Training for Two: Safe & Smart Prenatal Exercises for a Smoother Pregnancy, Easier Birth, and Healthier Newborn

Go beyond traditional pregnancy fitness with this trimester-based program of safe, smart prenatal exercises to help you build strength, maintain fitness, and prepare your body for childbirth.

＂Should I exercise while pregnant?＂ The answer is a resounding yes! Strength-based prenatal exercises have been proven to lead to a variety of positive health outcomes. Safe to perform in most cases, they can actively lead to a smoother and healthier pregnancy, better labor experience, faster recovery, and possibly even a healthier newborn.

Written by Gina Conley, a certified personal trainer specializing in prenatal fitness and registered birth doula, Training for Two is the active woman’s guide to exercising while expecting. Unlike other pregnancy fitness books that take a more general approach, Training for Two specifically focuses on strengthening the body and preparing it to give birth.

Research-backed and comprehensive, this definitive prenatal fitness guide features over 200 photos to help you absorb the material and perform the movements with confidence. Organized by trimester, the book includes:

• Common strength-focused exercises like squats, deadlifts, lunges, and rows, modified as necessary to be safely and comfortably performed while pregnant
• Easy exercises and workouts to open the body and prepare for labor
• An overview of common pregnancy complications and how they affect your exercise regimen
• A postpartum chapter focusing on recovery and mobility in the first six weeks after birth
• What to expect and what questions to ask during your prenatal appointments
• And more!

Based on the popular prenatal fitness programs and childbirth classes offered by MamasteFit, Training for Two aims to educate, support, and empower expectant mamas everywhere to stay strong and comfortable during their pregnancy and delivery.

This is the perfect book for expectant athletes, trainers, fitness enthusiasts, experienced gym goers, and active women looking for a more serious approach to prenatal fitness.

Gina Conley holds an MS in Exercise Science and is the Founder/CEO of MamasteFit, an industry-leading perinatal fitness provider with a training facility located in Aberdeen, North Carolina. Aside from her work as a personal trainer specializing in perinatal fitness, Gina is a seasoned birth doula who has supported nearly 200 births in North Carolina. She is also a 7-year Army Veteran who served a combat tour to Afghanistan in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Freedom Sentinel.

Roxanne Albert graduated from the State University of New York The College at Brockport with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2012. She did a capstone project on a labor and delivery ward during nursing school. This is when she fell in love with birth work and made it her goal to become a labor and delivery nurse. Upon graduation, she commissioned into the Army Nurse Corp, where she worked as a nurse on both postpartum and labor and delivery units. She left the Army in Oct 2019 after the birth of her first child. She worked as a labor and delivery nurse at different hospitals and a free-standing birth center. Currently, she is working with Mamastefit and completing her Master’s program in Midwifery at Frontier Nursing University.