Any advice on getting back into fitness after having a baby?
for context, I am 9 months pp and have always been quite an active person. Throughout pregnancy and before I weight trained and worked out at the gym at least twice a week minimum. I walk every day, anything from 2-5km daily. Since having a baby my body has obviously changed A LOT.
i wake up with severe aches and pains in my joints. My lower back, knees and hips. My gut sticks out and looks as though I’m still pregnant (which I know is entirely normal after pushing a human out). I think I probably have diastais recti which is then adding strain to my lower back constantly. I feel like a 30yr old in an 80yr old body sometimes.
I don’t have any motivation to lift weights anymore. I have some dumbells at home which I thought would help me find time to workout around my baby. But I rarely ever use them. I stopped breastfeeding last month which has helped from a hormonal perspective. We have a working cocker spaniel so I still walk daily.
Not sure how to find love for fitness again, I don’t have unrealistic expectations of myself to be a model physique, I never have been! but I just want to feel stronger and able to stand up without my back breaking 😖 any advice??? P