Cannot do jumping jacks without “Poise” liners.
 

Will this ever get better? Stay the same? Get worse as I age? I can run without peeing. I haven’t had a baby in years. It was the first baby that did me in. Of course I do pelvic floor exercises, and even try to be aware and lift my pelvic floor even when I’m not exercising. Hubby says pf is as strong as can be. Has anyone ever beaten this? What do I need to know?

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When I was a yoga teacher, I had a student with the same problem (well, hers was much worse). I worked with her on activating mula bandha (root lock) and she did get some help from that. Do you take yoga classes? Could you have someone help you with it? I started with simple exercises like lifting the toes while standing to activate the pelvic floor (different from Kegel exercises). If you become more aware of the muscles, you can work them more effectively.

At my yoga training program, the core instructor could tell whether or not you had engaged mula bandha just by looking at how your trousers hung!

Squats also help; a specialist talking about it on TV caught my ear a few years ago and now if you google squats and pelvic floor muscles a lot of links come up.

thanks,
 

I will look up mula bandha (root lock) again and google squats. I tried Pilates, went to an excellent class when I lived in a city briefly, but overall it feels like a waste of time, I have never found a pilates workout dvd that clicks with me: feels like I got a good workout, wasn't bored out of my mind with it.

I am a low-advanced exerciser, mostly because I don't do high impact for more than a few intervals or just a few plyos in a workout, and I don't lift heavy weights anymore. Regarding weights, I had got to the point where I needed a spotter, which doesn't happen if you work out at home! Plus I had nowhere to store the barbells. So I let it go, and do a lot more floor work and dance exercises now. I have always done yoga, pretty regularly (10 days a month), for 10 years now. I am naturally flexible anyway, so that's why I like it. I'm not as strong as I used to be (how could I be compared to the weight-lifter that I was!), but I am at my ideal weight and I have good muscle tone, and feel happier with my workouts, they never make me as sore as strength training did.

After my first baby, my bladder control was non-existent and I didn't go shopping for what felt like months while I worked on it. I had to carry a change of clothes in the car. I worked on it, took a very long time, it got better, but not perfect! Almost perfect. I was just wondering, has anyone been there, got better control, stalled at almost perfect, and somehow found the trick or the thing that needed to happen to get back to perfect control? Or are they many, many women out there like me who've done the best they can with it, and have to give themselves a 9/10 for results?

Something that has really helped me to strenghthen my pelvic floor is rebounding. It is difficult at first because you may have accidents but it has been helpful to me, I can now run on a treadmill/do high impact stuff with little to no problem. Good luck-I know this is depressing!

I second rebounding!

i third it !!!

Rebounding
 

Ok, so this is something I don't know anything about! Do you recommend a dvd? a program?

thanks!!