JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

Pelvic Floor Health is CRUCIAL for Women

16 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this instructional segment, a fitness professional explains that the pelvic floor is the often‑ignored foundation of the core, tightly linked to the diaphragm and breath. Because the pelvic floor muscles are internal and invisible, they are rarely incorporated into traditional core training. The speaker highlights how neglecting this muscle group can lead to significant life disruptions, including reduced sexual function, anxiety about urinary leakage, avoidance of fitness activities, and workplace distractions. By bringing awareness to the pelvic floor’s role, the talk underscores its critical importance for women’s overall health and daily performance.

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So you are a fitness professional like myself, you have heard of core exercise for probably 20+ years, but never has the pelvic floor been incorporated or included in that conversation around what is the core. So the pelvic floor is the foundation of our core, and it also works in relationship with our diaphragm. So it's very closely tied to our breath. And when everything's working well in that inner core system, we don't think about it. It's also that group of muscles is inside. We can't go to the mirror and flex like we do our biceps. So we don't see it. We see our external genitalia and we don't appreciate or understand the importance of this group of muscles because nobody's ever told us. And we don't think anything's wrong until there is something wrong. And now it becomes one of the only things we think about because it affects our sex life. It affects what decisions we make for going out and participating in fitness, going to work, being distracted by my leaking. Can people smell? Can they see my pad? Right? There's all these distractions that come in and start to overtake your life. But this, I call it really the foundation, is so, so important.