Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, three for a city break.

It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard, miss, I finally got plans out the group chat.

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

P and O'ferries, there is another way.

Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Ask Alice. I hope you're good and having a wonderful

Friday so far. Today's question was a very sport specific one and a very pertinent question given that it's something that I am definitely learning more about and that's around strength training and pelvic floor.

So the question read, is heavy lifting slash strength training okay for pelvic

floor muscles? Now those of you that have followed me for a long time, you may remember

that I spent a while shadowing a wonderful pelvic health specialist called

Helen Keeble who has also been a guest on this podcast.

She had a clinic in Wandsworth and I went in to shadow some of her sessions as she is a pelvic floor specialist and physiotherapist.

This experience opened my eyes to what is our pelvic floor, how it functions, how it can sometimes go a little bit awry, and also how to heal it back to where it used to be.

So let's do a little bit of chat first about what pelvic floor is, or what our pelvic floor is, and then let's go into your question because I think it's a really good one.

Our pelvic floor in the most basic terms is like a little hammock that sits at the bottom of our core cylinder.

Our core cylinder is everything that kind of makes up our trunk

so you've got your abdominals that make up like the middle of the cylinder, you've got your

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