To decrease the amount of body fat after pregnancy it is recommended to follow a low calorie diet and exercise that strengthens the abdomen and back to improve posture, avoiding back pain, which is very common after the baby is born, due to poor posture during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
You can start doing exercises to decrease fat mass from 20 days after normal birth and 40 days after cesarean section, or according to medical guidelines. Some examples of exercises to strengthen the abdominal muscles after pregnancy are:
Exercise 1
Lying on your back, raise your hips to the maximum height you can and stay still in that position for 1 minute and then lower your hips. Repeat the exercise 5 times.
Exercise 2
Lying on your back, keep your torso still on the floor while raising both legs at the same time as shown in the image above. Keep your legs elevated for 1 minute while keeping your belly muscles contracted. If necessary, raise or lower your leg slightly until you feel the abdominal contraction. Do this exercise 5 times repeatedly.
Exercise 3
Stay still in the position shown in the image above for 1 minute and then rest. Repeat the exercise 5 times.
Exercise 4
Stay in the position shown in the image above and with your legs close together, lower your hips until you are almost on the floor and then lift your body with the strength of your arms. Go up and down 12 times in a row. When you're done, go back to doing the same series 2 more times.
In addition to these exercises, it is important that women do some type of aerobic exercise to burn enough calories and to lose weight faster. It can be rollerblading, cycling, running or swimming, for example.
A physical trainer will be able to make a personal assessment and indicate the most appropriate exercises for the young mother, when the goal is only to recover her physical form, without therapeutic purposes. But when there is abdominal diastasis, which is the separation of the abdominal rectum, the most appropriate exercises are described here.
Here's an excellent exercise to do after the baby is born to regain fitness, with or without diastasis is:
In addition to diet and exercise, what you can do to lose belly after pregnancy is to apply a cream that contains caffeine in its composition because it helps to burn localized fat. Some examples of this cream to lose belly are the manipulated cream of Xantina with average price: R $ 50, and the Cellu Destock, of the brand Vichy with average price 100 reais.
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