3 Essential Lower Body Exercises For Your Second Trimester

Fitness & Nutrition
Written By editorsbeauty

In the second video of series 2, Charlie Launder, Head of Pre and Postnatal at Bumps & Burpees, guides Editor’s Beauty Director Alicia Irvine-MacDougall through three different lower body exercises ideal for woman in their second trimester of pregnancy.

Series 2: Second Trimester Episode 2: Lower Body

Production by Logan Irvine-MacDougall

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