105. Rebuilding Your Core Strength: Using Breathwork to Re-Engage Your Pelvic Floor with Joy Black

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105. Rebuilding Your Core Strength: Using Breathwork to Re-Engage Your Pelvic Floor with Joy Black

Lynzy

Mar 15, 2023

I’ve had four children, and my journey back into exercise during the postpartum period had looked different each time. This can depend on how what kind of exercise you did prior to pregnancy, what you were doing during pregnancy, and how you’re feeling after giving birth. Pelvic floor exercises can be a great way to ease yourself back into exercise, and Joy Black is telling us how in today’s episode.

Joy Black is an avid rock climber, kettlebell enthusiast, and trail runner. After more than 10 years in the fitness industry, Joy combined her love of strength training and climbing with extensive knowledge of training during pregnancy and postpartum to empower rock climbers during their journeys through pregnancy and post. If there was ever anyone that could casually find a way to use the words climbing pelvic floor and breath mechanics in the same sentence, it's Joy.

Inside the episode, we talk about easing back into physical activity during the postpartum period. We focus on breathwork and re-engaging the pelvic floor, how to properly perform keels, preventing rib flare, and much more.

In this episode we discuss:

Examples of light postpartum exercises
How to engage your kegel and the definition of weak vs tight
What rib flair is and how to fix it when it's painful
What breath work is and examples of how to do it
Ways to strengthen our pelvic floor

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The Motherhood Meets Medicine Podcast is a space that brings all women together. It's for those who hope to be a mom one day, those who are already mothers, and mothers of mothers. This podcast will give you candid, informal interviews on motherhood topics that you can listen to while you're driving to work, folding laundry or whatever else your busy day may bring. Each week, Your host, Lynzy Coughlin, will be focusing on topics ranging from postpartum issues to feeding babies to managing toddler tantrums. She's bringing in experts with formal training to cover everything motherhood! So grab your coffee and join us for a weekly chat on your time. All are welcome! Lynzy is a Physician Assistant in the Emergency Department where she has practiced medicine for the last 12 years. You can connect with Lynzy on her Motherhood Life & Style Instagram account, @lynzyandco. This is where you'll have the chance to submit questions for guest experts.

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