Regaining strength after pregnancy has been a real challenge. Despite a solid regimen and lots of consistency, my core muscles haven’t returned to their pre-pregnancy abilities.

Wanting to up the ante a bit, I decided to add weighted heel taps to my current core program for a month.

Once my doctor signed off on my challenge, I started to do the exercise 10 times every day on each side. You may like

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Here are my observations after a month of weighted heel taps. Spoiler alert: my ab

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