Our friend Wendy Powell, a postpartum recovery and fitness expert in the UK, has created MuTu System, a 12 week program to get your body back into health after pregnancy. It offers great explanations of posture, body mechanics and nutrition. Wedny has shared with us some great exercises for getting rid of what she calls 'mummy …
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Personal Training
There are innumerable benefits to having a strong pelvic floor--from stronger urinary continence to better orgasms--and one of the ways to do that is through Kegel exercises, as we've definitely heard before. Just squeeze the same muscles you would as if you were looking to stop your flow of urine. But you can also use …
Why Do I Still Look Pregnant?!: Diastasis Recti, Part I
By Stephanie Stamas Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone is having a baby this summer? My Facebook feed is filled with pregnant belly time lapses and newborn pictures. I’m at the age where a lot of my friends are starting families and knowing that I am a pelvic floor therapist, I …
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Kegels for Men?!
While Kegel exercises have typically been prescribed for women's health, men richly benefit from them as well. Just as with women, the muscles in a man's pelvic floor are the foundations of urinary and sexual health. As author Roni Carin Rabin writes in an article in this week's New York Times, "Like all muscles, these …