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129. Prenatal Pilates is just Pilates, with Hailey Hawkins and Raphael Bender
Season 3 · Episode 129

129. Prenatal Pilates is just Pilates, with Hailey Hawkins and Raphael Bender

Pilates Elephants · Raphael Bender

March 19, 20231h 22mExplicit

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Show Notes

There is a persistent myth in the Pilates world that prenatal Pilates needs to be gentle, safe, highly modified and complicated. But this is not true…

Resources mentioned in the episode:

  • Connect with Hailey Hawkins here
  • Check out some of Hailey's Instagram posts here and here and here and here
  • ACSM guidelines here
  • ACOG guidelines here
  • No relationship between relaxin levels and pelvic pain here
  • The Sacroiliac joint moves 0.2 degrees in women diagnosed with pelvic instability here
  • Instead the intensity of fear-avoidance beliefs predicts pelvic pain here
  • During a curl up diastasis gets smaller here
  • Ab strengthening during pregnancy reduces diastasis here
  • Curl-ups reduce diastasis here

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