Not sure if you are doing your pelvic floor exercises right? Here are 5 ways you can check you are contracting your pelvic floor muscles correctly. 1. Feel your lower tummy One of your deep abdominal muscles, transversus abdominis, has been shown to contract at the same time as your pelvic floor. To feel this…
Know you should be doing ‘Kegels’ or pelvic floor exercises but not sure how? Then this is for you! I’ll show you how to find and contract your pelvic floor muscles. You may recall from my previous blog post, there are two layers to your pelvic floor muscles: a superficial and a deep layer. The…
“How much do you know about your pelvic floor?” When I ask most clients this question, the answer is generally, “Not a lot!” I didn’t either, until I started my women’s health training and discovered just how important these muscles really are… What is the pelvic floor? If we start with the pelvis which is…