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How To Lift Heavier With Prolapse?

If you’re wanting to increase the intensity of your lifts so that you can go heavier, this is where we’d start.   By building a solid base of strength alongside your pelvic floor muscle training, you can not only train your pelvic floor to handle the impact… but...

How To Talk To Your Doctor About Fitness And Managing Prolapse

High impact fitness doesn't have to be off of the table when you're living with prolapse symptoms.  The good news is that you can train your pelvic floor (and body) to handle the impact of modalities like CrossFit, weightlifting and everything else that requires you...

How To Build Muscle With Prolapse

Building muscle with prolapse can feel impossible when you're not able to exercise in way this requires.   The good news is that you can work up to the heavy sweaty stuff and build  muscle using what we in the fitness industry like to call Progressive Overload.   To...

How To Use Kegels To Lift Heavy

There have been a lot of questions coming in about the whole core training thing thanks to this Fupa movement on social media. WTF is a fupa anyway?! I'm so sick of influencers using shameful marketing tactics with promises of a perfectly fit body. Fun fact...your...

How to Run With Pelvic Floor Dysfunctions

Are you a woman who loves to run but struggles with pelvic floor dysfunctions? You're not alone. In fact, research shows that up to 50% of women who exercise experience some form of pelvic floor dysfunction. Whether it's leaking urine, feeling a bulge or pressure in...

Meal Prep Time Savers

I’m going to let you in on one SIMPLE technique to reach your fitness/wellness goals this year.   It never fails.   BUT: It’s also not one of those “secrets” the slick marketers try to sell you. It doesn’t require any insider knowledge, tricks, hacks, or...

Prolapse And Getting Older…What’s A Girl To Do?

  As women, we need to be strong as we age. We have to deal with things like menopause that we have to contend with and we need to care for our bodies before we hit this stage, Yet, if you have a prolapse, you're told to avoid anything that brings on symptoms....

Prolapse Surgery: Is It The Right Choice?

I’ve been sharing a lot about surgery not always being a fix for prolapse, so today, I’m going to share a different point of view…​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ When surgery is the best option for a person living with prolapse.​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ Sure, prolapse isn’t life...

Intuitive Portion Control For Prolapse

If you had to grade yourself today – right now! – on your eating and nutrition skills, would you get an A, B, C … or …?   (haha: I’m talking about “healthy” eating here, for the record.)   Most of us think of eating/nutrition as something we should just...

How To Use Fads To Keep Your Training Exciting!

Today I have one of my favorite assignments for you … it’s to set a goal bucket list!   Not a forever bucket list, but one for the rest of this year.   Doing this will help you SKYROCKET your motivation...    Because your brain is hardwired to like new,...

The Best Morning Routine

Prolapse can be an energy suck. As you know, prolapse can take an emotional toll when you're learning how to navigate it on and off the gym floor. Believe it or not, starting your day on a positive note can be really helpful to your morning mindset.   I get it....

Getting Back On Track With Your Training

How to Get Back To Your Training With Prolapse   If you’re struggling, it’s definitely NOT too late to course-correct (even if you abandoned your goals weeks ago, like most people have). There’s a huge open secret we all know to be true about achieving goals,...

Stress & Your Lady Parts

Your pelvic floor gets a lot of blame when it comes to feeling prolapsey and there's one big thing to consider when it comes to symptom mangement thats underated.   Your pelvic floor isn't a lone wolf. It's working with your entire body and sometimes, it gets to...

You’re not getting the full story when it comes to navigating prolapse on and off the gym floor. I know it seems overwhelming with all of the rules that you somehow follow now that you have prolapse.Your poor pelvic floor, getting all of that blame when it comes to...

The Gender Bias Of Facebook Marketing

        After yet another round of submitting my identification to Facebook. Yeah, apparently they can ask for your personal ID to prove you’re who you say you are.      I’m not even overly mad. But what concerns me is the censorship on...

How To Train Your Lady Parts

The pelvic floor is always to blame when it comes to feeling prolapsey, but there is so much more to consider than just your pelvic floor. For many women, they experience symptoms during periods of str I don't really care too much for restriction. Been there, done...

How To Find Your Food Formula

Skip The Rules Of How To Eat And Discover Your Own Unique Food Formula   Following the typical food rules can be a big head ache to say the least. finding your Food Formula will no only help you break out of the toxic beliefs around what and how to eat for...

How To Train Olympic Lifts With Pelvic Organ Prolapse

How To Train Olympic Lifts With Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Olympic Lifts are one of the most dynamic lifts which can take considerable work from the pelvic floor.    And learning how to perform such a lift and your prolapse pops out to play, you know how discouraging this can be when it comes to training Hang Power...

2 Simple Tips For Fat Loss With Pelvic Organ Prolapse

2 Simple Tips For Fat Loss With Pelvic Organ Prolapse

So you want to lose some fat and you have this prolapse. And you’re asking yourself, how can I lose fat now?    Will that make my prolapse worse?    This depends on how you go about your fat loss goals.   A: you can go hard AF in the gym doing programs that...

2 Pro Tip To Manage Your Prolapse You’re Probably Not Doing

Are your prolapse symptoms driving you crazy because there seems to be no explanation as to why they’re happening? We're in the middle of a global pandemic and have been housebound for seven-week now. And the usual ways we once used to take care of ourselves are off...

Do You Have To Be A Walking Kegel For As Long As You Live?

So do you need to actively engage your badge for the rest of your life Now that you have a prolapse, well that depends on your symptoms?   You may have asked yourself this question as you think about getting back into your fitness programming or starting...

How A Mom Of 3 Went From Feeling Broken To Crushing Pull-Ups

The interesting thing about the world of IG is the connections, like real solid connections you can make with people.   And on IG, I met Kylie, a new mom struggling to come to terms with multiple prolapses.   As we got chatting back and forth, we struck a...

WTF Is Your Pelvic Floor And Why Does It Matter When Weightlifting?

WTF Is Your Pelvic Floor And Why Does It Matter When Weightlifting?

WTF is a pelvic floor and why does it matter in weightlifting?   You’ve probably seen “pelvic floor” tossed around in women’s fitness a lot over the last few years. This is a good thing.   But if you don't know what on earth a pelvic floor is, you may just...

3 Core Tips For Lower Back Pain When You Deadlift

3 Core Tips For Lower Back Pain When You Deadlift

I was having a conversation with a friend last week about lifting heavy objects. A favorite topic of mine, if you hadn't noticed.   And my friend mentioned she stopped lifting heavy objects because deadlifts started hurting her lower back.   Tear.    ...

How Amanda Went From Prolapse​ To Deadlifting 265lbs

How Amanda Went From Prolapse​ To Deadlifting 265lbs

Amanda, a young mom of three young children and avid CrossFit athlete who enjoyed pushing her body beyond its limit found herself leaking when she returned to CrossFit postpartum. And on a whim, she made an appointment to get internally assessed by a pelvic floor...

What Is Normal For You Lady Parts After Childbirth

I posted a question in my Instagram stories, asking what was something that you wanted to know or wish you had known about pelvic health after pregnancy.   The most common question was, what is normal and what's not for your lady parts after giving birth?   ...

Prolapse & Grocery Carts

Prolapse & Grocery Carts

  Do you find yourself dealing woth prolpase symptoms when you're trying to live your life? Like when you're washing dishes, or trimming your garden? I mean, the garden in your yard, not the one below. But it you're feeling symptoms while you're doing that too,...

Body Image And Fitness Expectations During Pregnancy

Body Image And Fitness Expectations During Pregnancy

  I have been running away from my body image issues for as long as I can remember.  Since I was a child, I felt fatter than the other girls in my class. In my 20’s, I was 40 pounds overweight and was incredibly embarrassed.  I went to extremes to lose excess...