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Okay so the pelvic floor is something to protect. I just did some kegels after like a year of last doing some. I used to hate doing it because I was told by a physical therapist to do it as a workout.
Now I'm doing it for fun because I don't think of it as a workout. I think of it as a nice stretch(with no insertion get your mind out the gutter, i really mean just plain kegels) of the muscles. The kind of stretching you do with your back and sides and legs and arms. It's cathartic stretching. I greatly encourage it.
My pelvic floor is a mess and I really should be doing exercises for it. Do you have any suggestions on how to start?
I'm just starting too by prioritizing fun over work. There's zero priority of work actually, because it ruins the fun for me. The second I do it mostly as work, I usually quit doing it.
As I said I'm doing it as a cathartic stretch every now and then. This may stay the same, it could develop into me doing it with more frequency, or maybe I'll stop for a long while again. It's just to familiarize with the stretch for fun. Having no quota of kegels, and no set frequency of kegels, is helping me. I feel this is a healthy step to pelvic floor health.
I can be sedentary. I rarely enjoy being present and having a body, and this reminds me of how much we can enjoy having one.
That's good advice as well as a good plan. Thank you, and I hope it continues to stay fun for you
You've done yoga before, I think? You can try child's pose, happy baby, sphinx pose, and the yogi squat to start. I also had to do PT that included these exercises after my partial torsion and impacted disc. If you can remember, doing kegels when you brush your teeth can help you get in the habit of doing them twice a day haha
Some yoga, but I can look up the poses I don't know. Thank you love, I appreciate you!
I second this, it's incredibly important to take care of if you can