MEET THE NEW KAYLA
Exactly six weeks after giving birth to her daughter Arna via C-section, Kayla Itsines excitedly prepared for her fitness comeback. She planned a low-key return to working out – a power walk on the treadmill. “I am never going to forget it,” she says. “I wanted to do a proper walk, at pace, and see how I felt in terms of fitness. Well, I lasted 13-and-a-bit minutes. I stopped and got off and I was like, nope, not ready … even just one leg after the other felt really weird.”
She laughs about it now, but it rattled the usually hyper-fit, energetic personal trainer. After years of saying ‘hell, yes!’, her body simply said ‘yeah, nah’. And it wasn’t the first time Kayla’s athletic body had surprised her since falling pregnant with Arna, who’s now an adorably chubby-cheeked seven-month-old. Pregnancy
