Can our pelvic floor muscles be too tight? Absolutely! Keep reading to learn some exercise tips to help change your tight pelvic floor muscles (PFM’s) into more flexible and well working pelvic floor muscles! What is a tight pelvic floor? A ‘tight’ pelvic floor refers to muscles inside our pelvic floors (vagina/rectum for women and …
With more than 40,000 people running in the Vancouver Sun Run in 2016, upwards of 30,000 people in the Boston Marathon, weekend warriors, recreational runners and adventure racers, there is a huge number of people who love to run. And a lot of these runners experience stress incontinence issues, or leaking when running, and don’t think there …
Do I have a Diastasis? You’ve had your baby and over the next year or two your body is slowly but surely returning to where it was before. You are back into your regular exercise regime but even though you are working out hard, there is that one area around your belly that doesn’t look …
What is it? A Diastasis Recti Abdominus looks like a “split down the middle of the abdomen”. You will be able to sink your fingers into this widened gap and when doing a curl up, part of your abdomen may ‘dome’ or push outwards. Your rectus abdominus muscle (the 6 pack muscle people always refer …