Post Natal Exercises for a Super Flat Tummy
When my daughter was born, I remember my wife being dreadfully depressed about getting her pre-pregnancy figure back – in a hurry. To be perfectly fair, she had been quite slim throughout most of her pregnancy, in fact from behind, you wouldn’t have known she was pregnant right up until about 8 weeks from our daughter’s birth.
Burn Your Baby Fat and Get Your Body Back
What was amusing at the time was that she wasn’t so bothered about getting her figure back because of how she looked at all. No, when she was 8.5 months pregnant, she had a £50 bet with one of her clients in an ad agency that she would be back wearing her skin tight, bright red jeans within a month of the birth.
Now this was more than 20 years ago and that was a lot of money back then – particularly as she was not planning on returning to her well paid advertising sales job in the West End. Worse than the money though, this guy was quite a smart ass and he needed showing!
I remember at the time thinking “we need help here!” But back then, there was no Internet. No quick ebook video courses. I don’t think work out videos had even been invented – although didn’t Jane Fonda have a workout video quite a while back? Anyway, she got all the help she could from the doctor and the post natal people on diet and exercise and through sheer hard work and determination, got close to being able to do up the red jeans.
Burn Your Baby Fat and Get Your Body Back
Then by what I can only describe as a superhuman effort and with the help of a coat hanger which she threaded through the pull of the zipper, she lay down flat on her back on the living room carpet and forced the zip closed. Her next trial was to find a way to get from lying flat on her back to standing up, whilst being completely unable to bend in the middle! I had my uses back then and with clever leverage was able to prop her up, inch by inch until she was erect.
Just one challenge remained – breathing. With a series of almost imperceptible little pants, (similar to what we had learned in the pre-natal classes) she was somehow able to get enough air into her lungs to prevent her from passing out. I tried to persuade her to just pay up, I even offered her the cash myself, but this was one determined lady. (Actually, her beautiful daughter is similarly determined nowadays!) She had no intention of giving up and losing that bet.
Walking very slowly and somewhat stiffly she made it onto the commuter train the next morning. The rest is history.
Smart Ass paid up – with quite good grace so I was later told and my wife was the wonder of all her ex work colleagues, having miraculously gotten her figure back, within just a few weeks of giving birth.
I still think back and wonder if she wouldn’t have been happier with one of those ebook video courses that are available nowadays!