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PRENATAL COACHING

When your client tells you she’s pregnant, know where to start—and how to move forward.

Evidence-informed education for fitness professionals exploring the physiology of pregnancy, maternal and foetal development, and how to translate that understanding into client-centred coaching to support your clients through pregnancy and into motherhood.

Register your interest in Prenatal Coaching for course details and launch announcements, so you’re ready when enrolment opens.

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Understand what’s changing, and what it means for your client.

From questions about exercise safety to managing expectations and knowing when to adapt, connect your understanding of pregnancy with the conversations and practical decisions you navigate as a coach.

What the course will explore ↴

  • Explore maternal adaptations and foetal development across the three trimesters. Understand what these changes can mean for exercise, symptoms and recovery, and how this knowledge shapes your coaching throughout pregnancy.

  • Learn where to find current guidance from recognised governing bodies, how to interpret it and how to apply it to your client’s health, pregnancy status, training history and individual needs. Understand exercise benefits, contraindications and when further advice may be needed.

  • Apply your learning to exercise selection, intensity, progression and recovery. Recognise when adaptations may be needed, what to adjust and how to review your client’s response, taking account of her symptoms, training history, goals and capacity.

  • Understand how pregnancy can influence your client’s relationship with training, recovery, her body and her expectations. Build rapport and navigate conversations about concerns, changing goals and the transition into motherhood, so she feels safe, seen and supported.

  • Understand how your coaching fits within your client’s wider maternity care. With her permission, build relationships with the healthcare professionals involved, incorporate their recommendations and recognise when further guidance or referral may be beneficial.

Be the first to enrol.

Prenatal Coaching enrolment is planned for early 2027.

Sign up for course details, launch announcements and to be the first to hear when enrolment opens.


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You’ll also receive The EFA Edit—our weekly take on what’s happening in the industry, the latest in women’s health research, and fresh ideas to fuel your professional development.