Abby Kurtz Women’s Personal Trainer
Abby’s stats:
- Education: B.S in Kinesiology – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Division 1 two sport athlete in Cross-Country and Track & Field
- Certifications: ACE certified Personal Trainer, PROnatal pre/postnatal Performance Training Specialist
- Specialties: Women’s Fitness, Prenatal and Postnatal, diastasis recti rehab, pelvic floor health, runners, athletes, Cancer Survivors
Abby Kurtz is the owner and lead personal trainer of Pea in The Pod Fitness, a mobile, women’s-only, personal training business, located in Indianapolis. She has been in the fitness industry since 2003. She has a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she competed as a division I athlete in Cross-Country and Track & Field. She is a nationally certified personal trainer with an emphasis in women’s fitness, prenatal and postnatal fitness and diastasis recti rehabilitation (a common condition of abdominal separation that occurs during pregnancy). She is also a Prenatal and Postnatal Performance Training Specialist with PROnatal.
Prior to Pea in the Pod Fitness Indianapolis, Abby owned two other successful personal training businesses, House Call Fitness in downtown Chicago and Pea in the Pod Fitness in Boulder, CO.
She has also worked in a variety of settings including gyms, hospitals, and physical therapy offices. All of these experiences have led her to a greater knowledge of the body and how it adapts under exercise stimulus.
Abby discovered her passion for training prenatal and postpartum women in 2006. As a prior competitive athlete she particularly enjoys athletic women because she understands their mindset, their inherit drive and competitive nature. It is an exciting group of people to work with and it is extremely fulfilling to see clients make it through pregnancy while sustaining high levels of fitness and then returning to competitive levels postpartum. Abby’s client’s will go into delivery feeling confident and strong for the marathon of labor.
Additionally, Abby is fired-up about educating women on how to properly rehabilitate and recover their postpartum bodies while at the same time working to return to their athletic endevors. Pregnancy places tremendous stresses on the musculoskeletal system and if this is not properly cared for in the postpartum period it can result in chronic dysfunction of the pelvic floor and abdominals for many years. Abby is aware that there is a lot of misinformation available to postpartum women, which can leave them feeling ashamed, helpless, and hopeless inside of their own bodies. However, when women are armed with the correct program and learn how to take care of their bodies during this time, rather than punish them, they will absolutely recover the strong athletic bodies that they have always known.
Abby finds it rewarding to be a small part of the whole process of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum and takes great pride in empowering women for the most taxing sport of all, the sport of parenthood.
Aside from enjoying what she does and working with countless clients over the years, Abby has stayed up to date on the latest information by taking many hours of continuing education courses on prenatal and postpartum exercise and by following the guidelines given by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
