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Women’s Health – Exercising Pelvic Floor Muscles

Why Exercising Pelvic Floor Muscles Goes Way Beyond Toning and Strengthening Of Muscles?

 

Do you imagine high bulging biceps, washboard abs and tree like shaped legs? Well, I didn’t think so either…okay, so there’s a far more important group of muscles in regards to women’s health…

Yes! Your pelvic floor muscles are way too often overlooked. This crucial group of muscles, (stretches from public bone to base of spine) supports vital organs bladder and bowel movements (to controlling opening & closing of anus and urethra).

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Kegel Exercises for Strengthening Pelvic Floor

Discover Specific Enjoyable Abdominal Exercises For The Benefit Of Enhancing Sexual Pleasures While Increasing Your Healthy Core Muscles…

The pelvic floor also helps control the uterus and vagina in women. Incontinence, uterine prolapse in women, and erectile dysfunction in men can all be caused by feeble pelvic floor muscles. Try the following exercises to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles.

Kegels are popular exercises reduce the likelihood of incontinence by strengthening pelvic floor muscles. Kegels can be done throughout the day whenever you feel inclined. To complete this exercise, simply contract your muscles as if you are attempting to halt the flow of urine.

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Kegel Exercises For Strengthening Pelvic Floor

For the best results, focus on tightening your muscles for five seconds, then rest for five seconds. Slowly increase the time you are constricting your muscles until you can maintain pressure for 10 seconds at a time. Perform five set of five reps during the day. Experience elevator Kegels as your workout will further tone your pelvic floor.

Tighten your muscles, then constrict even more for two counts: imagine drawing your muscles deeper into your body like an elevator ascending multiple levels, then relax. Your goal is to complete five sets of 10 each day.

The pelvic floor can also be strengthened with a variety of abdominal exercises. If executed properly, abdominal exercises can reach deep in the core, stimulating the entire abdominal region along with pelvic floor. Pulling your belly button back towards your spine while abdominal training helps to engage deep core muscles.

The single leg plank is an excellent exercise to strengthen your pelvic floor. Recline on your back, bend your knees, and place your feet solidly on the floor. Extend one leg, maintaining contact between your knees. Slowly raise you hips off the ground, engaging your abdominals, until your torso is in a straight line with your thighs.

Now, slowly relax, moving down and repeating with your other leg straightened. This is one full rep. Your goal is to complete two sets of 12-15 reps, three times a week (or progressing to this level).

Pilates is designed to focus on toning the muscles of your core. Many Pilates activities entail allowing the arms and legs to move about as the torso remains steady. Such movements require engagement of core muscles, including pelvic floor muscles.

To receive optimal pelvic floor strengthening benefits of Pilates, engage in Pilates at least three times a week. The double straight leg is an easy Pilates exercise you can perform at home. Lie on your back, place your hands under your head, and raise your legs straight up to form a 90 degree angle with your torso.

Lower the legs as a single unit to a 45 degree angle, then slowly draw them back upward to the 90 degree angle to complete one rep, perform 10 reps to complete your set. Women’s Health – Exercising Pelvic Floor Muscles

Thigh Toning Exercises?

Let’s face it…as a woman you’re sensitive to your body (the way you look).

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Do you want to get rid of a “pear-shaped” body?

Do you carry around extra pounds that bulges over your hips with “Jodhpur thighs”?

Well… not exactly exciting or appealing is it?

Unfortunately for so many women this is exactly where fat is more than likely to build up and accumulate.

The result is often with the “Orange-Peel” effect of cellulite.

This problem needs to solved on two fronts, the first being the foods and diet.

Second being exercises that tone muscles, lengthen and strengthen (as apposed to bulking-up).

You simply do gentle leg stretches, you feel your muscles gently being pulled out to its full extent, all the way from the hip socket to the pointed toes.

Although spot reduction isn’t really achievable, combining specific thigh toning exercises with a healthy diet can help you lose stubborn body fat.

YES, from both the inner and outer thighs.

A well planned and easy to follow fitness program composed of these thigh trimmers can help you carve out elongated thigh.

Read on…if you’re interested?

Weight Loss and Exercise!

Fitness Exercise and Strength Training For Women’s Health…

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When you are losing weight you think about how many calories you are taking in each day.

Well, what about getting the right weight loss exercise for toning your muscles?

Many women forget about their muscles when it is a major consideration.

Here’s why…did you know strength training exercise  means more lean muscle?

Yes! You actually get to burn more calories in any given day…

When you get your weight off you want to reveal muscle tone and you can easily do it with strength training exercise.

You may not have thought about strength training exercise because you are a woman.

Many women don’t give it a second thought because they think a strength training exercise will give them a manly torso and hulking arms.

You don’t have to worry about this, and this is no reason to avoid the weights. You’ll not bulk up like a man unless you take supplements to aid in this process.

The most that will happen is you will lose weight faster, have a more feminine body tone and you will look amazing at the end of your weight loss journey.

Look better, feel better and enjoy more femininity…that doesn’t sound so bad now does it?

You can find out which strength training exercise is better for you by visiting your local gym. Most gyms have personal trainers to help out their clients, and they can show you any number of simple steps that helps you get results.

You may need to add simple weight routines to your exercise program to get the results you are looking for.

You don’t have to lay down on a weight bench to get the benefits of exercise which is all part of a good strength training exercise program.

It is much simpler than you think.

You may also find a good strength training exercise by looking online, hint, hint. Just remember what when you work with any sort of weight you want to make sure you have proper form and breathing.

They are just as important than the actual strength training exercise. If you don’t not work with weights properly you can hurt yourself.

It is easy to learn proper form and breathing, however, so don’t stop yourself from looking into this because you fear it will be too complicated.

If you already do aerobics you already have the breathing part down anyway.

You only need to do this type of exercise for about twenty minutes two to three times a week to get the results you are looking for…

What’s next?

“Amazing Secrets of Natural and Lasting Weight Loss!

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