Birth To Barbells

Birth To Barbells Two Kelowna-based practitioners who are passionate about empowering moms to get strong together.

Postpartum exercise myths we’re leaving behind 👋• Myth 1: Your 6-week clearance means you can go back to pre-pregnancy w...
03/09/2026

Postpartum exercise myths we’re leaving behind 👋

• Myth 1: Your 6-week clearance means you can go back to pre-pregnancy workouts.
👉 It simply means healing is progressing — not that your body is fully ready for high impact or heavy load.

• Myth 2: You just need to do Kegels.
👉 The pelvic floor needs coordination, relaxation, and strength — not just endless squeezing.

• Myth 3: Postpartum recovery is all about abs.
👉 Real core work includes breathing, pressure management, diaphragm work, pelvic floor, glutes, back, and deep core — not just crunches.

• Myth 4: Stop all core work if you have diastasis recti.
👉 The right core training actually helps improve function and support healing.

• Myth 5: Prolapse or pelvic floor dysfunction is something you just have to live with.
👉 With proper rehab, education, and training, many symptoms can significantly improve.

Postpartum bodies deserve education, progression, and support — not outdated advice. 💛

03/08/2026

To the Women…

Here at BTB we are so honoured to be surrounded by your power, laughs, kindness, and love. We are in awe of your strength and your softness. We consider ourselves lucky to be a part of your prenatal and postpartum story.

Our greatest joy is watching you become stronger every day and watching your most loved ones grow before our eyes.

Thank you for another year of laughs, hugs, high fives, chats, baby smiles!

Your trust, community, and strength mean the world to us ❤️❤️

To our mamas, and their sweet babies and partners beside them, we are so grateful to be a part of your journey ☺️

Love, Brigitte and Alanna

You’re invited to Birth to Barbells’s first…📢YAPPY HOUR📢YAPPY HOUR is your morning for learning from professionals in yo...
03/04/2026

You’re invited to Birth to Barbells’s first…
📢YAPPY HOUR📢

YAPPY HOUR is your morning for learning from professionals in your community, meeting other parents, enjoying a coffee and snack, and letting your kids and babies play in a safe and fun environment while you get lots of new information on all things parenting!

Our March Yappy Hour is “Emotional Regulation for Littles”! This talk and Q+A will highlight the basics of building secure attachments in toddlers and fostering emotional regulation skills, presented by Aravis Walters MACP, RCC.

Coffee, beverages, and snacks for both you and your kiddos will available. We will also have an engaging open play space to keep your kids busy while you learn!

Tickets: $25 for members, $35 for non-members and $55 for (non-member) couples!!

Go to https://www.birthtobarbells.com/event-details/yappy-hour to get your tickets! Limited spots available!

We hear you mammas 💕Our classes have been filling up (and we LOVE that), but we want to make sure as many of you as poss...
03/03/2026

We hear you mammas 💕

Our classes have been filling up (and we LOVE that), but we want to make sure as many of you as possible get a chance to love, connect, and hang out with us! To help open more spots and keep things fair, we are making a couple small changes:

Booking window: classes can be booked up to two weeks in advance.

Cancellation policy: you can cancel UP TO THREE HOURS BEFORE CLASS without penalty. Cancellations made within three hours will forfeit your punch (or payment). You can DM us as well so we can open the spot to others!

These updates will help waitlisted mammas get into class and ensure spots don’t go unused :) Thank you for growing with us and being such an incredible community!

Can’t wait to see you in class ❤️

01/26/2026

POV: we let the moms decide the new merch colour combos and honestly….they ate 💅🏻

Mom-approved gym-wear that is really everything-wear. If you’re wearing this, you’re part of the club.

New gym merch is officially out.

01/15/2026

Hey Kelowna moms 📣

Are you looking for a Pilates based class that helps you strengthen and stretch while being mindful of pregnancy? Join us Monday evenings at 6pm for a class led by our Pilates guru

This class is BABY FRIENDLY, so if you are on the postpartum side of your baby journey, pack them up and bring them with you (or leave them with dad) while we work on reengaging your deep core and healing your core!

Find us at birthtobarbells.com for class signups, passes, and memberships!

✨MOMENTUM COLLECTIVE SERIES PT 5✨MEET SONJA👋🏻Sonja is a physiotherapist and mom to one! She uses acupuncture, dry needli...
01/11/2026

✨MOMENTUM COLLECTIVE SERIES PT 5✨

MEET SONJA👋🏻

Sonja is a physiotherapist and mom to one! She uses acupuncture, dry needling, and Pilates to help special populations like pregnancy and postpartum.

You can find her at her home clinic in Black Mountain 🏠

Hey Sonja!

01/03/2026

MEET CASSIDY🙋🏻‍♀️

We are SO excited to welcome Cass to our team at Birth to Barbells!! We can’t wait for you to meet her!

Cassidy is a Certified Pilates Instructor with her degree in Human Kinetics and a background in teaching high school. She is a mom of a one year old and loves teaching all things Prenatal/Postpartum!

Come catch Cassidy at our NEWEST class - Mondays at 6-7pm for Strength and Stretch.

This class is PERFECT for those in pregnancy looking to keep moving and strengthening throughout and prepare for birth as well as postpartum moms wanting to continue healing core and pelvic floor and complement their strength training with some MUCH needed mobility 💪🏻🏋️‍♀️🙆‍♀️🧘‍♀️

Say Hi to Cass and come join us Mondays at 6

Just had a baby and not sure where to start on your healing? 🤔😕We hear a lot of talk about healing your pelvic floor, bu...
01/02/2026

Just had a baby and not sure where to start on your healing? 🤔😕

We hear a lot of talk about healing your pelvic floor, but also making sure your abs are recovering and you are closing your diastasis recti (abdominal separation). What is more important? Is one more important? Where do I start? 🤷🏼‍♀️ It can feel overwhelming!

Pelvic floor and abdominal healing is all about PRESSURE MANAGEMENT 💨 We will say it every day as often as we need to so the people in the back know!! 🗣️🗣️

If we begin our recovery by overloading the abdominals to focus on ab healing that puts a lot of PRESSURE on our 360 core system. Later on, in our healing, this is great! This will help us strengthen our core! 💪🏻

But before we add pressure we need to make sure our 360 system (including our pelvic floor) can HANDLE this pressure! That means working on getting that pelvic floor to contract, relax, and reduce unnecessary tension so the base of our system can handle that increased pressure load. 😰

Without having a functional pelvic floor, this increased pressure can lead to pain, leaking, tension, or prolapse.

So make sure you are working on that PELVIC FLOOR before adding progressive core work to your recovery! 🏋🏼‍♂️

Not sure where to start? We still have 1 more spot in our Winter Postpartum Fitness + Recovery Series starting January 6 in Kelowna BC!! DM or email to snag the last spot ‼️

Ok we had a 💥BIG💥2025 here at BTB! Check out our year wrapped! January - we officially became a BUSINESS! We had been ru...
12/30/2025

Ok we had a 💥BIG💥2025 here at BTB!
Check out our year wrapped!

January - we officially became a BUSINESS! We had been running our 6 week Postpartum Fitness + Recovery program since 2022 and this year we put on our big girl pants and decided to register as our own business!

February - we announced STRONG MOM CLUB - a place where moms and moms to be could workout and feel STRONG and SAFE

March - we had our first ever branding shoot with the amazing .photography and felt famous for a day

April - we kicked off STRONG MOM CLUB classes and have been obsessed with it (and holding your babies)

May - we ran our Spring Postpartum Fitness + Recovery series for a new group of postpartum moms! We also hosted our first “Women in Health” networking event with and it was a huge success!

June - cue Alanna and Brigitte screaming at each other on the phone when we found out we won GOLD in Best Prenatal Class in our first year of business!!!

July - started our “Hot Mom Walk + Talk” at Strathcona Beach - a free and inclusive walking group open to everyone! We also hosted again in October with our friends .counselling +

August - started our STRONG MOM LIFT classes where pre/postpartum mom could learn the foundational skills and adjustments for heavy strength training to safely lift!

September - we found our new home where we could run all our classes, have access to heavy weights, AND have room for all your busy kiddos!

October - we ran our Fall Postpartum Fitness + Recovery Series and had a great group of strong moms!

November - we continued running our STRONG FAM CLUB classes which have proven to be the most energetic, chaotic, and fun family friendly ways to start your weekend!

December - we launched our MERCH collection (available on our website) as well as hosted our CHRISTMAS CLUB family friendly workout fundraiser before our holiday break and we didn’t stop smiling the whole class

We couldn’t have done it without you!!! 😍😍😍
See you in 2026!!

12/27/2025

Does your 2026 look like you might be looking for some prenatal classes??? 😳

We are your team! A friendly holiday reminder ALL our classes are prenatal and postpartum friendly!

‼️AND now offering Monday 6-7pm Strength and Stretch class! PERFECT for those any phase of pregnancy to focus on strengthening and mobilizing to keep you moving through pregnancy and prepared for child birth!

Happy Holidays 😏

12/23/2025

Ok ok ok ok we heard you! 📣📣

This sweater is already a best seller for our merch after just a few days of being available! And because you love it so much we’ve added it in MORE COLOURS! ❤️💙💜🖤💛💚🧡

Strong mom Club Hoodie now available in:
⚫️Black
🟤Coffee
⚪️Oat Gray
🟣 Dark Purple
🔘Gray
🔵Navy Blue
💓Gray Apricot
$65 CAD +tax/shipping

Want to see this sweater in stock at our gym? Let us know in the DMs and comments! You can order this sweater NOW in our online shop on our website!

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