Moving Mamas

Want to try our Small Group Postnatal Personal Training? But don’t feel ready to commit to an entire course 🤔
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☀️This summer we’re offering drop-in bookings - where you can try a single class for £20☀️
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Already attending one of our courses? You can now bring a friend for £10 a session too!👩‍🍼🤱
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For more info & booking visit our website 🔗 www.movingmamas.co.uk
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✨A new course of Postnatal Small Group Personal Training will start at from June 6th. ✨
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Workout 💪 Meet mums 💕 Bring your baby! 👶
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Our 7 week course is £135 and includes a group consultation, individual postural analysis, diastasis recti testing and workouts tailored to you.
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With just six spaces per class, book your spot at www.movingmamas.co.uk 🔗 Link in bio.
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🧘‍♀️Top 3 buys to relieve tight muscles🧘‍♀️
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Feeling achy? Whether your days are spent cuddling/ cradling/ lifting / baby wearing / buggy pushing / co-sleeping / contact-napping / rough and tumbling/ breast feeding / car seat wrestling or pregnant… being a mum can cause some serious tension. So here are our top 3 buys to help relieve overactive muscles…
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1. Yoga Blocks: So simple but so effective. If you’re feeling tight, use these blocks to reduce the intensity and range of your stretches (use them to reduce the depth of your stretch, by bring the floor closer to you). As your flexibility increases, you can use them to intensity for your stretches (by increasing the depth of your stretch / using them to position you further away from the floor).
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2. Foam roller: Great to add into your stretch routine before and after your workout. Foam rolling is a form of Self Myofascial Release (SMR) and works by relieving tension in the fascia (connective tissue) that surrounds your muscles.
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3. A massage gun, picturted Hoposo: Awesome for targeting areas that can be tricky to reach with a foam roller. Add one into your warm up and cool down routine to help reduce stiffness and soreness.
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Did you know we offer prenatal 1:1 personal training?See what our clients have to say about our workouts 💪🤰 “I was lucky enough to train with Lydia throughout my pregnancy.
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I always looked forward to my sessions with Lydia immensely. She was incredibly encouraging and supportive and made sure she pushed me on at just the right pace. I actually got stronger through my pregnancy, which is something that I didn’t expect!
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I loved taking the time for myself and always enjoyed the chats that Lydia and I had about all aspects of pregnancy, motherhood, and some silly stuff too! There was never a shortage of giggling in our PT sessions!
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I faced my daughter’s birth feeling strong, positive and prepared, feelings which training with Lydia definitely contributed towards. Now my daughter is here, I am looking forward to getting fit again under Lydia’s expert guidance.”
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Mama and hypnobirthing teacher and cheerleader tells us all about her home births 🤰👶
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“Both my birth experiences are so similar but they both started out very differently (see below). Both born at home, in a pool within 4 or 5 hours from start to finish and both were born around 4am ☺️
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Bonnie was born at 38 weeks, nearly 10 years ago. I was watching Game of Thrones in bed with my husband Tony and then at around midnight my waters suddenly went in a great big whoosh! I just remember feeling so excited and started Googling ‘how long until labour starts?’ I remember feeling very loved up and high and happy. We had made a cozy nest in our living room/kitchen and I went in there and sat on my ball, bouncing, drinking tea and breathing for the whole time, while Tony literally built a birth pool. For some reason we thought a wooden Danish number would be the best option.. btw it isn’t! It literally took him 4 hours to build and fill it 😆 Anyway… We also had my friend’s dog staying - a very active little Jack Russell called Monty, who surprisingly was amazingly chilled out during the whole labour. Although I do remember the Midwife shouting ‘get that bloody dog out of here’ when I was totally zoned out in active labour 😝
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My mum was also staying in the spare room because the week before I had gone into hospital with a suspected appendicitis (thankfully it was nothing much), so she had delayed her trip back home. I was also very lucky to have the same Midwife who had looked after me in hospital during my whole labour and she was just wonderful. Very hands off and filled me with loads of confidence.
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When the Midwife checked me, thinking she could go to another home birth, I remember her panicking because I was ‘suddenly’ 10cm and she didn’t have another Midwife there. I was actually quite pleased to know I was fully dilated at this point because I hadn’t felt the ‘transition’ stage like I was expecting, so I knew I had to get into the pool that moment..(continued in comments)

Class Drop! Book Now for both our new Pre and Postnatal Courses! Swipe for dates and times 🗓️

We are so excited to be launching our new Prenatal courses to compliment our established Postnatal courses!

Feel strong and supported through every trimester and meet other mums-to-be along the way. 🤰🤰🤰

Our small group prenatal course gives you the tools you need to train in confidence, offering workouts that change as your body does. 💪🙌🏋️

This seven week course is held in two gym-based locations and and offers exclusive use of each site.

This ensures that we have the space and privacy to give you the attention you need to feel entirely confident with each exercise.

Our course begins with a consultation and group meet-up, where we chat 1 to 1 about your pregnancy 🤰 and goals. The next six sessions then deliver a one hour workout, consisting of strength 💪 and stretching 🧘work supporting your changing body and the perfect precursor for motherhood!

Each course is limited to 8 people ensuring we can give you the attention and support you need. 🤗

And if you're already a mum 👶🤱come and join us for our postnatal courses at and ! Link in bio to book both now.

📚 🤰 Top 3 prenatal books 🤰📚

Thinking of getting some reading in before your little one arrives?

Here are three accessible diverse reads that might take your fancy.

1. The Positive Birth Book - A great read to feel informed and confident throughout pregnancy and birth. Fantastic takeaways for writing your birth plan too.

2. Kid Gloves - A beautiful comic strip account of pregnancy and the journey into motherhood. An unexpected favourite and a great gift for any mum to be.

3. Origins - An awesome roundup of research into how pregnancy, lifestyle and birth impact the babies that we grow and the humans we become. Interesting, accessible and very down to earth, an absolute must read.

Are you pregnant and wanting to exercise - but not sure where to start?
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We have just the thing for you!
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We are so excited to be launching our 🆕 Small Group Prenatal Personal Training courses at the end of April in Brighton at and Hove ! 🤰
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They work just the same as our postnatal courses...an initial group consult followed by 6 weeks of training for just £135.
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Held in private gyms, our course has been designed to ensure you have the space and privacy needed to feel confident in your training.
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Limited to 8 people, we work with you to help you feel strong and supported through every trimester 💪 - and help you meet some other awesome mums along the way!
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🌟 Watch this space for when bookings go live 🌟Or drop us a DM to join our waiting list.
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Happy Mother's Day amazing Mums/Mams/Mummies/Madres! We thought this would be the perfect time to start sharing some birth stories...that moment you become a Mama!

Here's Beth's story from this time last year...due on Easter Sunday Addie arrived a days later...

I planned a home birth, I loved the idea of us going through the process in my own space and being able to be cosy and calm through the process. I ended up going to hospital which I knew might have be a possibility and I can 100% say i am glad I had the homebirth experience for the majority of my labour.

My waters broke early Tuesday and we went for a walk to get things moving. We then got cosy and watched some comedy. My surges started coming slowly and I put on a tens machine to help with the discomfort. I then ate about a bowl and a half of pasta knowing I might not feel like eating much!

My surges became more regular and we called a midwife out. I had an examination and I was 2cm dilated. I felt a bit uncomfortable after my examination and decided I would wait a while to get to know the next midwife before I decided if I wanted one again. I waited until my surges were stronger and called again. I held off on another examination and got into the pool for the first time. The birth pool really alleviated the pain and felt amazing.

I got examined again after about 4 hours and I was 4cm...it felt like pretty slow progress. At this point, a 3rd midwife came to take over and did some incredible acupressure which really alleviated my discomfort. Will, my partner, was looking after my drinking and eating and supporting me through every surge to stay calm and relaxed. At this stage, I got out of the pool to move things along more. I did some spinning babies moves which felt very uncomfortable but I knew they might help progress so just tried to breathe through it. I could feel a lot of pressure low down but again I wasn't fully dilated. From first calling the midwife I was having surges for 32 hours before I was fully dilated - I couldn't sit down as it was so uncomfortable so the hardest thing for me was just standing up a lot! The pool was the only place I could rest.

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🌶 💪 Top 3 buys to spice up your home workout 💪🌶
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Want more bang for your buck during your home workouts? Here are our top 3 pieces of equipment to add to your workouts / home gym…
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1. Trideer Pilates Ball: A great addition to add to hip thrusts, glute bridges and hydrants! Pop this ball between your knees (or knee for hydrants) to maintain form and increase glute and core engagement. Ps. Your toddler will love this light but bouncy ball too… 👶🏐
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2. Gritin Resistance Bands: Built to last, ombré colours corresponding to intensity and they come in a little pouch too. Resistance bands are our favourite piece of equipment to add into glute exercises…try adding them to squats, lateral tube walks, donkey kicks and hydrants. They’re also really easy to pack for a holiday workout too. 🧳 ☀️
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3. Proiron Adjustable Dumbbell Set: This awesome piece of kit can be used as dumbbells or easily converted into a barbell by screwing on an attachment bar. Allowing you to workout with weight ranging from 0.5kg-20kg in either plate, dumbbell or barbell form. It’s space saving, easy to assemble and offers enough variety to keep up with you as you get stronger. 💪 🏋️‍♀️
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All of these picks are available on
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Struggling to figure out how to exercise in pregnancy or postpartum? There’s no one size fits all approach to exercising in pregnancy and postpartum. Yes, there are some ‘safe' exercises but when it comes to how to modify and return to exercise but this won’t cater to every woman at all stages. Every Mama has a different history of fitness, strength - coupled alongside a unique experience of pregnancy and birth. 👶🤱🤰🏋️‍♀️🏃‍♀️

You will often get told to listen to your body during this time, this is often a bit unclear, you may think "well I could do this before?" ...So I can do it now right? Or I felt tired and stopped exercising for a a few months - what can I do now?

Next time you feel this way in pregnancy or postpartum think about the ‘risk versus reward’ of doing a certain move or exercise and that of not moving at all... Are the short term rewards or feeling of being able to lift a certain weight or run a certain distance worth the longer term risks? Equally should you get out for a walk or move your body for 20 minutes...the answer to this for your physical and mental health is normally... Absolutely!

Think about your body, it is / has grown a baby so your recovery will take time too. This phase of your life is a time to exercise safely...slowly modifying in pregnancy and safely returning to exercise after.

It can feel like you have to give up some things you love, there will be a time during your unique process where you need to opt for less impact, less speed, less weight but these things will return...there is no reason you can't be stronger, fitter or faster than you were before you became a Mama but give your body the time, patience and respect it deserves to get there❤️💪