5 Prenatal Pilates Moves For Strengthening Your Core and Glutes

Also called a Good Morning, this exercise keeps the glutes and hamstrings active while also challenging your back extensors, Grant says.

• Stand with your feet parallel and hip-width distance apart. Keep your knees soft, your pelvis neutral, and your shoulders relaxed, back, and down.
• Bring your hands into the prayer position at your chest.
• Inhale, and bow forward. Bend from your hips as far as your hamstrings will allow while maintaining a neutral spine. You don't want to go lower than hip height.
• Exhale to press your feet into the ground and slowly return to the start position. This counts as one rep.
• Repeat for 12 to 14 reps.