Exercise after pregnancy with Dr. Michelle Mottola

Masters in Exercise

In this episode I speak with Dr. Michelle Mottola, Professor in the School of Kinesiology at University of Western Ontario, in Canada. Dr. Mottola has spent most of her research career studying exercise prescription in pregnant and post-partum women. This is the second time that Michelle comes to the podcast. In the first episode we discussed exercise prescription during pregnancy and in this episode we talk about exercise after giving birth. We tackle many interesting questions such as for example why women tend to decrease their PA levels after giving birth and what the benefits of exercise during the post-partum period are. We also learn that exercising with their infants could be a simple strategy for women to increase their levels of PA after pregnancy. You can follow Michelle's research at https://www.uwo.ca/fhs/EPL/.