Mum and Baby Fitness Classes – All you need to know

Thinking of joining some local Mum and Baby Fitness Classes? Have you recently had a baby and would like to increase your fitness? Would you like to get out of the house with your child and make a few more mum friends? Maybe your little one is an older tot but with it being the New Year you would like to feel a bit healthier and take some time for yourself!

Mummy and baby fitness classes give new mums the opportunity to focus on toning up and feeling healthier after they’ve given birth. Working out also releases mood-boosting endorphins that can help address hormonal imbalances or even postpartum depression

Staying active during pregnancy and after you have had your baby is so important for mums both physically and mentally.

According to the NHS:

“If you had a straightforward birth you can start gentle exercise as soon as you feel up to it. This could include walking, gentle stretches, pelvic floor and tummy exercises. It’s usually a good idea to wait until after your 6-week postnatal check before you start any high-impact exercise, such as aerobics or running.”

Club Hub UK is an online directory for children from the age of 0-18. We have many fantastic mum and baby fitness classes in our directory from buggy fitness classes to mum and baby dance classes, mum and baby yoga, mum and baby/toddler boot camp. Take a look and see what you can find near you.

Here are a few Mum and Baby Fitness Classes listed on our directory:

• Busy Lizzy Baby postnatal fitness
• Yoga for mum and baby
• LushTums Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga with Birth Prep Education
• MamaBabyBliss Baby Yoga
• Mum & Baby Yoga @ Tesco Tower Park
• Mummy and Me Ballet

It’s important that you attend a mum and baby fitness class with a teacher who is qualified in post-natal exercise. They can discuss with you how to moderate exercise if you suffer from diastasis recti. This is basically separated stomach muscles. The amount of separation can vary. It happens because you’re growing womb (uterus) pushes the muscles apart, making them longer and weaker. You can check if you have this by placing your fingers on your belly button, pointing towards your pelvis, and pressing down. Lift your head up about an inch while keeping your shoulders on the ground. If you have diastasis recti, you will feel a gap between the muscles that is an inch wide or more. If you are concerned, do check with a nurse or doctor.

Exercises for Diastasis Recti include abdominal compressions, pelvic tilts, toe taps, heel slides, single-leg stretches, and bridges with belly scooping. Always keep the belly pulled in, rather than doing any movement that pushes it out

Benefits of Mum and baby fitness classes:

• Bonding – Spending extra time with your baby while you work out helps you and baby. Whether your baby is in their pushchair looking up at you, in a carrier or on a mat staring up at you they can sense your positive energy of you doing something for yourself while you focus on them at the same time.
• Forming healthy habits for the whole family
• Mum and baby fitness classes also is good for your baby by enhancing their Social Awareness
• Provides Sensory Stimulation for baby
• Mum and baby fitness classes can Increase confidence for mums
• Classes allow mums to make more mum friends
• Mum and baby fitness classes can be a way of doing something you enjoy, making you feel happy
• Fitness classes can improve your mood,
• There are many physical benefits too such as strengthening the heart, bones and lungs, keeping arteries and veins clear, reduces blood sugar levels
• Mum and baby fitness can help with weight loss
• Enhances emotional well-being,

If you are a new mum we also recommend checking out our article for best buys for new mums.  In the article Club Hub put together a quite extensive but helpful list of best buys for new mums. Each product had been reviewed by one of our Instagram brand rep mums.

We hope you have enjoyed reading this article on all you need to know about Mum and baby fitness classes. We would love to hear from you about how you found the class. Please email us on [email protected] or send us a message on social media!