Tuesday Tip: Get your figure back after child birth

   As a lady, do you have a naturally slim physique? Are you one of those lucky people that never have to workout or go on any kind of diet to look good or loose weight? If your answers are yes then fine...let's move on. Do you have that fear of losing your shape or your body being stretched out of the usual shape and never returning after you go through the physical changes of child birth? Yeah I know!...lots of women have this fear and it is very understandable. However I have a solution to this, I actually sat down with someone a couple of years back and she explained to me how this works.

The solution to this is actually simply, the answer is EXERCISE. But before you start complaining of how I won't shut up about exercising let me just explain...lol.

And even if you don't have the natural slim physique this will still help you.




Did you see that picture that was circulating at a point of a lady that was about 6 months pregnant and  yet her baby bump was almost invisible. Only for her to resurface when she was 9 months pregnant and her stomach was looking like she was about 4 months pregnant. Well it's kind of the same thin but nothing that severe...nah! not at all! That type could cause harm to your baby, i'm talking of carrying the big stomach for the 9 months and getting back to shape in a month or less after delivery.


Naturally the body has muscles but they aren't quite pronounced or strong. The only way you build them is through exercising. Understand that your body is subject to change if anything as severe as child birth or any other thing stretches it or changes it's natural nature. Just think of your body as an elastic band, if it is stretched a little it still snaps back but if it is stretched too much, it looses it's elasticity. So how do you increase it's elasticity and have it resist a high level of stretch? It's by building the muscles of the target area. In this case that would be your stomach and well...your whole body size.

Now muscle toning and building exercises are able to make your muscles more firm and strong or in other words, they are able to make your muscles build a stronger level of elasticity. The key to returning to your figure on time after being stretched out of shape during pregnancy is to be regular with your exercises. You have to build your body and tone your muscles well enough for them to maintain their elasticity. The problem is that if you haven't been working out before the pregnancy to get your muscles to start responding in elasticity, you have to go for about 2 straight months of intense cross training or more. So what I mean is that you actually have to be dedicated to your workout long before you get pregnant and still stay active during the duration of your pregnancy. That is the best way to return to your shape right after child birth.
   
I as a guy can testify to how our body reacts to constant exercise. Before I started working out seriously, I would do very little workout and notice very small change and the moment I leave the workout , i'll have to start my exercising all over again to get back in shape. Then I bought a DVD called INSANITY by beachbody and it put me through about 60 days of straight intense workout. It helped beat the elasticity into my muscles. Now even if I leave my workout for a long time (not too long though), the moment I get back into it and work for about a week, I start noticing changes immediately. I can almost swear that the muscles are now afraid of me having to put them through INSANITY again. This is exactly the same effect that working out now will have on you. You can start now to workout intensively and beat your body into the shape you want it to be in. You might loose your shape during pregnancy but just give yourself a little time, it might not take up to a month of workout, you will get back in shape and your friends will ask you your secret. Trust, try and see.

The problem in this is staying dedicated for as long as you need to initially be. Give yourself about 3 straight months of intense workout without slacking off and keep at it for as long as you can after that. You will have nothing to regret after your child birth. Your body and muscles have a mind of their own, you just have to be willing to endure the pain, stay focused on that goal and work hard to beat that elasticity into it.

That's it for today's Tuesday Tip. Hit that gym today and get that killer body that you deserve tomorrow.