Every Mother

I was going to wait til I finished the reclaim program (90 days) but after the check in at day 42 I can say with absolute certainty this program WORKS. I knew I was feeling different but wasn’t positive I looked any different. My weight is the same (I’m not overweight but have a belly) but after taking the check in photos I was like WOW there has been significant change! The first couple weeks I didn’t have tons of motivation but I did have disciple and once I had completed 21 days it’s become a habit. I feel incomplete if I don’t do the workout for the day and now seeing the progress I feel a huge motivation boost to keep going. This is the key: stick with it, be consistent for at least 21 days and just see for yourself. I do the core compressions and also the workouts. It feels too easy a lot of days but some days it can really push me. Either way it’s definitely working so I’m likely going to get the year subscription once I finish reclaim. I’m honestly just shocked how effective it is because it’s so doable!

Overall good exercises and good variation. But for significant post partem recovery issues, like substantial diastasis rectic, some of these exercises were not appropriate. Working with a physio therapist (local, in-person!) helped me understand what kind of exercises to do at which point in my healing and provided me with alternations to some of these exercises. For example, in tabletop core compressions if gravity is pulling organs through abdominal separation, try dropping arms and placing forehead on the ground, use breath to pull organs into place, then compress. Not everyone can afford a PT, so this app seems like a good resource in that case. Some people in the reviews have sworn by this app for their diastasis recti healing while mentioning that they’re doing crunches to heal. That would be a real hernia risk, not sure what’s happening there…