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Articles from Natalie’s blog (est. 2012) covering health from multiple perspectives, including:
holistic wellbeing (including mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellness), biohacking, natural living, and life with a chronic condition (including personal experiences with cystic fibrosis and diabetes).
The Need-To-Know on Your Pelvic Floor + How Elvie Helps You To Do Your Kegels
Ladies, do you do pelvic floor exercises?
Honestly?
I’m sure, like me, you’re aware of how important they are. Yet, also like me, when it comes to training these muscles, you’ll probably remember that they exist every fortnight or so, and exercise them by squeezing ‘down there’ how ever many times you deem useful (10, 15, 20 times?) before getting distracted by something else.
Needless to say, there are lots of things wrong with training your pelvic floor muscles in this way:
* You don’t really know if you are squeezing the muscles correctly
* You aren’t sure if you are squeezing for long enough, hard enough, or a many times as you should
* You don’t have any way to measure your progress
* It’s boring as hell, making it very easy to become distracted
Thankfully, some very clever ladies out there have designed a sleek little gadget and app called Elvie to overcome all of these problems.
But first, here's why doing kegels is important in the first place...