The Blog
New!
10 WAYS MAINSTREAM FITNESS ADVICE FAILS MOTHERS:
How to Find Your Unique Path to Fitness and Optimal Health as a Woman and Mother
Inside of 10 Ways Fitness Advice Fails Mothers I’m going to help you understand the popular (and deceptive) fitness approaches you need to avoid so that you can feel deeply content in your body and embodied in your experience of motherhood.
You need to gain this knowledge and information if you’re going to avoid the negative long-term health implications that most women unknowingly set themselves up for!
Cynthia Spenla
is a Chek Certified Holistic Lifestyle and Exercise Coach who Specializes in Health and Performance for Women.
She designs fitness programs that centralize both the female hormonal cycle and the complexities of motherhood while supporting her clients to create the sculpted, strong, and attractive bodies they desire without destroying their health, increasing their risk of injury, or disrupting their hormones in the process.
Her prior experience serving women who’ve struggled with eating disorders, exercise addiction, and body image issues, in addition to her transition into motherhood, has helped her adopt an approach that addresses the mental, emotional, physical, and nutritional components of a woman’s life.
Cynthia accompanies the women who’re ready to go off the beaten path — women who’re beginning to recognize that mainstream health + fitness advice isn’t working for them. She lights up an alternative pathway for new mothers — a pathway that leads to restoration, vitality, and healing after the life-altering Rite of Passage that is pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood.
Are You a Holistically-Minded Mama Who Wants to Shape Up and Get Lean?
Is another group fitness class really worth your time and energy? Is this really the best path to hitting your fitness goals this year? Or are you ready to take a different path? One that starts with an individual assessment — and one that’s highly tailored to your body and your needs?
Want a Great Physique Postpartum? Find Out Why Corrective Exercise Is the Best Path Forward
There is little-known strategy for mothers that’s holistic, that accounts for and acknowledges matrescence, and it starts with what I call corrective exercise. With corrective exercise as your reintroduction to fitness postpartum, you’ll walk a journey that honors just how epic pregnancy, birth, and womanhood really are.
1 Key Thing You Need to Know Before You Start a Postpartum Diastasis Recti Program
There’s more going on below the surface that can be affecting your abdominal healing.
Snag This Realistic + Holistic Postpartum Fitness Timeline for a First-Time Mom
You’ll physically shape up faster (and better) when you drop into the important phase your body is in, instead of trying to override it, or steamroll forward.
Is Long-Distance Running Really A Good Strategy for Postpartum Weight Loss and Reaching Your Fitness Goals as a New Mom?
Do you think that you have to run to get in shape, that running is the best weight loss strategy, or that it’s a necessary requirement to reach your fitness and body goals?
How This Trainer Secures Consistent and High-Quality Lifting and Exercise Time as a Mama
Motherhood is demanding. It’s a 24/7 role. Your time is limited now. How do you take care of yourself in a way that allows you to put your best foot forward? How do you ensure your needs are met and that your cup is being refilled consistently?
Stop! Before You Start a Postpartum Fitness Plan, Read This.
I know you want to get right back to your norm, I know you don’t want to feel behind and I know you’re ready to dive into an exercise routine that’ll take you from choosing loose-fitting clothes to feeling hot in your favorite dress or leggings again.