It’s Frustrating, I know.

you may still look pregnant, but you’re not

your lower belly may be wider, rounder, and more distended than you thought it would be by now

more than anything you want to find your rhythm in fitness again

Are you an athletic mom who wants to feel fit and on-top again?

and the pain from trying to push your way through is front-and-center

If you’re being honest this stuff is messing with your identity.

You know that you can repair your abdominal muscles and get back to your fav fitness activities and you want to, like yesterday!

I know that fitness in motherhood is non-negotiable for you.

So let’s get right into it…

If you’re ready to:

  • tighten and restore your core 

  • not have your lower belly poking out

  • not look pregnant (because you’re not).

  • feel comfortable in your fav athletic wear or bathing suit

  • get back to your fav fitness activities without pain

  • feel like your fit self again…


Then it’s time to restore your core, the right way, without pushing yourself into pain and injury.

INTRODUCING…

Mom Belly, What’s the Deal?

The Digital Workshop for the Mom Who Is Serious About Repairing
Her Core and Getting Back to Her Workouts Injury Free

This high-impact digital workshop will focus on:

the proper rehabilitation of your inner core

the corrective rolling, stretching, and inner core work every mama needs to know

the solid foundation for your best health + physique in motherhood. 

the foundational steps required before returning to your fav fitness activities (so you can get back to them without pain + core dysfunction).

  • Is your lower belly still poking out in the shape of a dome despite doing all the things to heal + slim down?

  • Are you experiencing pain or injury that’s slowing your fitness progress?

  • Do you want to feel good in your body and your clothes again?

Hi, I’m Cynthia Spenla

and my approach for training mothers is different.

As a Chek trained holistic lifestyle and exercise coach I know how important your inner core unit is for every physical activity.

Pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum dramatically changes the musculature of the inner core. 

And those muscles need to be properly targeted and addressed in the initial postpartum phase.

This isn’t just another workshop that’s going to collect dust in some folder on your computer. 

This is everything you need to know to restore your core and get back to your fav fitness activities without stress, dysfunction, or injury.

This is the work you’re trying to skip over. This is the missing link. This is the necessary first phase of training postpartum.

This is the work that no one told you that you needed.

Your core is the foundation for all movement. And your core is the foundation for your best physique in motherhood.

How This Works:

1. Getting Real with Yourself

After you sign up, you’ll receive instant access to Mom Belly, What’s the Deal? Digital Workshop.

Inside you’ll find 8 Video Modules to move you through my process of targeting and rehabilitating your inner core, step-by-step.

At the end you’ll walk through a (30 min) mini movement practice with me that you can do daily to repair, tone, tighten your core, and tune into your body and breath.

I lead this workshop in-person in my private training space. 

🎉 But now I’ve made it available for women, just like you, to gain access from anywhere in the world! 🎉

Here’s what’s covered inside:

  • Why what you’re doing now isn’t working

  • Rude awakening: How I figured out what I was missing in my exercise approach in motherhood

  • Training + treating mothers holistically: going beyond the surface level symptoms (this is not just physical, mama)

3. Breathe Better for Faster Results

  • A little known secret to easily shedding excess weight + fat

  • What 3D diaphragmatic breathing is and why you need to know

  • How to identify a restricted inverted breathing pattern so you can heal

  • Check in with your breath

5. Learn How to Activate + Engage Your Core Properly

  • The #1 thing women aren’t training properly to flatten the stomach 

  • The top ways the apps and group fitness classes miss this essential foundation 

  • Understanding how to engage the Transverse Abdominis (TVA) 

  • The Chek difference: high-level rehabilitation

7. Mom Belly Mini Movement Practice: Follow-Along Exercises

  • The #1 thing women aren’t training properly to flatten the stomach 

  • The top ways the apps and group fitness classes miss this essential foundation 

  • Understanding how to engage the Transverse Abdominis (TVA) 

  • The Chek difference: high-level rehabilitation

2. Understanding Your Core

  • Inner vs. outer: there’s more to the core than you think

  • Is your inner core unit turned off? Why your digestive system matters

  • Get your inner core unit to fire automatically: a look at your psoas + pelvis positioning

  • How to get the inner core unit back on so you can heal up and get back to your fav workouts injury-free 

  • Inner Core: what the classes + apps miss

4. Embrace Release Work

  • The 3 common holding patterns that might be causing your mom belly

  • Working out is not the only thing that matters. You need to do this one thing too.

6. Putting It All Together: A Case for Corrective Exercise in Motherhood

  • Think long term + map your best plan: choose core foundation + corrective exercise over classes, cardio, and diets

Can I tell you a story?

Before I gave birth to my daughter I had my whole fitness plan mapped out.

I fully believed that I was not going to skip a beat and that I’d be in my best shape in no time.

My daughter was a year old. And there was this guy at the gym who saw me showing up pretty faithfully.

One day he looked at me and said, “What happened? You were in such great shape. You still look pregnant.”

I know, he shouldn’t have said that.

But the reality was I was overdoing it. I was in the throes of it. And I was trying to put fitness over physical dysfunction because I didn’t know the foundational first steps I needed to take postpartum.

And the only thing I knew to do to improve my situation (and reach my standards) was to push harder in my exercise.

I felt safety in exertion.

The story is much longer and deeper but what you really need to know is this: what I was doing wasn’t serving my body. In fact, it was making things worse.

I was so afraid to stop and let go. I was so afraid to be the beginner again.

And I didn’t even really know what exactly I needed.

I realized I needed to find and work with a woman who had been here before, a woman I could trust — one who understood my high standards.

Sara Gustafson with the Chek Institute was that woman for me. 

She guided me through the proper rehabilitation of my core.

And after I healed, after I fully understood what I was missing, what I was doing wrong, and what I needed to change to reach my fitness standards faster, without stress, and without injury, I committed to helping other women understand this approach.

Now I’m ready to be that woman for you.

Too many mothers are missing and skipping over the foundation rehabilitation work that would help them return to fitness and their active lifestyle injury + pain free.

Skipping this foundational work can leave you stuck and accepting chronic pain as your new normal — and I want better for you!

As a Chek Certified Holistic Lifestyle and Exercise Coach who Specializes in Health and Performance for Women, I’m curious…

Are you working so hard and not getting the results you want?

Are you ready to restore your core?

Are you ready to do the tedious breathing and inner core work that’ll help you return to your fav fitness routines sooner minus the pain and injury? 

Are you ready to use a proven, in-depth, and holistic approach to feeling good in your body again?

Trust me, I know the inside and outside of this industry left to right, back to front. And I can tell you that…

The diastasis programs, group fitness classes, and fitness apps aren’t really cutting it.

Here’s what’s not going to help you:

  • restrictive yo-yo dieting

  • a diastasis program alone

  • going to crossfit before you’re properly rehabbed

  • running before your core is properly rehabbed 

  • That fitness app that’s pushing you to do moves that are too advanced for what your body can actually handle postpartum

  • high impact before true rehabilitation

What you really need is to start with me inside Mom Belly, What’s the Deal? — The Digital Workshop for the Mom Who Is Serious About Repairing Her Core and Getting Back to Her Workouts Injury Free

The best news?

Mom Belly, What’s the Deal

IS JUST $97

Are you ready to get started?

BONUS:

But wait — You’ll also get access to 4 Helpful PDFS (on Paul Chek’s ‘4 Doctors’ Philosophy) to help you approach your postpartum healing and recovery from a holistic lens. Use these PDFS as guides to heal your core holistically.

PDF #1: Dr. DIET: Nourish yourself with whole nutritionally-dense foods. Connect and tune into your body’s specific and individual nutritional needs.

PDF #2: Dr. MOVEMENT: Work Out Smarter! You have limited time, mama. You know it. It’s time to get smarter with your movement and with your workouts.

PDF #3: Dr. QUIET: Secure the quiet time you need to thrive! Be aware of your body’s signals for rest, recovery, sleep, alone time, boundaries, and finding balance through quiet and self-time in your day.

PDF #4: Dr. HAPPY: Prioritize what lights you up, mama! Understanding the importance of living by your core values and creating space in your life that provides for experiences of joy, happiness, and creativity.

What Women Are Saying

“After working with Cynthia, my body dropped 15 lbs in two months without even training that hard…”

“I trained with this high-level trainer for years, and then when I had my third kid, I was still training with him — it was very high level, high intensity and at that point, my body just couldn't take it anymore. 

I connected with Cynthia and she was like, ‘I just don't know if this is serving you for the phase of life that you're in.’ And I said, I don't think it is either. I was struggling to try and lose baby weight and work on my health stuff and hormones.

Before working with Cynthia my body was just holding onto weight. After working with her, my body dropped 15 lbs in two months without even training that hard — just through giving my body what it really needed.

Cynthia is so thoughtful in her approach, with her research and what she guides you to implement. Postpartum moms are going to have the most benefit working with her — she’s so knowledgeable.”

-Monica

“Working with Cynthia really did transform my posture, my core awareness and how I relate to movement…”

“Working with Cynthia was the exact thing I needed. It was cosmic in some ways. When we reconnected I had just hurt my knee running — I was driving to the orthopedic doctor…

I'm five years postpartum, I've had three kids, my youngest is five, but as Cynthia was talking about the TVA not firing properly postpartum… as she was saying that it was impacting my posture and my body, I felt like there was definitely something to explore for myself.

Cynthia knows how to help you surrender and relax into more of a yin state. It doesn't look like pushing — it’s a lot of personal development work, a lot of healing work, and I find that her best fit client is someone who's interested in that work in conjunction with the physical aspect.”

-Emma

 

  • After you sign up you’ll receive an official confirmation via email with a link to access the Mom Belly, What’s the Deal? Digital Workshop and all the accompanying videos. Everything is mapped out for you in a very strategic order. 

    You’ll start with the first video and watch them in order.

  • Yes, you can! It’s not too late to work on the proper rehabilitation of your core. If you want to improve your physique and return to your favorite exercises without pain and injury, this workshop will serve you.

  • There are a total of 8 Modules for you to walk through. Each module contains a number of micro videos for you to move through. 

    They’re super easy and bite-sized. It’ll likely take 2-3 hours to work through all of them. You can binge or go at a slower pace — it just depends on your learning style. 

    The Mom Belly Movement Practice video is the one you’ll return to again and again to continue working on rehabbing your core, connecting to your breath, and getting your inner core unit to fire properly.

  • I recommend doing the corrective movements within Mom Belly What’s the Deal for 6-12 weeks prior to starting anything else (other than walking postpartum). 

    I recommend continuing these corrective exercises as part of your workout rhythm to continue to strengthen your inner core, balance your body and tune into your breath.

  • Yes! This is the best thing you can do for yourself to prepare for your postpartum rehabilitation. 

    Taking Mom Belly, What’s the Deal? now before you give birth and enter postpartum will help you take the right steps forward, at the right time, and will also help you skip the dead-end fitness paths that most mothers fall into.

  • Yes, taking Mom Belly, What’s the Deal with me will help you get your inner core online after cesarean. 

    This workshop is great for mothers who’ve experienced all types of birth. It is gentle and targets healing the inner core unit which is especially important after c-sections. Of course I’m always going to be pro getting in-person help, too!

Mom Belly What's the Deal

IS JUST $97

This is for you if you:

  • are working out the way you used to (before the baby) and it’s causing you stress, pain, or injury.

  • have not prioritized properly rehabilitating your core postpartum

  • want to reshape your belly / abdominals postpartum 

  • want to return to your fav fitness activities without damaging yourself or setting yourself up for injury.

This is not for you if you:

  • are looking for a complete full body training program. This is not a full body workout. This workshop (Mom Belly, What’s the Deal?) is the first foundational step to getting back to the fitness activities and routines you love, postpartum. If you’d like a full training program, custom written for you, please see my 1:1 offering Trailblazer.

I know what it’s like to want to run before you walk, mama.
•••
I know what it’s like to want to push through and push harder.

But it’s clear you’re here for a reason.

Inside Mom Belly I’m going to guide you through the foundational and critical work that no one told you that you needed.

And before you know it you’re going to feel good in your body and in your fav clothes.

You’re going to be in a better position to safely and sustainably return to that fit and adventurous version of motherhood you know is for you.

I can’t wait to serve you inside.

-Cynthia