26: Meg Scanlon, International Powerlifting Champion AND Mom!

Listen as we chat with Meg Scanlon, who placed first in the International Powerlifting Federation World Classic Powerlifting Championship in 2022, and second in 2023. She was around 19 months postpartum after a Caesarean birth with twin girls when she won a gold medal! Meg will be sharing her postpartum return to competitive lifting and the challenges she had along the way to earn her title as world champion.

In This Episode:

• How workouts for a competitive athlete changed during pregnancy (2:26)
• HELLP (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelets) Syndrome (6:01)
• Healing from a C-Section while caring for twins (9:42)
• Meg’s timeline back to competitive power lifting after birth (11:03)
• How do workouts look now with twins running around? (13:42)
• Meg’s views on the “do’s and don’t’s” of working out while pregnant (16:54)
• Core exercises to help stabilize and build density in the core postpartum (19:41)
• Advice to other competitive athletes in the postpartum (20:56 and 31:17))
• Working with a Pelvic Floor PT during and after pregnancy (27:15)
• Pelvic Floor symptoms to watch out for during exercise (30:30)

Find Meg on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/megscanlift/?hl=en

Meg's Website here: https://www.megscanlift.com/

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