Tummy Safe Fitness with Bands

By Kelly Dean

Using bands for resistance is a great way to encourage your deep core muscle to activate as you workout. Often muscle imbalance specifically weak internal muscles and over active external muscles is the issue with functional core weakness and diastasis recti. We want to ensure that your exercise routine does not just reinforce that imbalance but actually helps fix it. This lesson will show you the techniques to focus on when using bands and how using bands can help in your core rehab journey. Grab a light resistance band if you have one and join me.

Make it functional

Keep bands handy. Don’t limit some strengthening exercises to the gym or your designated time to “work out”. Put a band in your kitchen drawer or on your bathroom vanity and practice a few resisted exercises with the optimal alignment and coordinated breaths a couple of times a day. The goal is to be strong for life not just the gym. So giving your body multiple bite size pieces of meaningful movement can dramatically impact your overall strength.

Make it Personal

Can you feel your core engage as you exhale and engage while pulling against the band resistance? Keep in mind even though it may seem like an arm exercise, your core is key to stabilizing your body when your arms are challenged. Diastasis recti rehab requires you to learn how to use your core throughout the day and during exercise not just when doing your rehab specific exercises.

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