Pregnancy, Postpartum & Menopause Fitness Specialist
Logan, Utah
A certified personal trainer on building sustainable strength without ignoring leakage, pressure, recovery, or the changing needs of a woman's body.
In this conversation
Alicia Wood is a certified personal trainer with specialties in pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause fitness. At Aylara Pelvic Health, she helps women build strength in a way that supports long-term health, confidence, and trust in their bodies rather than chasing punishing routines or short-lived results.
Her approach is shaped by her own experience with leakage and urgency during exercise. Alicia focuses on sustainable strength training, symptom awareness, breathing, mobility, and programming that can adjust to pregnancy, postpartum recovery, the menstrual cycle, and menopause. She works alongside pelvic floor physical therapy when a client needs clinical assessment or rehabilitation before progressing into fitness-focused training.
On Healing at Your Core, Alicia joins Bree to explain what pelvic floor-friendly strength training can look like in real life. Their conversation covers common workout habits, a beginner-friendly training structure, returning to exercise postpartum, and how trainers and pelvic floor therapists can work together.
EP. 02 · Jul 23, 2026
Alicia Wood shares pelvic floor-friendly strength training tips, postpartum return-to-exercise guidance, and why common workout symptoms aren't normal.
Watch, listen, and read the episodeA few grounded takeaways from Alicia’s conversation with Bree.
Alicia recommends choosing a strength routine that can continue over time. For many people, two or three focused sessions each week can be more useful than an aggressive plan that creates exhaustion or is quickly abandoned.
Leakage, heaviness, bulging, or pain should not be hidden with clothing changes or accepted as the price of working out. Tracking those signals helps a trainer or pelvic floor provider decide what support may be appropriate.
The conversation begins with breathing, short walks, and honest symptom monitoring rather than a race back to an old routine. Individual history matters, so the right starting point will not look the same for every person.
A trainer can build strength and capacity, while a pelvic floor therapist can assess pain, pressure management, prolapse, or muscle function. Clear handoffs between the two create a more informed path forward.
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