. Then work toward fifty reps.
This exercise is great for your abs and will help you lose the pouch as well as helping you walk straight and with more confidence.
Pilates: Pilates might seem slow but it can help you burn more than 200 calories in an hour.
That’s a lot of calories for just doing a few stretching movements. You can learn different kinds of moves by watching online videos, DVDs or reading books. Perhaps the best “post-natal” exercise you can do if you want to lose weight is to lie on your back and keep your knees bent. Put your hands behind your head and take a breath. Then, breathe back out as you contract your abs and lift your head as well as your shoulders off of the floor. Then, straighten your legs and move them into a 45 degree angle while you keep your palms down and lift your arms. Pump your arms in a rhythmic manner and inhale over the course of five beats. Then breathe back out for five beats. If you can do 100 of these a day you’ll get into shape faster than you think!
The Classic Crunch: You probably already know how to do this exercise but it’s a great one for women who have just given birth to strengthen the abs and lose weight at the same time. Doing a crunch is easy, lay on you back with your hand behind your head and your knees bent. Lift your head and shoulders off the floor inhale through your nose and exhale as you tighten your abs. Now you simply bring your ribs in towards the hips as you relax your butt. Slowly return to the starting position. As you work at doing these correctly also work at increasing the number you can do from a few to upwards of 50. Once you’ve reached your goal of 50 try adding weight to increase weight. If you keep up with these exercises three or more days a week and eating right you will shed that baby weight fast. Before you know it you’ll see the results of your motivation as you continue to lose weight.
Always remember, in advance of starting any exercise plan, you should check with your personal doctor first. Start off exercising 2 times every week for half an hour, and little by little build-up your training frequency and intensity level. After a few months, you should be ready to exercise 3-4 times per week for a maximum of 60 minutes each workout. Any more than this will pretty much be counter productive and too much strain on your nervous system. Try and include things like iron gym pull up bar workouts into your work out plan at least one time per week.
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