The right way to do Kegels. Everyone should be exercising their pelvic floor
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Everyone should be exercising their pelvic floor, but doing Kegels is not always the best choice. Let’s look at Kegels, talk about why you should or shouldn’t be doing them and consider how to better approach your pelvic-floor fitness.
The pelvic floor, when working optimally, is responsible for maintaining your continence, holding your internal organs in place, for supporting your spine and pelvis, and for sexual function – pretty important stuff, yet many women suffer from a dysfunctional pelvic floor that leaks, hurts and doesn’t perform as it should.
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Most women focus solely on the contraction of the pelvic floor and forget about the need to relax. They also use the wrong muscles – typically the glutes and/or the inner thighs. They squeeze and clench while holding their breath in an attempt to do a Kegel when really they are holding their breath, clenching their glutes and bearing down, thereby increasing intra-abdominal pressure – not at all what we are looking for in a pelvic-floor fitness regime!
And for women who are able to identify the correct muscles, many will find that Kegels make no difference or make their situation worse. So what’s the deal?
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