Leaks, Lockdowns & Magic Wands with Amy Hill Fife, MPT (Episode 55)

Hit Play Not Pause

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As active women we know all about our muscles. We know the sets and reps to work our shoulders, glutes, and core. We’re proficient in using dumbbells, kettlebells, and squat racks. But when it comes to training our pelvic floor, we know one word: Kegels. That’s not enough. In fact, if our pelvic floor is a “Lock Down Donna” as this week’s guest would say, Kegels may be the last thing we need. Our pelvic floor muscles play a role in essential functions like continence and sex that impact the quality of our life and our athletic performance. We can train them, massage them, and even strength train them like any other muscles. This week’s guest, Amy Hill Fife, MPT, WCS, BCB-PMD, tells us how. Amy is the founder of the online educational forum Pelvic Health PT (Private Talk). She is board certified as a Women's Clinical Specialist and is a Board Certified Associate Fellow in Pelvic Muscle Dysfunction Biofeedback with the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance. You can learn more about her work and find a free guidebook on the topics covered in this show at https://education.pelvichealthpt.com/healyourpelvicfloor

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.1	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.0	Boy, do I have a fun one for you this week.
0:35.7	So buckle up and get ready to try winking your
0:39.5	anus, contracting and relaxing the pelvic floor muscles around your vagina, and so much more.
0:46.9	Because this week, we are talking pelvic floor health with pelvic health specialist Amy Hill
0:53.2	Fife. Amy's background is in exercise science. She is
0:57.7	board-certified in biofeedback for pelvic muscle dysfunction, and she is a board-certified
1:03.2	women's clinical specialist. That's all to say she really knows of which she speaks. But most
1:09.8	importantly, Amy is incredibly passionate.
1:13.6	I really wish this one was on video because Amy has all sorts of models and diagrams
1:19.4	and literally baskets filled with magic wands and vaginal weights and other tools of her trade
1:25.8	that she uses to explain exactly what is
1:28.7	happening down there when things aren't going right and how to make them better. And here's the thing,
1:35.6	man, we talk so much about so many of our muscles, right? We talk about our abs and our glutes
1:42.5	and our hamstrings. We talk endlessly about our core.
1:46.6	But the seat of so much of what is important to our health and our wellness and our performance
1:51.3	is right there in our pelvic floor, which are also muscles. And about those, our lips are zipped.
1:59.1	People don't talk about that and they should, which is why,
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