Back to Dr. Kegel. Now he had all these women who were noticing weakness and invented the Kegelizer, or something like that. It was equivalent to the Kegel-exercisers you see now. Just insert and squeeze. The squeeze improved the lost mental connection between a damaged PF and one that was firing correctly. Firing correctly meant that when the PF was done contracting, the muscles could restore to their optimal length. This part of Dr. Kegel’s research protocol has been left out and the only part that has been passed on is the contracting part.
Science Note: The muscle tissue in your PF is the same as the muscle tissue in your biceps. When you’re done realllly working your biceps, you’d like your arm to go back to its original length, right? What if, when you were done doing your curls, your elbows stayed as bent as they were when your muscles were the TIGHTEST? If you equate strong with tight, then you’d have “strong,” contracted arms with bent elbows all the time. Tight muscles. Unusable arms.
That’s not what TONE is. Tone is having the MOST strength and the MOST length.
Doing Kegels all the time will get you a TIGHT, unusable pelvic floor.
Katy Bowman commenting on Why You Should Stop Doing Kegels
Read a really interesting interview involving Katy Bowman and MamaSweat, which was reproduced over at Journey to Crunchville.
The theory is that it may be better to work on your squatting rather than regular Kegel-style pelvic exercises during pregnancy because just tightening those muscles will not faciliate the opening of your cervix when the time comes to let the baby out.
An excellent and informative discussion regarding pelvic exercises in pregnancy.
Originally posted 2010-08-18 19:27:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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