<div class="block">Summer might be over, but we&#39;re getting ahead of the game with some body sculpting. In this &#39;beWell&#39; segment we&#39;re focusing on core strength with four pelvic floor exercises.</div>

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Be Well: Pelvic Floor Exercises

Today, we're going to target our abs, but there are different ways to do it and it's not really a crunch. It's kind of like a full abdominal workout. So li from hot spot is with us. So talk me through what we're going to do. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to focus on our pelvic floor, pelvic floor, sort of a hammock that runs from your pelvis down to your coy and it's something that's not normally focused on, but what we're going to do will bring a lot of focus to it. Ok. So we're gonna curl down, what we're gonna do is hands planted on the floor, shoulder blades down. You are going to lift your head neck and shoulders ever so slightly. Take your left hand and place it on your right knee. Feel that tension like you're having a fight between your hand and your knee, your opposite hand and leg will come in as you exhale, straighten that leg straighten that arm over your head and push your hand into your knee. Feel that tension pull your spine in and come back and relax deep breath in exhale, push away pull in and relax and you can switch to the opposite side. I would say to do somewhere between 5 to 7 reps, 3 to 4 sets. OK. And, and I really wanna pay attention to what my pelvic area is doing and how I'm kind of pushing into it, contracting it and then creating that tension. Do you want that tension between your hand and your leg? That's what's gonna create that tension in your core? Ok. If I'm a little more, if you flip it over into a table top position, hands directly under your shoulders, you're pushing the floor away from you, rounding your back. There's a couple of different modifications you can do. The first one is picking up that left leg, sending it straight away. Hips are in line with your knee and your ankle and you're pulling that core in tight and then you can tap down if you want to make it more advanced, you can send your opposite arm away from you, make sure that your wrist is in line with your shoulder here and again, you're pushing the floor away from you, pulling that belly button in, you can tap in the middle, crunch in, curl your shoulders and your spine and shoot back out again. And then I would do that on either side for a certain number of rides. I would do 8 to 10 reversing alternating back and forth three sets. All right, I love it. Thanks. So much. You're welcome. My pleasure.