Dr. Sara Reardon

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542 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 11 Feb

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The Last Show with David Cooper · FULL EPISODE: Release The Kraken! - February 10, 2026 · 11 Feb 2026 podcast

And when you're

relaxing well to have good bowel movements and empty your bladder well.

Those are the day-to-day things you can do to keep these pelvic floor muscles healthy.

And then you can strengthen them.

Just like if you want bigger biceps, you do more bicep curls, right?

You can do more pelvic floor contractions to strengthen these muscles.

So Kegels are pelvic floor muscle contractions.

It's like as if you are trying to hold in urine or hold in gas.

So they're tightening and lifting of these muscles, but you also have to relax the muscles well.

I think the narrative in the 90s was just do your Kegels and your pelvic floor is going to be healthy.

That is not always true.

You have to contract these muscles and relax them well.

And you also have to use the muscles in different positions.

You can't just do Kegels in the carpool lane.

You have to do them with

strength training the regular lane as well oh no no any any traffic lane but you've got to use them in standing and squatting and lunging and all of the activities you need throughout the day so they are one exercise it's like saying if you have back pain just do crunches it definitely takes more than that if you have you want stronger pelvic floor muscles this is the way to start but you have to do longer contractions different positions and build them into strength training

Absolutely.

I think, you know, one of the biggest mistakes, and this is getting better, is that we were all taught to like just hold these muscles super tight all the time, like suck your belly button in, tighten your vagina.

And it's actually, again, about relaxation of these muscles.

To accommodate something internally, we need to be able to relax these muscles and soften.

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