To think it is a really bad idea to engage your pelvic floor

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.. throughout an hour long Pilates session?

Why?

What?

Why?

Feels wrong.

All right then don't.

What is engaging your pelvic floor?

Instructor says to keep pelvic floor engaged throughout.

Do you mean as in, not weeing on the floor?

I expect you know far more about pilates than your instructor - why not point this out to her, next class? Do pop back & tell us how grateful she & your classmates are to reeive your wisdom.

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Well why don't you as your Pilates instructor about it then rather than a bunch of randoms on the internet?

I can tell you that once you get past menopause, you'll end up pretty grateful for good control of those pelvic floor muscles.

Are you possibly taking her too literally? Surely she means throughout each exercise not a solid hour of pelvic floor engagement..

I never said I know more about Pilates than a fully qualified instructor. But it does feel wrong to keep them continually engaged. They should relax, like other muscles. Maybe she's not qualified.

She tested me and said that I basically don't have a pelvic floor.

I don't think anyone can keep it engaged constantly I think like PP said it's to remind you to keep re engaging it which is a good think to work out and be reminded of I think it's understood that you would relax between sets but keep remembering to re engage it.

Maybe you should try engaging it once in a while then.

Engaging your pelvic floor means tightening and loosening the muscles..

Not just holding for an hour

You're ignorance here is the issue

how did she test you lol?

Oh right.

She said keep it engaged throughout (the session).

Your explanation makes sense.

How did she test you?!

They put their hands on the lower part of your tummy area and apparently they can feel if your pelvic floor is engaged.

You should ask someone physiotherapy professional, but I think engaging pelvic floor for 1 hour straight is too much. There was NHS app with exercises for it and some women wrote opinions in app store that it doing these these exercises unsupervised for prolonged periods of time caused them even more trouble.

Thanks for the advice. It was starting to feel 'wrong', like an over-worked muscle. No pain but just a sense of doing damage.

Did you research the instructor/class before you started? Have you asked them what their background and qualifications are?