MOM BOD

Many new moms (and seasoned pros!) deal with diastasis recti—or ab separation—but Every Mother is the only workout scientifically proven to resolve it!

Every Mother founder Leah Keller had her own personal experience with diastasis recti before going on to start her innovative workout program. “Years before I had my children, I actually self-induced diastasis recti, or abdominal separation, from the vigorous classes I taught as a young fitness professional,” Keller tells Mini. “It was a mild case of exercise-induced DR, and I fully resolved it by radically changing how I approached core training, long before my first pregnancy. Through following my own program, I entirely avoided diastasis recti during both of my pregnancies.”

Every Mother’s EMbody Programs help women prevent and resolve diastasis recti through healthy engagement of the deep core muscles: the transverse abdominis (your natural corset), the pelvic floor and the diaphragm, in a synergistic coordination to reduce intra-abdominal pressure and facilitate recovery of strength, elasticity and integrity in the muscles and connective tissue. When correctly engaged, these deep core muscles also trigger a healthy co-contraction of the rectus abdominis (the “6-pack” muscles that have stretched apart if DR is present) and the lumbar multifidus, a tiny muscle along the spine that’s vital for back health. As women resolve diastasis recti with Every Mother’s Core Compression™ exercises and our comprehensive workouts, all of which incorporate a Core Compression into every rep of every exercise, they also report alleviation of back pain, urinary incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction.

Our workout libraries include a wide variety of 10-30 minute strength, cardio strength and restorative workouts, and we’re adding new content all the time. Every single workout incorporates clear, specific coaching on proper core engagement, breathing and alignment to achieve optimal results while safely strengthening the core. Even for an isolated exercise such as a biceps curl, Every Mother’s videos coach you through the subtleties of how to work your core with that curl as much (or more than) it works your biceps. With Every Mother, you learn to generate your power from healthy engagement of the deep core. We coordinate activation of the transverse abdominis, the pelvic floor, and diaphragm into every move to promote and protect core health, strength and function.

Every Mother is the only exercise program with published medical research that proves it works to resolve diastasis recti postnatally. In 2013, researchers at Weill Cornell conducted a study of 63 women following my exercise program. 100% of those subjects fully resolved diastasis recti. Those subjects also reported dramatically lower rates of back pain and urinary stress incontinence than the general population, suggesting additional health benefits. Currently, Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC is heading up a randomized, controlled trial of our EMbody Reclaim program to further explore the efficacy and benefits of Every Mother’s revolutionary approach to core and total body training.