Comparing Exercises

Submitted by Paula on May 5, 2004 - 2:53pm
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Hello Christine,

I have received your book only yesterday and jumped to Part 2 - exercises.
I am 44 and was diagnose with uterine/cystocele prolapses last year. When I was searching the net for any exercises, I come across an exercise that was described as rehabilitative for prolapses. This floor exercise, "Putting the Organs in Place / Half Frog Sequence", is part of the workout put together by Theresa Tapp. I called Theresa' office, talked to her and ordered the tapes but have been doing exercises only occasionally - no excuses, just procrastination.
But here is what is interesting, most of the standing exercises are done in so-called KLT( knees to the little toe) position. This is how this position is described on the discussion board related to T-Tapp copyrighted move PBS (Primary Back Stretch): "So now you are standing hip bone width apart, feet straight ahead, bend your knees, tuck your bottom and press knees out to little toes. With hands at sides and palms forward roll shoulders back and down directly over your hips..."
It looks like your posture and exercises could be supplemented by T-Tapp workout except KLT position is done with Pelvic Tilt so I am not sure. The web site for T-Tapp is t-tapp.com if you want to check it out.

Thanks,

Paula

Christine

May 6, 2004 - 7:32am

Cool, Paula...I'll check it out!

Paula

May 6, 2004 - 1:30pm

That would be great, Christine. You can find full description with pictures of the "Putting the Organs in Place" exercise on http://www.t-tapp.com/try/ under 'The T-Tapp Secret for a Flat Stomach' title.

I've search the t-tapp forum for 'prolapse', found quite a few and here is one of them:
http://www.t-tapp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=23119&FORUM_ID=1&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=Hysterometry+and+T%2Dtapp&Forum_Title=General+Discussion+Share+%26+Care

Thanks and good luck tonight,

Christine

May 7, 2004 - 6:22am

Hi Paula,

Hope you were able to hear the teleconference last night. It's my belief that we need to steer completely away from the "flat stomach" paradigm, as a rounded lower abdomen is part of our natural anatomy and energy pathway system.

Some of their reasoning is a bit obscure, such as "kinks in the back hose" (spine) causing all these disorders. Our spine certainly is the biggest player, but I don't think they understand why.

Someone prove me wrong, but I think Pilates-type sculpting is not what we need. We need to remember our core by working our abs and buttocks at the same time. For this, frog-legs (as they mention in the link you sent) on our stomach would be very good. Walking and running uphill are even better.

KB, where are you?? I'd love to get your feedback here.

Christine

COACH2211

May 7, 2004 - 11:17am

Hi Christine & friends, I'm so happy to get back on w/ all of you. It's been about 2 wk for me; things got a bit OOC & I ended up not taking care of me as much. Wrote the Newsletter for my Academy where I work & started reg. for the summer pool program s0 ... all else suffers. Anyway, I missed the telecon (boohoo twice!). Worked on the aquatic x's the other night & hope to get them in order to help others soon. hint: make sure you can float on your back-almost everything goes from there. Pool is ideal, but hottub, bathtub if you must,can work. Water walking is great-bounce from foot to foot in chest high water. Hold the posture, but let yourself relax. Then try running, kicking your legs back like a 'donkey kick.'Throw that belly button out in front. whee-you're off to a start! later all, KB

Christine

May 8, 2004 - 4:45am

Dear KB,

Glad to hear all is well, if hectic. The "taking care of me" is primo and one I, too, must continually remind myself. Don't rush on the exercises, we'll all be here when they're ready.

;-)
Christine

Paula

June 2, 2004 - 11:52am

Hi Christine,

I added exercises you recommend to my daily T-Tapp Basic+ workout. It works well together, kind of complimentary to each other. There are definite similarities, even some terms are similar: Plie, Head Rolls, Point/Flex.

I am not affiliated with T-Tapp in any way. I just really like it and feel it might be perfect supplementary exercise routine to posture. Here is the posture you suppose to be in when doing most of the exercises: "Stand hip bone width apart, feet straight ahead, bend your knees, roll knees out (from the hips) to little toes, tuck your bottom, tighten butt and roll shoulders back and down directly over the hips."

The major difference is 'tuck your bottom' part, but you do it only after pressing knees out to the little toes. I've checked in manually myself and feel uterus moving up after 'knees to little toe' and tuck. Also, they recommend to try to walk with 'No Big Toe' (roll out from the hips and lift the whole inside of the foot so there is no weight on the big toe) and I noticed that it forces me into good posture.

They have a retreat in Santa Fe in July http://www.t-tapp.com/events/santafe073004.asp
I don't know where in New Mexico you are, but may be you can drop by. Again, I am not affiliated with T-Tapp and not going to be at the retreat.

Christine

June 7, 2004 - 6:36pm

Hi Paula,

I responded to you last week, but the post got lost in the shuffle. I'll take a look at the site when I have a minute. I can't fathom teaching people to walk on the outer edges of their feet. This makes no sense to me and could only be stressful to the knees and ankles.

As for the language, these words are basic ballet terminology...a plie is a plie!

You do mention, however, rolling the "shoulders down and back." This is not part of my method, but rather the shoulders need to be down and the upper back broad. This makes a big difference...using my posture, stand with your shoulders back and you will see that your lower back will sway to a much greater extent. Now, while keeping your shoulders down, make your upper back as broad as you can. This removes the swayback, and therefore the pressure, on your lower spine.

Thanks for the info, Paula, sorry this took so long to reach you!

Christine