Back in October I posted a video, which showed me taking my wife Laura through a circuit session while she was 6 months pregnant. (http://www.resultsconditioning.com/archives/495).  Well now we have a beautiful baby daughter who is 9 weeks old and Laura is back into her training determined to get her pre-pregnancy shape back. She started after 6 weeks with some light cardio using x-trainers and cycles and is now already back down to her previous weight. Her goal now is to improve her muscle tone focusing on her lower body and mid-section. Laura’s abdominals are now fully healed so we can now start introducing more core focused workouts into her sessions such as the one shown below.

Warm up:

We began by warming up with a light medicine ball using exercises such as swings, rotations, squats and lunges.

Lower-body workout:

We performed a 3-exercise circuit that focused on movements that not only hit the legs but also heavily involved the core.

TRX single leg lunge

Reverse balance lunge

Side lunge

Core workout:

After the lower-body we moved onto the core doing a superset of 2 exercises.

Resistance band woodchops

Medicine ball crunch with alternating leg lifts 

Once we had completed this we finished off the workout with 20 minutes of focus pad work to help burn plenty of calories. We performed 2-minute rounds with a minutes rest in between. Once this was done we cooled down and stretched.