#13 Changing Course with Kids, Finding Your New Identity and Pre-and-Post Natal Fitness - a podcast by Michelle Boyde

My guest today is Anna Kooiman, the creator of Strong Sexy Mammas: a virtual, home fitness for busy mammas.  She is an American TV personality who left a wildly successful career in New York City to move to Sydney to start a family with her Aussie husband. They now have a 2.5-year-old and 6-month-old. Baby Annabel joined us for today’s podcast record – you’ll hear her chiming in!

Anna has a long list of women’s fitness certifications including Pre and Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist, Diastasis and Core Consultant. She teaches classes in some of Sydney most sought-after boutique fitness studios. So, you can catch both her Strong Sexy Mammas Video on Demand home fitness classes and live in-person classes around Bondi.

Anna comes from a family of entrepreneurs. She is also a proud board member of the Bondi Beach Chamber of Commerce and loves being a cheerleader for her new community that has been so good to her husband and kids.

In this episode we chatted about changing course with young kids, finding your new identity and pre- and post-natal fitness:

• [2.38] Overwhelming when we have our kids, my skills are not necessarily translating. Exciting to go back to my routes in fitness.
• [3.44] Social media numbers – don’t be fooled, nobody knows what the hell they’re doing!
• [4.14] Anna wanted to be a dolphin trainer, then a physical therapist, then she wanted to do TV (which she did) and now personal training. 
• [6.07] There are four types of learning; Visual, through seeing; auditory through listening; kinaesthetic through doing and auditory digital, learning through facts and figures.
• [6.45] Strong Sexy Mamas is more than simply tightening your tum and booty. 
• [7.28] In pre-natural and post-natal women centre of gravity shifts, booty goes back causes issues like back pain and incontinence. 
• [8.36] Anna is about more than before and after photos. In the Strong Sexy Mamas challenge every Friday they do the Cardio Sculpture Fitness Tracker.
• [11.00] The things about post-natal that are not always talked about: Weeing yourself! 
• [13.08] Pelvic floor is the taboo subject. If you have a well-functioning pelvic floor, who central canister function well. 
• [16.44] Mental health can be something that a lot of mum’s struggle with as we try to find out new identity. Hormones and sleep deprivation.
• [17.00] What feels good to them. Sometimes we make excuses, but sometimes we really are too tired. Then you don’t have to exercise, rest is more important.
• [18.19] Preparing your body before you have your child, Anna’s tip to do this.
• [20.30] Labour training and toddler tantrum training – moderate intensity training. 
• [21.57] Anna’s tips, they want to change their careers but also want to start or grow their family.
• [25.10] The future: Strong Sexy Mamas becomes the go to place for an active, smooth pregnancy and an empowered and speed post-partum recovery. 

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