BABS
A 12-week introductory strength training program for postpartum women who want to start lifting but don’t want to make their symptoms worse.
Live and recorded classes to help you get a stronger core, ease back pain, and feel comfortable in your clothes
Next round January 2025. Join the waitlist to get €75 off (regular price €275)
Are you a new mum? Wondering what exercises are safe? Or how you will ever feel like you again?
Exercise after baby is very confusing with blanket statements like “do what you have always done” or “listen to your body”. What about the 6 week check? Are you good to go after that?
I talk to women everyday who tell me that they don’t know where to start. They want to feel like themselves again and have less aches or pains, less leaking and feel comfortable in their clothes again.
Most women think we have 2 options:
A buggy boot camp/gym class that you used to go to - you lower the weight and maybe avoid the jumping jacks and burpees in case you leak but ultimately you never fix your leaking or your diastasis. You occasionally wee yourself but that’s the cost of having a baby right?
A couch to 5k - You love running and this sounds like a great idea. You wear black leggings and a sanitary pad just in case. But you’ve missed the strength work needed and there’s no introduction to impact so you end up in the deep end. Leaking, heaviness in your pelvic floor and your worried you have made it worse.
Neither of these sound like good options!
That’s why I created the BABS programme. Each workout includes breathing, core exercises, strength and impact to help you recover, regain strength and get back to what you love!
Martina is a brilliant trainer. Her classes are thoughtfully planned and purposeful, with each exercise designed to help heal and rebuild strength postpartum. She explains the importance of breathing and alignment in a way that’s easy to understand, offers corrections and adjustments as well as adaptations when needed. I left her classes feeling much, much stronger than when I began! - Mandy
Unlike other programmes, this is not just a list of confusing exercises for you to do. The recorded workouts are follow along videos so you can press play and get to work. The live class is for you to show up, get coached and asked questions.
I will be with you every step of the way!
What you can expect?
We start every class with breathing exercises to start reconnecting your core and pelvic floor. This is the foundation of everything else including running and jumping! Exercises help you to stack ribs over hips to align your posture, ease aches and pains and get a stronger core.
But it’s not all about slow mat based exercises, classes include weights which we progress every 4 weeks. Then we add in some impact like hopping and jumping so you are confident that your body and pelvic floor is strong!
I have used my REPS method for years working with 100s of women online and in person to get them back to the exercises they love after pregnancy.
Reconnect your core and pelvic floor. Realign your posture and learn to stack ribs over hips
Empathy for yourself, your symptoms and situation - you won’t always have leaking or prolapse symptoms but learning how to manage them helps you progress and get stronger.
Progress with weights, impact and intensity - yes the fun stuff!
Stay consistent - don’t get bored of the basic rehab and learn how to exercise no matter what life throws at you
I didn't know what I could do safely after having a baby, I wasn't sure if there was certain things to avoid. I didn't feel like me anymore, my body shape had changed. The classes made me realise I was much stronger than I thought and made going to the gym fun for the first time ever! I also felt more toned and had to buy some smaller jeans. - Louise
Hi I’m Martina! I am a qualified pregnancy and postpartum coach and founder of Fit Mná.
My online classes and programmes have helped 100s of women with my online programme during pregnancy, postpartum and beyond. I have helped women to heal diastasis and leaking so they can get back to the exercises they love.
I understand the challenges around training during pregnancy and balancing the demands of motherhood and exercise as I have also trained throughout my own pregnancy and postpartum journey.