A PT-approved guide to help new mums get back into exercise safely – after experts recommend ‘2 hours a week’

AS a new mum, wrapped up in caring for a newborn, exercise if often the last thing on your mind, never mind weight loss.

So when researchers said this week that ‘new mums should do two hours of vigorous exercise per week’, it was a little jarring.

Young woman jogging on a bridge.

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New mums can get back into exercise whenever they feel up to it, the NHS says – unless there complications in childbirth, in which they should check with your midwife or GPCredit: Getty

But there’s more to it than losing ‘baby weight’, said the new guidance from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, written in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Getting back to exercise in the first 12 weeks after birth can help boost both physical and mental health, improve sleep, strengthen pelvic floor muscles, improve lower back or pelvic pain, reduce fatigue and…

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