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An Olympian’s physiological changes during pregnancy
BY SARA HENDERSHOT
When I found out last winter that I was pregnant, my immediate emotions were split between thrilled and...
4 Birth Stories - Our Hatch Athletes Tell Their Stories
Giving birth is possibly the most challenging thing a woman will go through in her life, yet it's so different for everyone. Some women have a really enriching experience, others find it painful...
Not Made To Bounce - Mindful Strategies For Your Journey To Athletic Motherhood
by Josie Askin
Look at any celebrity magazine or social media platform and you may believe the human female body has magical superpowers following birth. It can apparently create a whole baby...
5 Ways to Stop Leaking with Double Unders
We're delighted to have Antony Lo aka The Physio Detective writing for us about this hot topic in the CrossFit world. This one's for those of you pre-pregnancy, or if you're later down the track...
Fuelling the Postpartum Athlete: Athlete Nutrition Part 2
Alicia Edge, Advanced Sports Dietician
As we discussed in Part One of this series, nutrition is a core component in supporting and thriving during your fertility, pregnancy and mum-life...
Fuelling Your Fertility & Pregnancy: Athlete Nutrition Part 1
Alicia Edge, Advanced Sports Dietician
Access and acceptance of woman in sport is growing more than ever before, and there is another trend rising alongside it – more...
Learning To Love Your New Postpartum Body
As a new mama you probably did a fair bit of preparation for your new arrival – buying car seats and cots and cute onesies. You might have read books on pregnancy or sat a hospital course on...
How to Survive the 4th Trimester Like a Boss
You're athletic, you're competitive and you've just done the hardest workout of your entire life. No matter what your birth story, whether you laboured or didn't labour, you've just spent...
8 Exercises To Avoid As A Pregnant Athlete
It's time to debunk the fact from the fiction about what REALLY are the high intensity functional exercises you shouldn't do in pregnancy, and WHY.
1. Exercises For Time
This is no longer a...
5 Exercises You'll Love In Your 2nd Trimester
When you get to the 'bulk' of your pregnancy, (weeks 12-28), there's some advice out there about what you should start to avoid (which I'll touch on in my next blog entry). But where's the advice...