Can you exercise with pelvic organ prolapse? Can you lift weights? Squat? Run? Do planks? What exercises should you avoid with prolapse?
If you have pelvic organ prolapse (POP), chances are you’ve Googled at least one of those questions.
And chances are you’ve also come across a list of “safe exer...
The shift into perimenopause catches most women completely off guard when it comes to their pelvic floor. Symptoms that weren't there at 38 show up at 43 with no warning, no explanation, and no roadmap. If that's where you are right now, you're not declining. You're navigating a hormonal transition ...
If you've been doing pelvic floor exercises consistently and still leaking, still feeling pressure, still hurting, the problem isn't your effort. The pelvic floor is one component in a whole-body pressure management system, and when the rest of that system isn't addressed, even a well-executed exerc...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist
If leaking, pelvic pressure, heaviness, prolapse symptoms, or fear of making things worse has caused you to change the way you exercise, you are far from alone. In a study of 4,556 women with self-identified pelvic floor sym...
Pelvic floor dysfunction doesn't stay in the bathroom. It follows you into the bedroom too, and for millions of women, it makes sex painful, unsatisfying, or something to avoid entirely. Understanding what your pelvic floor is actually doing during intimacy changes how you approach both the problem ...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published August 30, 2026
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To evaluate a pelvic floor exercise provider, check whether the program treats the root cause of your dysfunction rather than prescribing generic Kegels. A credible provider explain...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published August 27, 2026
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Pelvic floor exercises, physiotherapy, pessaries, medication, and surgery each address a different part of pelvic floor dysfunction, and no single option fits everyone. Generic Kege...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published August 23, 2026
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The timing of pelvic floor training matters as much as the exercises themselves. Pain during exercise is a stop signal, a tight (hypertonic) floor needs release work before more con...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published August 16, 2026
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Kegels alone often fail because they train contraction while ignoring breath, posture, pressure management, and release. Most incontinence, prolapse, and pelvic-pain symptoms come f...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published August 10, 2026
Postpartum recovery is one of the most physically demanding transitions a woman's body goes through, and the advice flooding in from every direction rarely matches the complexity of what's actuall...
