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Katy Bowman – Diastasis Recti: The Whole-Body Solution to Abdominal Weakness and Separation*** elib exclusive ***Quote:This book’s exercise program is designed to be gentle and effective for diastasis recti, core weakness, pelvic floor disorders including pelvic organ prolapse, and general hypermobility.DIASTASIS RECTI, AN UNNATURAL SEPARATION OF THE ABDOMINAL MUSCLES, IS NOT JUST A “WEAK CORE.” IT’S A SYMPTOM OF A WHOLE-BODY PROBLEM.Your abdominal muscles have many important jobs—helping you do everything from twisting your spine to singing, accommodating pregnancy, and protecting your abdominal organs. They should not be splitting down the middle.In Diastasis Recti: The Whole-Body Solution to Abdominal Weakness and Separation, biomechanist Katy Bowman explains the larger picture when it comes to DR—including body alignment; frequency of movement; the effects of all-day forces, like intra-abdominal pressure; and why focusing on doing a few exercises doesn’t often result in long-term success. You must learn a new way to move for an improved set of core muscles.Diastasis Recti presents:• why it’s better to think of a diastasis as a symptom than as “the problem”• how your current movement habits can be worsening your separation• five postural adjustments to make immediately• why mainstream core exercises like crunches and planks can make a diastasis worse• how to sit, stand, and walk for a stronger “whole body” coreWith over 30 exercises and habit modifications, this book presents a whole-body corrective program to address the forces overloading the core in the first place. Diastasis Recti is for any man or woman wanting to improve both the appearance and the function of their abdomen.Open for everyoneNumber of pages: 240Year of publication: 2015Url:https://www.amazon.com/Diastasis-Recti-Whole-Body-Abdominal-…Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (83 reviews)Amazon 5 star review wrote:Start here! My doctors had no clue and were telling me to do all of the wrong exercises, which only makes DR worse! Katy’s exercises are great and the info is useful so you don’t make your DR worse as you go through your every day life. Katy also has a website/blog where, for a small fee, you can watch videos of her doing the exercises – totally worth it! – and a podcast where you can also get more info, and some videos on YouTube. But the book is the foundation, the explanation, and has a summary with everything in one place. This info is necessary for managing DR, but for some reason is very very hard to come by from doctors, personal trainers, physical therapists, and gym programs!Amazon 5 star review wrote:Two babies. Three operations. One car accident. All too much for an ageing body. This author’s ideas really work. I just followed the simple program exercises in the book. They are simple but tiring. After a month my body is really changing into a shape that I have always wanted. Very impressed. Well worth the price and effort.Amazon 5 star review wrote:T3 years after my second kid was born, despite return to my morning yoga / strength / walking routine, I had still had a pretty wide Diastasis Recti. (Important to note: this book talks about and helps solve this issue even if it had nothing to do with pregnancy! Guys can have Diastasis Recti too!)I found one of those “28 day” online excercise routines and did it (it was tedious), with some improvement. But at the end of it, I still had some separation and worse, I didn’t know what those exercises did for me and whether I ought to be modifying any of the rest of my standard morning stretches to avoid aggravating it. The internet had a lot of generic advice (“no twists! No planks!”) but not a lot of rationale or specifics.Enter Katy Bowman’s Diastasis Recti book. It explained why and how the separation was formed and maintained, and gave me the information I needed to (most importantly) change my posture in my daily life so that I wasn’t constantly straining and weakening the linea alba (the part that stretches to allow the separation), and also to help me understand how to modify my morning exercises to strengthen and loosen the rest of my abdominal / waist / shoulder / hip muscles instead of stressing out the linea alba.A month later, my Diastasis Recti is compeletely gone, and I feel empowered to keep it that way. Thanks, Katy!May you find the LIFE and LOVE,Aeon