Fit Your Life

Connect your mind and body to breath and movement in the final weeks of your pregnancy while also connecting with other moms! This amazing community of women will encourage, inspire, and motivate you as you eagerly await the day you meet your baby for the first time! We are extremely excited to announce our brand new @Term Initiative! At Fit Your Life, we are passionate about safely and effectively encouraging women to exercise throughout their pregnancy. Labour requires physical and psychological strength and stamina. Training for this incredible event in your life will increase your confidence in being prepared in body and mind.  On the foundation of this passion, we have created the @Term Initiative! All women 37 weeks and greater, until the day their baby arrives, is eligible to attend FYL classes at no cost!  The small print: After 37 weeks gestation (must be 37+0 according to early ultrasound dates)...

This has been a humbling journey for me. Not only seeing a physiotherapist for assessment and treatment, but also journaling about my journey through this blog series. Writing about my experience has allowed me to reflect and dig deeper into learning about my own body. My last blog post explained my initial assessment with Bounce Back Physical Therapy and diagnoses. If you didn’t read it yet you can find it here ! I want to now take you on my journey through my “homework”, three follow-up visits, and what being “discharged” means to me. Homework At each appointment – the initial and follow-ups – Jillian gave me a series of stretches, exercises, and tips to implement into my daily routine. As the list grew, I would often feel overwhelmed with how to sneak it all in. What made it feel more manageable was when I remembered our discussion about how it’s okay to be imperfect and really that our goal is to have perfect alignment and engagement available to us. I actually came t...

It has been two months since my first appointment at Bounce Back Physical Therapy with Jillian Palmer.  I have had some ups and downs with my recovery but overall I have been loving the experience.  I have loved learning more about how my body functions and being able to apply what I'm learning from a women's health expert to my classes. Over the course of this two month span I have had appointments every two weeks to try to find a solution for the symptoms I was experiencing.   If you want to know more about the beginning part of my journey, my symptoms and diagnoses, or Kellie’s journey, please click here and read the first four posts in our series.   I’m going to take you back to where I left off after my last post and share with you my experience of trying to find better function in my pelvic floor and close the abdominal separation I have.   I feel like Jillian, or any physio therapist for that matter, is like Sherlock Holmes, trying to sol...