Episode 8: Pelvic Floor with Kendra Fitzgerald of Devoted Mamas
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Episode 8: Rest is Just Important as Engagement + Your Pelvic Floor with Kendra Fitzgerald of Devoted Mamas
“Your muscles need to rest as much as they engage. They can only engage as much as they rest. Your body is the same.” —Kendra Fitzgerald
I can’t wait for you to LISTEN to this podcast with Kendra Fitzgerald.
Kendra is a Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist, Personal Trainer, and Yoga Teacher. She is also the co-founder of Devoted Mamas a virtual studio with courses to help you be strong and vibrant in pregnancy and postpartum.
Our conversation starts with rest, which is vital, we also chat about awareness in your body (how are you holding your body, are you compensating or clenching) and your pelvic floor. Kendra also talks about the SECRET to her delicious salads (she even shouts out my More Than Salad course).
The pelvic floor is the foundation of our strength in our body. Kendra also CHALLENGES you to check in on your posture during everyday activities and even during exercise like Peloton.
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I can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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About Kendra Fitzgerald
Kendra is a Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist, Personal Trainer, and Yoga Teacher, teaching privately in New York City and Montclair, NJ. She is also the co-founder of Devoted Mamas a virtual studio with online courses that help you be strong and vibrant in pregnancy and postpartum.
Her years of experience with and curiosity about the human body have informed Kendra’s method of training, which focuses on alignment, proper form and corrective exercise to help her clients live pain free.
Education has offered Kendra the platform for groundbreaking industry innovation, thus she credits her success to the mastery of her work and unparalleled attention to detail. A graduate of Dr. Sarah Duvall's Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist Program, The BioMechanics Method, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Yoga Works and certified by ACE, Kendra has completed extensive complimentary education in anatomy, physiology, kinesiology as well as corrective exercise, injury prevention and rehabilitation, sports coaching.
Kendra has been featured on The Today Show, in Men’s Fitness, Shape, CNN, The Tampa Tribune, Curve, New York Daily News, AM New York, and TimeOut New York, and as a cover model on Yoga Zeit magazine.
Kendra is most well known for melding her clinical expertise with creativity and a lighthearted perspective. At the end of the day, she understands that her clients are real people with real lives, it is her job to help them tune into the power of their own bodies.
In addition to being a private trainer and teacher, Kendra is also the Founder & Director of Barefoot Tiger LLC, a world-class private fitness concierge company in NYC with 24 teachers and trainers on staff.
When she’s not working, Kendra loves to hang out with family (and her sister!), travel, go running, and having dance parties and pillow fights with her two sons.
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