If you take the subway or use public transit, here is a great dynamic kegel workout you can do! Invite your pelvic floor to join you for the ride and enjoy an imperfect opportunity to engage your core. You can also do this at home using a balance ball or BOSU.
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TRANSCRIPT
So I was on the subway lately. I was in Toronto and I was on the subway and I was hanging on. It was quite a few people in there, wasn’t a lot of seats. And I was…checking in with my pelvic floor.
So I’m going to demonstrate a little bit about what it was like.
I’ve got my BOSU behind me and it was the closest thing that I could find to mimic kind of what I was going through.
So…I’m going to come up onto the BOSU and…
position my feet about pelvis width apart, which is how I was standing in the subway.
And first thing I want you to do is just kind of check in.
Move around a little or allow the BOSU to move you around.
And I recommend hanging on to something.
Kind of mimicking again what you would be doing in the subway.
And I want you to just check in with your pelvic floor
and I want you to see if you can feel when it engages.
So…do you notice that in certain positions maybe if there’s more sudden movements that you feel it kind of kick in? But just pay attention to what your pelvic floor does when there’s movement around.
And then what I was doing was, I was adding on my kegel or my core breath while the train was moving.
So…I was asking my pelvic floor or my core to respond to a less than perfect time.
So… usually when we’re doing our kegels or our core breathing,
I have you get into perfect alignment
and you coordinate with your breath
and you get your pelvic floor cue.
But in the real world we don’t always have time to stop and take a breath in then exhale and use our best core cue. When we can do things deliberately, that’s a good way to keep it in our awareness.
But in real life things happen. We’re on the subway, there’s a sudden stop and you kind of get thrown around and you want your pelvic floor to be there working with you.
So I was doing my core breath,
so I was activating my pelvic floor
and holding it for usually about five seconds or so,
and allowing it to hold me while I went through
the various movements that happen on a subway.
(inhaling) Then I’d inhale and I’d let it go.
And then I would just feel what was happening naturally.
Then I’d add another voluntary contraction and move around again.
And it’s a nice dynamic way to train your pelvic floor, again, in a less than perfect position because at the end of the day, we don’t always have the time to do that.
So, make sure your pelvic floor has opportunities to be challenged in a variety of planes of movement and a variety of movement in real life situations. I suggest standing on the subway anyway just because we sit so much all day anyway, so why don’t we take an opportunity to stand?
So if you don’t already have a BOSU or a balance ball, it’s a great way to get some instability, to find an unstable position and allow and ask our body to respond to that.
So this is… I can feel this in my legs.
I can feel it in my pelvic floor up into my core.
It’s a fantastic core workout.
So…subway kegels or subway core training, I think it’s maybe, it’s the latest, the newest exercise craze that’s going to take over the world, so (laughing)… Anyway, that’s it for today. So, if you can today, incorporate some instability to your base of support and ask your pelvic floor to come along for the ride.
Alright, see you next time.
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