Here are our top 5 Pre and postnatal online Pilates Classes (and why we love them):
Body Beyond Birth
What is involved: A 12-week programme throughout each stage of your pre and postnatal journey that you can choose from (as and when suits you). Read more here.
Choose what stage suits you:
- Pregnant: Perfect if you’re looking to stay fit, healthy and active during your pregnancy.
- Level 1: Perfect if you’ve just had a baby, you’ve recently had a C-section, or you’ve got an ab separation.
- Level 2: Perfect if you want to strengthen your pelvic floor, further heal your ab separation and sculpt your core with Pilates.
- Level 3: Perfect if you want to complement your existing exercise and challenge yourself with mum specific advanced Pilates exercise to sculpt your body.
What we love about it:
- Their programmes are made by Physiotherapists so are safely adapted to any potential injuries that come with pregnancy and birth.
- Each session is just 20 minutes long so they are easy to fit in to your day.
- The programmes are pre-planned for you to follow each week, building on strength, stability, balance and endurance in a gradual and safe way.
- They provide nutritional hints / tips and a guide to follow throughout the programme.
- They provide a progress-template for you to fill in at the start, middle and end of your programme so that you can see results (really helps with motivation).
- Membership involves a 1 off payment which gives you access to the full course.
Where to find more information:
The Pilates Guru Pre and Postnatal Programme
What is involved:
This site has something for everyone. You can sign up for the ‘Strong Mama, Healthy Baba’ course. This gives you unlimited access to all of the pre and postnatal online sessions. If you feel like you have recovered well then there is also the option to go on to the beginner, improver and advanced courses (for the same price).
What we love about it:
- There are over 40 Prenatal Specific, low-impact, pregnancy-safe sessions to choose from.
- There is a Postnatal Recovery Program which eases you back in to exercise nicely with 12 x 15 minute sessions.
- There are lots of different options of classes to choose from to suit you. You can also vary the time of the class from 30-60 minutes.
- You can cancel membership at any time, you pay on a weekly basis.
Where to find more information:
Pilates PT
What is involved:
The Pilates PT (AKA Holli Grant) is a well known Pilates instructor in London. Hollie created ‘The Bump Plan’ for pre and postnatal ladies, to enable them to build strength, knowledge and confidence through each stage of their pregnancy.
What we love about it:
- The workouts range from 20-30 minutes long, so they can easily fit into your busy schedule.
- Hollie is also pregnant whilst teaching the classes so moves through each stage with you, this helps to build confidence in safety and ability.
- The Bump Plan provides advice along the way, to help you look after your mental health and navigate any challenges you may experience during pregnancy.
- Once you have completed the postnatal classes, you have the option to continue working out with Hollie online with her other Pilates Classes available on the website.
- Whether you had a vaginal birth or a caesarean, The Bump Plan has a postnatal exercise phase to suit your circumstances and you can start at any point pre or postnatally.
Where to find more information:
The Belle Method
What is involved:
The Bump Method online programme was designed with an expert Pelvic Health Physiotherapist to support women’s health and fitness during pregnancy and postpartum recovery. They combine Pilates, functional movement and the latest in pelvic health research, all into a trimester-specific full body workout. You can read more about it HERE.
What we love about it:
- This is great for ladies with specific concerns like diastasis recti, incontinence, back pain etc or if you want to get back to a specific sport safely, like running.
- It is a different spin on the usual online class format. The sessions are more of an educational series labelled as a ‘syllabus’. They provide you with the building blocks you need to recover fully from birth.
- There are live classes that you can sign up to that teach specific things like:
- Reducing bladder incontinence
- Improving pelvic organ prolapse symptoms
- Improving fascial mobility for c-section recovery
- Reducing common back pain from feeding/holding babies
- It is a good programme to do if you just want to do 15 mins a day during your pregnancy.
- The website is quite extensive with recipes and workshops also available.
Where to find more information:
Ten Health and Fitness
What is involved:
Ten health are a boutique Health & Fitness Provider offering Pilates, Physiotherapy, Sports Massage, Personal Training & Fitness Classes. Ten fitness are different from a lot of other Pilates providers in that they offer 1:1 sessions via zoom to help tailor the workout to your needs. They are more of a healthcare provider than Pilates studio but that’s what sets them apart from others.
What we love about it:
- Sessions are tailored to your needs. Use Ten health if you are suffering with a specific issue and need to speak to someone in person.
- Sessions can be paid through insurance companies as they are recognised healthcare provider (and one with a good reputation).
- They offer online Physiotherapy and rehabilitation sessions also (1:1 via zoom).
- They also have a lots of prenatal Pilates classes available online (on demand) that are 45 minutes in duration and very easy to follow.
Where to find more information:
Take a look at our Top 5 Pilates / Yoga mats here.