She sent me an email the day after her baby girl was born to report she is already practicing her core exercises and in her words...» can get a pretty
good pelvic floor contraction».
Not exact matches
Exercises will include drawing your
pelvic floor up into your
pelvic outlet and holding it for endurance as
well as short, quick
contractions; strengthening your lower abdominals (transversus abdominus) while drawing your
pelvic floor up toward your belly button; and also strengthening the support muscles of your deep hip rotators, your lower back and your inner thighs.
In addition, when you practice the drawing - in maneuver you should also contract your
pelvic floor muscles to get an even
better contraction.
The truth of the matter is that strengthening our
pelvic floor and changing our symptoms requires knowledge of finding and holding your neutral spine in sitting and standing, strengthening of your TA and other coordinating muscles of our abdomen and pelvis, as
well as a thorough, two - part, Kegel
contraction.
I wouldn't say that it's particularly «
good» — i.e. any
better than other activities, such as walking — for your
pelvic floor, but it's certainly not «bad» as long as you can maintain a GENTLE
pelvic floor muscle
contraction throughout the duration of your rebounding / bouncing session... and as long as it's not aggravating your condition!
Having said that, for some students it is easier to do the progressive abdominal
contraction on the exhale if they engage the
pelvic floor muscles as
well.
While it is important to have
good contraction ability of your
pelvic floor I believe there is a much
better way to keep your pelvis healthy and strong that doesn't involve Kegelling!
Normal strength of the
pelvic floor muscles is the ability of the muscles to maintain a
good contraction for 10 seconds.