What are the best pelvic floor exercises to keep your muscles strong and healthy(especially after a baby!)…NOT KEGELS?!🤷♀️⬇️
Answer: Functional exercises like a single leg step down (w/ or w/o weight) to engage your TA muscle, pelvic floor muscles, and posterior chain for stronger glutes and pelvic floor!✅✅✅
Immediately postpartum you may only be able to start with gentle breathing and foundational pelvic floor and core exercises but eventually you want to progress to functional exercise like squatting, deadlifts, step ups/downs, etc✅
One of the best ways to support the pelvic floor is by strengthening the glutes, hip abductors, and deep core muscles which help to stabilize the pelvic floor for pooping, peeing, walking, jumping, squatting, running, coughing, sex, etc.✅✅✅
This exercise focuses on sustained core and pelvic floor stabilization/activation (specifically transversus abdominus for the core) but especially glute max activation and strengthening (bye bye mommy butt and pelvic floor issues!)🙌
It’s WAY BETTER than KEGELS! And it’s how to treat common issues like diastasis, prolapse, hernia, constipation, etc🔥🔥
I hear too many moms and doctors say, “Don’t do this or that because you have prolapse or diastasis” without actually referring them to PELVIC FLOOR PT for treatment❌
The truth is that anyone, at anytime can get injured during ANY exercise so I get why you are scared to workout when you receive a scary diagnosis with no sense of direction!⬇️
That’s why I created The Belly Whisperer Method and my Pregnancy Prep & Postpartum recovery online programs so MAMAS could start healing from home and recovery safely especially for those that don’t have access to pelvic floor PT near them✅
Just because you have a diagnosis, doesn’t mean you will always be injured or having symptoms!❌
You can HEAL and overcome issues and even eliminate a diagnosis (I see this all the time!)✅
And trust me, not matter what age you are, WE ALL NEED exercises like step downs🙌
LINK in BIO to SIGN UP to my online programs during SALE! The Pregnancy Prep & Postpartum Recovery Online Program‼️
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-The Belly Whisperer
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