Active Mum Was Born…

I still remember the day I “officially” realized that doing “normal” exercise while pregnant was doing lifelong irreversible damage to my body.

As a Fitness Professional I was a role model to every participant that attended my classes, and I was ruining their body too.

My life & career as I knew it would never be the same again.

It was a bit of a blow, but also the start of an interesting new journey.

A Journey that helped myself & thousands of women reclaim control of our changing bodies, & feel confident as we live the best years of lives.

Motherhood!

At this stage I had been a Fitness Trainer in the Fitness Industry for 10 years. I was a senior trainer, I had a university degree (95% of Fitness Trainers are not university qualified) and I had up-skilled with so many courses.

I prided myself on being well educated and highly skilled at what I did. I was a very good trainer… and I would proudly stand up and teach my classes at the big name gyms.

I was about 20 weeks pregnant with my first child, and I was teaching a popular class at the gym, making sure I was doing the things that I was taught kept me “safe” while I was pregnant.

You know like not getting my heart rate too high, or laying on my back doing sit ups… I had it nailed, or so I thought….

Until I started to experience really sharp pain in my pelvis. The pain became crippling as I walked and even putting my pants on hurt.

I went to see a Women’s Health Physio and found out that I was experiencing Pelvic Pain or PSD or SIJ pain and Abdominal Separation. She explained to me that the exercises I was doing were not safe for my pregnant body (they were in the guidelines of keeping my baby safe) but I was doing damage to my pelvic floor, pelvis and stomach muscles that would impact me for life.

I was angry... I was furious… I cried…. I sobbed…. How could my years of education not taught me this? How could I have been in the Fitness Industry 10 years, completed every course under the sun and never been told this.

50% of women that have had a baby suffer Prolapse & Incontinence and 30% suffer Abdominal Separation. Why were we not being educated on this? The truth was, that I was an amazing trainer, with a great education, but the inner workings of the Pregnant and Post-Natal body were just not covered anywhere in the Fitness Industry.

How could I ever get up and teach a class again in the gym as a role model, knowing what I now know?? I started to look for a program I could attend that would train my body in the right way for pregnancy, birth and life as a mum. There wasn’t anything.

And so… the Active Pregnancy Active Mum Program was born.

I worked closely with a women’s health physio and dedicated the next 15 years of my life to ensuring that pregnant women & mothers didn’t damage their body the way I had.

I learnt a great deal about everything that happens to a women’s body as they go through their motherhood journey from pregnancy, motherhood and menopause.

Countless hours and thousands of dollars have gone into research, learning and program development & refinement over the last 11 years to create world class programs to support pregnant women, mums after birth and mums in their midlife.

Countless hours and thousands of dollars in research….

Countless hours and thousands of dollars have gone into research, learning, program development & refinement over the last 16 years to create world class programs to support pregnant women, mums after birth and mums in their midlife.

I’ve experienced the moments of joy and exhilaration that being pregnant and being a mum brings… and also the lowest moments of wondering if I would ever get my body back, the moments of anger at my body for “breaking” and wondering if I would ever recover from the “damage” caused during pregnancy.

The back pain, the aching in my pelvis, the leaking, the tummy that still looked pregnant, the sadness as my clothes didn’t fit!!! The sense of loss of self, the loss of confidence.

Juggling all the balls and being everything to everyone else and not spending an ounce of time on myself, the days where I felt totally exhausted and didn’t feel like I had the energy to get up, little lone look after another human being. The realization that in everything I do and say, I am a role model for my children.

I’ve now realized after personally coaching over 15,000 mums and mums-to-be during the last decade, that my story isn’t unique.

The good news is that there’s a better way… and that is what I have dedicated my life’s to work to. Whether you’re pregnant, a new mum, a mum with toddler, a mum with school children, a mum in menopause I have a program that is specifically designed for you at that phase in your life journey.

My aim is to help you understand what your body is going through and what needs to change in your approach to your health and fitness in order to stop "the changes" from controlling you, as you progress through each stage motherhood.

Think of it as the start of a new journey, one that you will LOVE.