Personal training & pelvic floor therapy: Let's be friends?

A personal trainer and a pelvic floor therapist break bread.

After my substack therapy session earlier this week, it got me thinking a lot about interdisciplinary collaborations in the pelvic floor world. We so often work in silos, but there’s a whole world of folks who support pelvic floors out there: urogynecologists and OB/GYNs, obvs, but also — personal trainers, pilates, yoga, and other fitness instructors — the list goes on.

And some of these folks are absolutely fantastic assets to a treatment team. I personally feel that fitness trainers are a pretty underutilized resource.

Anna Maltby

is one such amazing human. She’s a personal trainer with serious pelvic floor chops and a great journalist (if you aren’t subscribed to How to Move, an anti-diet newsletter on exercise, you’re really missing out). So when I thought about interviewing a personal trainer on the intersection of pelvic health, personal training, and pelvic floor therapy, Anna seemed like the obvious choice.

Wouldn’t it be rad if everyone had a collaborative care team!?

Let’s do this! Anna and I talk about the breakdown between pelvic floor therapy and personal training, what to look for in a trainer (and what to look for in a red flag), and when you might want to see either or both! Anna drops an insane amount of wisdome re: the nuance of finding a trainer who knows their shit. Plus we discover a mutual colleague/friend in the best small world moment!