Is Pilates Good for the Pelvic Floor?
With its emphasis on core strength and mobility, Pilates is one of the best types of exercise for pelvic floor issues.
Your pelvic floor and core muscles can't function properly if they're too weak or too tight. Pilates exercises focus on both strengthening and lengthening the muscles that support your pelvis and spine.
But mainstream Pilates classes—and their ab-intensive moves like the Teaser—can put too much stress on postpartum muscles that are still healing, worsening issues like diastasis recti and bladder leaks.
The Vagercise course for pelvic floor exercise and education includes a series of Pilates classes designed with postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction in mind.
Taught by a registered nurse and postpartum Pilates specialist, the classes focus on safe and effective abdominal exercises, breathwork, and mobility in the core, hips and low back.
Vagercise Pilates is designed to complement the course's foundational fitness classes, including classes in Pelvic Floor Strength, Core Strength, Pelvic Floor Relaxation and more.