The Missing Link in Midlife Fitness: Pelvic Floor Health with the Buff Muff's Kim Vopni
From The Body Pod · 1:03:18
Show by Hailey Happens Fitness + Love By Laura
If you've ever leaked during a workout, felt pressure "down there," or been told to just do your Kegels, this episode is for you. We sit down with Kim Vopni, known as The Vagina Coach, a certified personal trainer and pelvic floor expert with over 20 years of experience helping women understand and optimize their pelvic health. Pelvic floor dysfunction affects millions of women and most don't even know they have it! This conversation covers everything you didn't know you needed to hear.Kim breaks down the symptoms women silently live with for years, the difference between stress urinary incontinence and urgency incontinence, how pelvic organ prolapse is staged, what a pessary is and how it works, and whether women with prolapse can (and should) be lifting heavy weights. She also unpacks the eye-opening connection between lower back pain and pelvic floor dysfunction, why 50% of women who've given birth have some degree of prolapse without knowing it, and why vaginal estrogen is something every woman in perimenopause and beyond should be talking to her doctor about.Kim explains why Kegels alone aren't enough, how breath and whole-body movement are key to true pelvic floor function, and why pelvic health is a lifelong practice not just a postpartum fix. She also shares how her BuffMuff app and 28-day challenge are giving women the tools to rebuild their foundation from the inside out, and why her membership community is helping women realize they are not alone in this.Whether you're in your thirties and want to get ahead of it, deep in perimenopause, or post-menopausal and ready to stop accepting symptoms as normal, this is the women's health conversation your OBGYN should have been having with you all along.Our Fit Friday Sale starts November 13th! Save up to 40% and you'll be on your way to an incredible year of training. Sale runs November 13-19. Shop our best deals →Hailey Happens Fitness Membership is my full training system in your back pocket. Join with a Yearly Plan to design a training year that fits your midlife goals and body. Start training with a 10-day free trial →
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