High impact workouts and negative body consequences

[Anonymous]

As our gym instructors say, if you're peeing your pants during the jumping jacks, you need some help.

Talk to your doc about a referral to a specialist PT. In the meantime, do the pelvic floor exercises that you find online.

[Anonymous]

Pelvic floor PT! Don't just start doing kegels - it's possible you have an overactive pelvic floor, and kegels would make it worse.

Leaking is common, but it is not "normal." We are not supposed to just lose bladder control after a certain age or number of babies. You definitely do need help.

I would honestly stop with the running for now. You probably have some postural issues, weak glutes, tight hip flexors, maybe overactive inner thighs that are contributing to your leakage, and running is probably making them worse. I know it can be hard to accept that when you're a person that is "in good shape," but it happened to me, too.

I do mommastrong.com. It's a good workout that is specifically made to be healthy for your pelvic floor. There's a lot of good info that could help you, including a special incontinence course. They are only 15 min workouts, but you can double them up if you want, and then walk or do other things if that's still not enough exericse for you.

[Anonymous]

Go see a urogynecologist. There are many options for treatment! My issue was slightly different but medical intervention was life changing.

[Anonymous]

I had really good luck with ThermiVa - one of those radiofrequency treatments. It was expensive (and awkward to be wanded for 20 minutes by a doctor) and requires a “touch up” every six months, but it stopped my leakage.

[Anonymous]

Talk to your doctor first. I’m a CPT and would advise a client to see a doctor before going any further in training. It could be as simple as pelvic floor weakness. But a doctor can rule out everything else.

Restricting water before exercise is not a great idea. You don’t need to drink gallons of water before a run. But you need to start the run well-hydrated. If you’re exercising in hot weather or for more than an hour, you need to drink during your workout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As our gym instructors say, if you're peeing your pants during the jumping jacks, you need some help.

Talk to your doc about a referral to a specialist PT. In the meantime, do the pelvic floor exercises that you find online.

Really? I think every non has some degree of leakage during long and intense HIIT classes.

Leaking on a daily basis doing normal activities or running is not normal. Leaking on here and there 30 min into burpees, tuck jumps, and such is not at all abnormal for women who have given birth. But small amounts. If you are full on wetting yourself then yeah I would go see a professional

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As our gym instructors say, if you're peeing your pants during the jumping jacks, you need some help.

Talk to your doc about a referral to a specialist PT. In the meantime, do the pelvic floor exercises that you find online.

Really? I think every non has some degree of leakage during long and intense HIIT classes.

Leaking on a daily basis doing normal activities or running is not normal. Leaking on here and there 30 min into burpees, tuck jumps, and such is not at all abnormal for women who have given birth. But small amounts. If you are full on wetting yourself then yeah I would go see a professional

DP, and no. That's a common misconception, just as it's common for women to leak urine but not "normal" or healthy. I don't leak urine during any of those activities and I have three children, none of whom were delivered by C-section.

So, no, not every woman has some degree of leakage, HIIT or no.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As our gym instructors say, if you're peeing your pants during the jumping jacks, you need some help.

Talk to your doc about a referral to a specialist PT. In the meantime, do the pelvic floor exercises that you find online.

Really? I think every non has some degree of leakage during long and intense HIIT classes.

Leaking on a daily basis doing normal activities or running is not normal. Leaking on here and there 30 min into burpees, tuck jumps, and such is not at all abnormal for women who have given birth. But small amounts. If you are full on wetting yourself then yeah I would go see a professional

DP, and no. That's a common misconception, just as it's common for women to leak urine but not "normal" or healthy. I don't leak urine during any of those activities and I have three children, none of whom were delivered by C-section.

So, no, not every woman has some degree of leakage, HIIT or no.

Our gym’s HIIT instructors (women) joke about it during really intense moments of our workout, so yes it is very common

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As our gym instructors say, if you're peeing your pants during the jumping jacks, you need some help.

Talk to your doc about a referral to a specialist PT. In the meantime, do the pelvic floor exercises that you find online.

Really? I think every non has some degree of leakage during long and intense HIIT classes.

Leaking on a daily basis doing normal activities or running is not normal. Leaking on here and there 30 min into burpees, tuck jumps, and such is not at all abnormal for women who have given birth. But small amounts. If you are full on wetting yourself then yeah I would go see a professional

DP, and no. That's a common misconception, just as it's common for women to leak urine but not "normal" or healthy. I don't leak urine during any of those activities and I have three children, none of whom were delivered by C-section.

So, no, not every woman has some degree of leakage, HIIT or no.

What is your background and qualification to make such a pronouncement because I find that it's pretty common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pelvic floor PT! Don't just start doing kegels - it's possible you have an overactive pelvic floor, and kegels would make it worse.

Leaking is common, but it is not "normal." We are not supposed to just lose bladder control after a certain age or number of babies. You definitely do need help.

I would honestly stop with the running for now. You probably have some postural issues, weak glutes, tight hip flexors, maybe overactive inner thighs that are contributing to your leakage, and running is probably making them worse. I know it can be hard to accept that when you're a person that is "in good shape," but it happened to me, too.

I do mommastrong.com. It's a good workout that is specifically made to be healthy for your pelvic floor. There's a lot of good info that could help you, including a special incontinence course. They are only 15 min workouts, but you can double them up if you want, and then walk or do other things if that's still not enough exericse for you.

This is OP, as I said, the issue isn't when I run, it's during other activities, specifically jumping. It probably is a pelvic floor issue so I will look more into that so I can better focus on that specific area which has probably been neglected. In my everyday life I just avoid trampolines and bounce houses which I don't really find limiting. That there are so many options and products on the market suggest this is common enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As our gym instructors say, if you're peeing your pants during the jumping jacks, you need some help.

Talk to your doc about a referral to a specialist PT. In the meantime, do the pelvic floor exercises that you find online.

Really? I think every non has some degree of leakage during long and intense HIIT classes.

Leaking on a daily basis doing normal activities or running is not normal. Leaking on here and there 30 min into burpees, tuck jumps, and such is not at all abnormal for women who have given birth. But small amounts. If you are full on wetting yourself then yeah I would go see a professional

DP, and no. That's a common misconception, just as it's common for women to leak urine but not "normal" or healthy. I don't leak urine during any of those activities and I have three children, none of whom were delivered by C-section.

So, no, not every woman has some degree of leakage, HIIT or no.

What is your background and qualification to make such a pronouncement because I find that it's pretty common.

I'm the "gym instructor" poster. Yes, it's common. But, no, it's not okay. As they yell, "ladies, I don't care how many kids you've had, if you're peeing right now, you need to get that checked out."

I was a leaker myself a while back. Not anymore. It was a different type of muscle strengthening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As our gym instructors say, if you're peeing your pants during the jumping jacks, you need some help.

Talk to your doc about a referral to a specialist PT. In the meantime, do the pelvic floor exercises that you find online.

Really? I think every non has some degree of leakage during long and intense HIIT classes.

Leaking on a daily basis doing normal activities or running is not normal. Leaking on here and there 30 min into burpees, tuck jumps, and such is not at all abnormal for women who have given birth. But small amounts. If you are full on wetting yourself then yeah I would go see a professional

DP, and no. That's a common misconception, just as it's common for women to leak urine but not "normal" or healthy. I don't leak urine during any of those activities and I have three children, none of whom were delivered by C-section.

So, no, not every woman has some degree of leakage, HIIT or no.

What is your background and qualification to make such a pronouncement because I find that it's pretty common.

I'm the "gym instructor" poster. Yes, it's common. But, no, it's not okay. As they yell, "ladies, I don't care how many kids you've had, if you're peeing right now, you need to get that checked out."

I was a leaker myself a while back. Not anymore. It was a different type of muscle strengthening.

And I'm the one who said it's not "normal" or healthy: my source is the pelvic floor PT I saw for a check up of sorts (had just turned 40, have three kids, wanted to see how I was doing, even with no leakage). I'm pretty athletic and when we talked about workouts, she was adamant that urine leakage is not healthy, although it's all too commonly normalized as "okay" since it happens to so many women.

Also, something can be common and not universal. This is one of those things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t there tampon like products that are marketed to those with mild urinary incontinence? Maybe you could check those out?

I don’t known that’s why I’m asking. This is mostly an exercise issue, not all day.

These are the items I’ve seen:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/this-tampon-like-device-stops-your-urinary-incontinence/

I hope you find a good solution!

No experience with these? I wonder if they work as advertised.

I used one of these while running a 5K and it worked great.

[Anonymous]

Def go see a uro-gyn. There are lots of different solutions. Mine fitted me for this plastic ring thing that I have to insert and it sort of pushes things back up where they are supposed to be and no leakage. It works, it was just awkward to put in and pull out but... better than nothing? Anyway, I probably would have gone back to the Dr and investigated next steps but then the pandemic hit, and I haven't made it that far yet. But the uro-gyn was a good first step.

[Anonymous]

Get pelvic floor PT! You don’t have to live like this.