For Postpartum Pelvic-Floor Recovery

MADDIE GENTILE, manualmovement.com

“i’ve never felt more body positive, powerful from within, and confident in my ability to heal postdelivery,” says chef Camilla Marcus. This is all thanks to her trainer, Maddie Gentile, whom Marcus started training with shortly before her first child was born. It’s perhaps hard to describe everything Marcus’s highly customized workouts entail: She is a licensed massage therapist, a former director of development at dance-cardio studio chain DanceBody, and a postpartum pelvic-floorrecovery expert. Marcus has stuck with her through a second pregnancy as well as a cross-country move (they now train together over Zoom for $200 per session). And Gentile has been able to work out with both Marcus and her partner simultaneously, “which is incredible,” she says, “given I’ve been pregnant most of the time, and he’s extremely athletic.”