Category: Women’s Health
Ten ways to find your pelvic floor – for your friends
So I know you know that pelvic floor exercises are a big deal. And I know you know that Pilates is a fabulous way of making sure you get regular practise in. I also know you know that pelvic floor exercises aren’t just something you do when you’re in the…
Pilates. What’s all the fuss about? Why bother?
Is it like yoga? Will I break a sweat? Will it make me thin? Will it fix my back? Will it be able to make me touch my toes? Will it give me a bottom like Pippa Middleton? What if I don’t like it? What if I fart? What’s…
Ease back to health: Getting bootylicious
So the sugar fast is holding for me, with the help of green tea, raspberries and pears. And I’m already feeling better for eating well. It reminded me that great food, good moods and exercise all go hand in hand. As soon as I made the decision to eat better,…
Zzz … could sleep deprivation be making you fat?
In a recent BBC interview, performance director for GB cycling Dave Brailsford said that perfect pillows (as well as extra round wheels) were responsible for British domination in cycling. The ‘sleep kits’, designed by leading sport sleep coach Nick Littlehales, can be transported from home, to training camps to the athlete’s…
How to train your pelvic floor muscles
If you think I’m slightly obsessive about spreading the pelvic floor message to all of womankind (ambitious … me?) you’d be right. If you’ve already done your exercises today then please tell me to give it up. Still here? I thought so. So I’ve just been asked to write a…
Finding your core without pushing through your floor
If you know you’ve got pelvic floor issues, it can be a bit daunting to start training your tummy muscles again, or indeed to start exercising at all. Good abdominal tone goes hand in hand with pelvic floor muscle tone so it’s vital to find your core again after pregnancy or…
Ready for birth? Connecting with your rose
There is, quite rightly, a lot of talk about strengthening, squeezing and lifting of your pelvic floor muscles during pregnancy and (hopefully) beyond into your grandparenting years. But what of those – arduous for many – few hours spent pushing a baby’s head out of your rose garden? As important…
Pelvic floor: From little dribbles to the big ‘O’
Saturday, 19th May marked the inaugural Core, Floor and More workshop. Our aim for the day was to get women talking about their pelvic floor muscles, to raise awareness of issues, exercises and treatment and to share information. We had nearly thirty women at our first workshop so thank you…
Why hating P.E. can help you fall in love with sport
Forget about the misery of school P.E., fall back in love with sports just for fun and fitness. A study published on Wednesday on behalf of the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation confirmed what most of us have known since puberty, that school PE puts many girls off sport, for life.…
Ten ways to find your pelvic floor – for your friends
So I know you know that pelvic floor exercises are a big deal. And I know you know that Pilates is a fabulous way of making sure you get regular practise in. I also know you know that pelvic floor exercises aren’t just something you do when you’re in the…
Pilates. What’s all the fuss about? Why bother?
Is it like yoga? Will I break a sweat? Will it make me thin? Will it fix my back? Will it be able to make me touch my toes? Will it give me a bottom like Pippa Middleton? What if I don’t like it? What if I fart? What’s…
Ease back to health: Getting bootylicious
So the sugar fast is holding for me, with the help of green tea, raspberries and pears. And I’m already feeling better for eating well. It reminded me that great food, good moods and exercise all go hand in hand. As soon as I made the decision to eat better,…
Zzz … could sleep deprivation be making you fat?
In a recent BBC interview, performance director for GB cycling Dave Brailsford said that perfect pillows (as well as extra round wheels) were responsible for British domination in cycling. The ‘sleep kits’, designed by leading sport sleep coach Nick Littlehales, can be transported from home, to training camps to the athlete’s…
How to train your pelvic floor muscles
If you think I’m slightly obsessive about spreading the pelvic floor message to all of womankind (ambitious … me?) you’d be right. If you’ve already done your exercises today then please tell me to give it up. Still here? I thought so. So I’ve just been asked to write a…
Finding your core without pushing through your floor
If you know you’ve got pelvic floor issues, it can be a bit daunting to start training your tummy muscles again, or indeed to start exercising at all. Good abdominal tone goes hand in hand with pelvic floor muscle tone so it’s vital to find your core again after pregnancy or…
Ready for birth? Connecting with your rose
There is, quite rightly, a lot of talk about strengthening, squeezing and lifting of your pelvic floor muscles during pregnancy and (hopefully) beyond into your grandparenting years. But what of those – arduous for many – few hours spent pushing a baby’s head out of your rose garden? As important…
Pelvic floor: From little dribbles to the big ‘O’
Saturday, 19th May marked the inaugural Core, Floor and More workshop. Our aim for the day was to get women talking about their pelvic floor muscles, to raise awareness of issues, exercises and treatment and to share information. We had nearly thirty women at our first workshop so thank you…
Why hating P.E. can help you fall in love with sport
Forget about the misery of school P.E., fall back in love with sports just for fun and fitness. A study published on Wednesday on behalf of the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation confirmed what most of us have known since puberty, that school PE puts many girls off sport, for life.…