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Christine
March 8, 2011 - 11:58am
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Hi and welcome No-drip Faucet,
Use your best judgment. Only you can determine whether such exercise is placing undue pressure on your perineum and lumbar spine.
I, personally, find such exercise not only exhausting to my spine and pelvis, but irritating to my nervous system. However, you may feel you benefit in some way from them.
Wishing you well,
Christine
kiki
March 8, 2011 - 2:15pm
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sit ups etc
I know that if i engage my stomach muscles in a non WW way I feel the bulge. I don't do those excercises, but occasionally playing with kids end up in an akward position, engage stomach muscles unconsciously and eek--i can feel it bulge. so if you try go slow and listen to your body.
have you tried nauli and firebreathing?
clavicula
March 9, 2011 - 2:00am
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I am not sure
...about core excercises, but in yoga there is a pose called Navasana or boat pose. It doesn't feel good unless I do a Nauli first and then I do the asana while holding Nauli. Feels awesome and strenghtens a lot. Good for my cystocele.
I think whatever feels good for you can do good for your body. I'd definitely avoid downward pressure in the pelvis. Breathing properly is also important to avoid bearing down/holding the breath.
Does it make sense at all? :)
Liv
Mumxtwo
March 9, 2011 - 10:38pm
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Hi, the first time I ever
Hi, the first time I ever noticed symptoms of mild pop was after doing a 'core strengthening exercise DVD' three times in one week. In the DVD there was a lot of crunches etc and it was one afternoon after doing the DVD I was like 'what is that' referring to a bulge down there. Since then I have stopped the DVDs and implemented the ww posture while walking etc and I have not really noticed it since. So be careful and pay attention to how your body feels after any exercises. Good luck.
louiseds
March 19, 2011 - 12:33am
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Situps
I think Mumxtwo is right. You will only find out by trying it.
However you can get the same benefits by turning your body through 90 degrees and lifting the bottom half of your body instead. Use a Captain's(?) chair at the gym, or by rigging up a high bar or rope grips close to the top of a wall, and hang from your arms and do leg raises instead, little ones first with bent knees, even one leg at a time, working up to straight leg if you want to.
Another way is with the leg lifts in the workout, back, front and side.
This will strengthen not only your rectus abdominus, but also your obliques, transverse abdominus and all the little muscles that stabilise your pelvis. The back leg lifts will strengthen your back muscles as well.
The reason why it is better to do these vertical exercises is because the body is designed to be exerted in an upright position and resist gravity acting parallel to the body, not at right angles to the body. This is functional, not aesthetic, strength training.
You can't have strong abs unless you are prepared to strengthen your back muscles and your pelvic floor as well. The whole abdomen and pelvic region is like a big balloon. You cannot have one part of the balloon stronger than the other parts or something will blow out. This means that you need posture that will allow all the abdominals and the pelvic floor to be equally taut.
In my opinion the only way you can do this is with Wholewoman posture, using the pubic bones as the bottom of the balloon, the abs as the front and sides, and the pelvic floor as the back.
Comments please.
Louise