Welcome back to the Stronger by Science podcast. For today's episode we've got an excellent interview

Greg and I sat down with Molly Galbraith and Marika Hart from Girls Gone Strong.

Throughout the interview we discussed a number of female specific lifting topics so for example we talked about pelvic health we talked about lifting during pregnancy lifting after pregnancy so if you are a female lifter or if you coach female

lifters, this is a really, really informative interview. We want to thank Molly and

Marika for stopping by and spending some time with us and we also want to thank you

for listening so as always enjoy the episode. We have a number of really important topics

to discuss today but before we get into that first of all thank you

Molly Marika for joining us today. Thanks so much for having us. Thank you for having us.

Now Greg and I have a lot of things in common and one of the things we have in common is that we are both men and so we are very much open to the possibility that we might have some blind spots when it comes to female specific topics and considerations for lifting.

So to start things off, I want to begin with the topic of pelvic health.

So Marika, for female lifters or for people who coach female lifters, what do we need to know about

pelvic health?

Oh, that's a big one. Okay, so what probably we've covered a lot in some of our smaller courses and also within our biggest certifications that goes on strong is really trying to give people some of those

nuts and bolts when it comes to pelvic health and probably the first thing that we

want people to understand is to understand scope of practice so knowing what you can and can't work with, that diagnosis for

a lot of fitness professionals is outside of scope and developing some of those relationships

with health professionals locally so that you can refer to and get referrals from.

And then the next step would be to have a good screening process in place to, and I don't know is this something Eric and Greg that you guys

have been taught to ask people about some of their pelvic health concerns or do you

have a screening form not to put you on the. I'm just curious to know whether this is something, I guess within teaching programs currently that people are learning.

For client intake, we ask people just generally are there any any like health

concerns that might really affect anything related to how we would need to do our

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