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The ultimate postpartum recovery experience. Founder: Abigail Sommer

10/30/2026

3 moves won’t give you a flat stomach. And GLP-1s won’t give you a strong stomach🤷‍♀️

True postpartum recovery isn’t built on quick-fix exercise hacks or restrictive routines. It’s built on smart, progressive programming and intentional recovery that actually heals your core from the inside out.

Stop guessing what’s safe and start training with a real strategy.

👉 Ready to rebuild your full-body strength the right way? Comment WORKOUT for a free week of workouts!

10/29/2026

Life lately 🍁 (swipe to the end for the picture of Ayzie I’ll show her future boyfriend)

1. Six months of Azalea Anne 🌺
2. Rosalie wore her Cinderella dress to Walmart and danced through the aisle singing “everyone!! Look at this beautiful girl in the distance!!”
3. Azalea patiently waiting for Rosalie to ride a bike
4. Rosalie taking all of four days to confidently ride her pedal bike
5. Carving pumpkins
6. Early trick or treating while daddy was home
7. Fall
8. Sleeping babies >>
9. Lots of fun with nana
10. Lots of planes
11. Unfortunate bow placement

10/27/2026

Rating the pelvic floor advice you’ve been given, out of ten, starting with the one that’s genuinely... making things worse.

Drink less water so you leak less: 0 out of 10.

Concentrated urine irritates your bladder, so you’ll go more, not less.

Hover over public toilets: 1 out of 10. Your floor can’t relax in a half squat, so you never fully empty. Sit down.

Wear a pad and get on with it: 1 out of 10. Leaking is common. It is not something you have to accept for forty years.

A hundred kegels a day: 2 out of 10. Fine if your floor is genuinely weak, actively worse if it’s tight, and most moms have never been told which one they are.

Kegels while you drive: 3 out of 10, because timing is the whole skill and random squeezing teaches your floor nothing about a sneeze.

Feet on a stool and stop straining: 9 out of 10. Free, instant, hardly anyone knows.

Exhale on the effort when you lift: 10 out of 10, the most transferable thing on this list.

And seeing a pelvic floor PT: 10 out of 10. If it isn’t improving, that’s the shortcut, not the last resort.

🫶Comment BREATHE and I’ll send you my diaphragmatic breathing guide.

10/20/2026

“How does Cinderella treat people?”… TRICK OR TREAT 👻 save these questions for your interview 👇

🔖 Here’s all the questions I asked (I edited a few out):

What’s your full name?
How old are you?
How do you make friends at school? What do you say?
What are your most excited for at school?
What’s your favorite animal?
What are you going to be for Halloween?
Who is your favorite princess/superhero? Why?
What’s something you’re really good at?

Definitely doing this every year 🥹

Follow for pregnancy & postpartum fitness advice that actually works, + bts like this of my little fam

10/20/2026

The one thing I do after every single workout: I relax my pelvic floor.

Most moms are told to squeeze. Do Kegels at every red light. Squeeze through every rep, just in case.

But Kegels only help if your floor is actually weak. Mine was tight.

A weak floor can't generate force. A tight floor can't let go. It can look like the same symptoms, leaking or heaviness, with the opposite fix.

So I end every workout with pelvic floor relaxation, so I'm not hanging onto tension for the rest of the day.

Your pelvic floor should move with your breath, not clench through everything.

Comment BREATHE and I'll send you my diaphragmatic breathing guide to help you get started.

10/16/2026

Your first month back decides how the next six actually go.

1) Starting where you left off. Your last pre-pregnancy program is a goal, not a starting point. Beginning below what you can do is how you get to keep going.

2) Going straight to what you missed. Most women miss running and heavy lifting, which are the two highest-impact, highest-pressure things available. They come back, just not in week one.

3) Judging a session on soreness. Soreness tells you something was unfamiliar, not that it was useful. You're rebuilding a system, not hunting a feeling.

4) Ignoring coning and leaking because you're finally back. Those aren't signs you're weak or that you should stop. They're signs the load is too much today, and the load is adjustable.

5) Training five days and sleeping four hours. Frequency you can't recover from turns into a month of feeling worse and a quiet decision that exercise isn't for you right now.

Go slower than feels necessary for four weeks. You'll be further ahead by month three than the version of you who rushed.

Comment WORKOUTS and I'll send you my beginner postpartum workouts.

10/14/2026

Half the core cues you've been given are working... against you.

Sucking in and holding it is the worst of them. Constant tension has to go somewhere, and downward onto your pelvic floor is where it goes.

The two that actually rebuild things are the quiet ones. Let your ribs widen on the inhale. Exhale on the effort. That's your deep core working in the order it's supposed to.

Bracing hard has a place, under a heavy bar. It just isn't the tool for the rebuild, because it lets you skip the part that got switched off.

If a cue makes you hold your breath, it isn't the one.

Comment BREATHE and I'll send you my full diaphragmatic breathing guide.

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