So, NO PICS THIS ROUND, as its a quick rundown. HOWEVER, I do expect to get pics in the next couple of weeks 🙂
CLIENT A: This client is in her early 30s and is now 34 WEEKS pregnant. She had started out at 28 weeks with a diastasis of 5 fingerwidths in the middle, 4 three inches above the belly button, and 3 1/2 three inches below the belly button. She had since brought things in to a VERY decent 3 in three middle, 2 3/4 on top and 2 three inches below the belly button. THEN – and this is what ALWAYS seems to get my clients – she MOVED. All the lifting boxes…and making sure to bring the transverse in BEFORE lifting the boxes, and also NOT lifting the boxes that you can’t keep your transverse in….which means the box is TOO heavy for the current strength of the tranverse. At this point there is a couple choices (before moving) – strengthen your transverse BIG TIME so you CAN help to move the invariably heavy boxes, or leave the heavier boxes to someone else. Well, my cute client told me the day before I was to come for our session that she CRAMMED – (did I mention she did tons of school, being a neurologist) meaning she did several sets of 100 SEATED TUPLERS.
Well since I have never seen anyone MOVE unscathed, at least those in the PROCESS of closing their diastasis, let alone a PREGNANT women 34 weeks along (increasingly more forward pressure of the uterus) – I was VERY PLEASANTLY surprised to find she had actually DECREASED her diastasis. She was a 1 3/4 in the middle, 1 1/2 on the top, and 1 on the bottom. This is considered CLINICALLY closed, at this point. With Diastasis rehab, we know its not too much more work to bring that ALL the way closed, and strengtouhen your belly, your back, and bring your waistline in and make you cosmetically look SO much better!. ALL THIS while MOVING and having a RAPIDLY expanding belly.
CLIENT E: This client has not been introduced yet. She is in her late 30s, and a mom to 4 kids. She is a real go-getter. She is a 4 on top, 4 in the middle, and 6 on the bottom with her diastasis, as well as a hernia in the middle and bottom. She has been using pelvic floor weights called “STEP FREE” and had always had the experience of the weights FALLING OUT. You are supposed to be able to put them in and “forget about them.” Well, since they always FELL out, she didn’t want to wear them. So since doing SEATED TUPLERS sets of 100, which works the pubococcygeus muslce ( the “kegel” muscle, or the one that controls urine flow) she can now put in the STEP FREE WEIGHTS
and the step free will FINALLY STAY PUT. So while that was an unexpected perk for HER, it IS one of the benefits of doing 5 + sets of Seated Tuplers Daily.
The only exception? While PREGNANT you RELAX THE PELVIC FLOOR while doing the Seated Tuplers, so that when PUSHING OUT A BABY, you will bring your transverse BACK to the 5th floor and open the pelvic floor. The mind body connection will be established of “transverse back, pelvic floor relaxed” throughout the entire pregnancy, and practiced during a bowel movement. Then when its time to push, its AUTOMATIC. This is called PERFECT PUSHING.
