Description
An easy-to-follow pelvic floor exercise program, designed and led by a US women's health physiotherapist, the Hab It Pelvic Floor DVD runs for 1 hour and 42 mins. With both an exercise demonstration, and a real-time, follow-along component, the DVD is a wonderfully useful resource for women who want to exercise at home following clear workouts in real-time. The commentary and instructions are clear, straightforward and encouraging.
HabIt Pelvic Floor DVD is a US producttion. Health professionals often have different views about the best ways of treating their clients, and this can be especially true in different countries. Some exercises on the DVD may therefore differ from current Australian recommendations including:
- Transverse Abdominis indraw exercises and plank exercises would often not be recommended by Australian practitioners in the early stages of a pelvic floor strengthening program, as they are understood to increase intra-abdominal pressure and potentially create extra pressure on a weak pelvic floor.
- Wide leg Samurai squats are generally not recommended in Australia for women with a compromised pelvic floor.
- Tightening adductor (inner thigh) muscles during a pelvic floor contraction is generally not recommended in Australia, and adductor exercises with a band and ball are not understood to strengthen the pelvic floor.
- Current Australian recommendations for pelvic floor exercise repetitions are 3x8-12 reps each day.
With these provisos, the HabIt Pelvic Floor DVD is a wonderfully useful resource for women who want to exercise at home following clear workouts in real-time.
Contents
Intro 3:41 mins
Anatomy overview and Kegel instruction 6:58
Postural positioning 6:10
Workout 1 21:43
Workout 2 28:43
Workout 3 22:18
Workout 4 (advanced) 12:21
Time-efficient versions of each workout
Workouts 1-4 demonstrate the movements and pelvic floor exercises in clear explanatory detail.
The time-efficient versions of each workout are real-time sequences of the same exercises that are demonstrated in Workouts 1-4. These sequences are perfect for following at home, once the movements have been mastered.
