Have you just had a baby?

Do you want to safely return to physical exercise but not sure how to do it without hurting yourself?

A Women’s Health Fitness Coach can help you! 

Receive customised fitness programming that meets you where you are at in your postpartum journey

Personalised, structured, periodised programming, using foundational movement pattern progressions to help you restore and retrain your body safely and effectively, after pregnancy.

Get support when it is needed most, because trying to be active whilst dealing with a new baby can feel overwhelming

A Women’s Health Fitness Coach takes the confusion out of returning to fitness be providing you with customised and safe return to fitness workout plans. Once less thing for you to have to think about!

Build confidence and learn strategies to take care of your physical and mental health daily

Guiding the postpartum Mama by providing daily emails that provide her with information and teach her strategies to nurture her body and her mind in the first days, weeks and months of recovery.

Receive evidence based and the most up to date postnatal information for an empowered recovery

A Women’s Health Fitness Coach does not believe that just because she is a mom herself, that she knows all there is to know about returning to fitness post pregnancy. She has studied, researched and become certified to specialise in pregnancy and post-natal fitness. You’re in safe hands.

Mary Cantrill - Mama to Declan & Maya

After having my first bub 2.5 years ago via emergency caesarean, I really had no clue what I should or shouldn’t be doing. I never saw a women’s health physio and didn’t follow any real program to get back to fitness, I kind of just dove right in and let my body cop it! Now I’m currently 6 months postpartum with baby no. 2 and feeling so much more confident that my body is actually being looked after, Thanks to you! You have a wealth of knowledge. Learning about proper pelvic floor activation and how to reduce abdominal separation has been invaluable and I know so many mamas who think that the best way to get rid of their ‘mum tum’ is to crunch it away or jump straight into sit ups and push ups. You’ve given us busy mamas one less thing to worry about! Thank you!!!

Sarah Renee Smith - Mama and CrossFit Coach

The last time I recovered postpartum, I totally left out these accessory movements and went straight to full on functional training. This is a much better process for sure. Just having done the open book movement after one day, I was more conscious of my posture while breastfeeding. Even though last time I still did progressions from easy to harder/heavier/more complex movements, I didn’t have a plan of attack. I just winged it and improvised based on what the class was doing that day. So I scaled movements and weights. Slowed it down. But it wasn’t a plan. As a fitness Coach myself, not having to make a fitness plan for myself it is even better!! I’m a firm believer that even coaches need coaches!

Allison Cole - Mama and Photographer/Business Owner

I had my daughter almost 7 months ago via a C-section and I wasn’t sure how my recovery was going to go. I reached out to Kylie about her FEMFITMAMA Program because I had been following her and trusted she knew her stuff. I started the program 12 weeks after my daughter was born. I’m able to move more freely now, I’m stronger, my mindset is so positive. It’s also allowed me to get back into things I love, like dance and Pole, without the worry of damaging my pelvic floor health. I can not thank Kylie enough for putting this program together. I truly think more women should be educated on their pelvic floor health before returning to exercise after birth or any other long period off of exercise.

FEMFITMAMA is designed to take the confusion and anxiety out of returning to fitness postpartum, by incorporating safe return to exercise strategies and methods that you won’t necessarily learn trying to return to exercise on your own.

FEMFITMAMA uses my “Restore to Retrain Protocol” to help you restore your function post pregnancy, educating you on how to retrain your core and floor muscles, and utilizing “Foundational Movement Patterns” to help you return to doing the physical activity you love.

FEMFITMAMA guides you through fun and effective workouts that help you to build a solid base of fitness, safely transitioning you back to more intense exercise, whilst ensuring you remain pain free and avoid pelvic floor dysfunction.

There are many done for you, post pregnancy fitness programs on the market. Sure, you can try to find a self-paced program or follow along with random workouts online. But what’s important to take into consideration is that many of the done for you programs and free workouts aren’t designed for your specific needs. They have been designed for someone else. Not to mention that postpartum recovery and pelvic health aren’t taught in any mainstream fitness certifications.

When your body is recovering from birth, your muscles and tendons remain weak for a while. It pays to remember that your body needs time to fully “restore” or you could risk injury to joints or pelvic floor dysfunction. It is vital that you learn how to “restore” your pelvic floor and deep core muscles first, to assist with healing. It is also crucial to know how to intelligently “progress” the “Foundational Movement Patterns” to regain or maintain your movement quality and strength whilst retraining post pregnancy.

You need a certified Women's Health Fitness Coach who has almost 10 years experience in fitness and is qualified to coach postnatal women. I am also a mother, so I totally empathise with the demands Mamas face when trying to fit in exercise with a busy family and work life schedule.

The “Restore to Retrain Protocol” I use in my FEMFITMAMA program, will support your whole body as you transition back into exercise post-pregnancy.

You will also be introduced to my “Foundational Movement Progression Method” which will help you set a good foundation of quality movement and strength for injury free training for years to come.

Both of these are invaluable training tools that will help you to gently strengthen your pelvic floor and core in coordination with foundational movement patterns and their progressions.

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From unhealthy and overweight to Latin Dance & Zumba Instructor…

Once I learned that I needed to enjoy the physical activity I was doing, it became much easier to adhere to it regularly. I also learned that the right education, guidance and support around eating and moving my body were definite requirements for achieving my weight loss goals.

I went onto joining local dance groups and quickly fell in love with how my body felt when I was moving it. I had been able to adopt a new lifestyle, enjoying the way exercise made me feel, from having more energy to feeling strong and fit in my body.

In 2003 I started teaching for local dance schools. Then in 2005, I started my own dance school called 4 The Love of Dance, where for 10 years I taught kids and adults to dance and keep fit. With a new found love of dancing and a body that now preferred to be moving constantly, unlike the sedentary one I used to have, I soon discovered other forms of physical activity that I enjoyed. 

I found Zumba Fitness and I was soon addicted. I quickly became a certified Zumba Fitness Instructor and added Zumba Fitness to the program within my own dance school.

Something I hadn’t bargained on, was the positive impact strength training had on my mental health. Ladies, don’t be afraid to lift some heavy weights.

I had been doing cardio, cardio and more cardio which really helped me to lose a lot of weight but something was missing. I felt cardiovascular fit but I had no muscular endurance, strength or muscle definition.

Whilst I was teaching group fitness at my local gym, I became curious about the area in the gym with all the heavy weights. It looked intimidating to me but also like a lot of fun. I asked a friend to show me around and that’s how I was introduced to strength training..

I used to be ‘that woman’ that thought by lifting weights I would end up looking beefy and bulky. What I actually discovered was that strength training helped me to feel confident, strong and independent. It helped me to fight off Osteoporosis and improved my lower back pain.

I decided to pursue my dream of helping women to become fit, functional and fulfilled!

I was pretty fed up with the BS that women were being fed by companies that only wanted to profit of off women’s insecurities. I thought it was time to be the change, to provide a fresh approach to personal training. I wanted to help women to accept and nurture their bodies whilst giving them the coaching and care that they deserved and needed.

After 15 years of working in the Northern Territory Department of Health, in a job I was no longer enjoying, I decided I needed to narrow my focus and realised that I had experience and expertise that could help other women, just like myself, to become fit, functional and more fulfilled in life.

I realised that the fitness industry was underserving women just like me. I wanted women to learn they could get fit and healthy without getting stressed out about food, without spending hours in the gym punishing their bodies every day and without hating themselves because they don’t fit some perceived ideal of what they should or shouldn’t look like.

Terrell Baldock taught me her Training for Lady Parts Method that I use with all my clients today!

I initially rehabilitated with a Women’s Health Physiotherapist who taught me how to breathe, do Kegels properly, and eased me back into moving my body gently once I had a pessary in place. She was so understanding and empathetic. 

However, what I discovered was that there were no personal trainers in my local area that specialized in training the postpartum athlete, most used conservative approaches that had Mamas forever locked in the cycle of doing glute bridges and Kegels.

Then I found my Prolapse Coach, Terrell Baldock in Canada, and initially did her online Strength and Lady Parts program. Then I began working one on one with her as a Founding Member of her Online 60 Day Body Revitalisation Program. 

We blended rehabilitative tips and cues with challenging, high-intensity training. She taught me the Training for Lady Parts Method I now use in all my fitness training programs, and I learned how to engage my core and support my pelvic floor during technical lifts. She taught me how to release tension and gave me progressions (scaled versions) of the exercises, which gave me the confidence to train again.

My postpartum fitness journey highlighted to me that there is a shortage of personal trainers within the Fitness Industry, with the understanding, empathy, skills and experience to work with Mamas, to help them to RESTORE and RETRAIN their bodies postpartum.

That is what drove me to become the Women’s Health Fitness Coach that could make a difference to women’s health and fitness journeys.

FEMFITMAMA is non-judgmental and promotes the idea that self care and self acceptance are the keys to becoming fulfilled in life. 

FEMFITMAMA encourages self acceptance whilst still wanting to better yourself physically and mentally at what ever stage of life you are at.

FEMFITMAMA educates, supports and guides Mamas to become fit, functional and fulfilled in life.

FEMFITMAMA recognises all Mamas! Regardless of your shape, size, age, religion, sexual orientation, education or ethnicity, we will tap into your uniqueness and your strengths, to ensure your program fits you and your needs.

FEMFIMAMA guides you with holistic approaches to health and fitness. You will receive up to date, evidence based education around exercise, nutrition and healthy lifestyle habits.

Kylie kept in contact with me providing support, motivation and understanding of the challenges that Mums face having a new-born and dealing with the emotions that come with the fourth trimester…

I started with Coach Kylie with very little experience, training and fitness. I was 4 months pregnant, I wanted to get fit and stay healthy during my pregnancy while in a safe environment with someone I could trust. Kylie provided me confidence with my body to complete exercises that would prepare me for the arrival of my baby and labour. There were times during the pregnancy where I didn’t feel up to training (and even fainted!!) however Kylie was always there to assist me with my fitness goals and recommendations with the health of my mind, body and growing baby bump.

Unfortunately, I had a long and difficult labour that resulted in taking a break from training to allow my body to repair to avoid any long-term side effects. During this time Kylie kept in contact with me providing support, motivation and understanding of the challenges that Mums face having a newborn and dealing with the emotions that come with the fourth trimester. Having a Coach that has gone through these experiences as a mother herself, Kylie could relate to the sleepless nights and post body changes.  

I am now back in training post pregnancy and loving it. My little man attends our PT sessions so Kylie gets lots of cuddles while I can train in a relax, social environment while getting fit and having fun at the same time. I am motivated and confident with my training; this wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support that Coach Kylie provides in her one-on-one sessions.

Coach Kylie is not just my personal trainer but a friend that I am grateful to have in my life!!