From the Couch to Consistency: Building Healthy Habits That Last with Caitlin Clarke - Part 2

I was going to say from that point.

It doesn't

have to be fancy, yeah.

From that

motivational point of view and you've got someone that comes in and says, you know, I don't do anything.

Yeah.

But then you can point out those things.

I think it's a nice buy-in for them, isn't it? Like it's like – You're already here.

You're not starting from nothing.

There's always something inbuilt and you've just got to build on that.

It might be walking to go get your coffee instead of jumping in the car for the five-minute car ride down the road.

And that might not be even a straightaway thing.

You might just walk to the corner and then come back or when you're at the coffee, you know, walk around the shopping centre or something.

Or if you go to the shops, that's often for me because as women, we like to go to the shops.

We like to have a bit of a shoppy around.

Sometimes I say to my patience too if you go to the shop like because okay i'm south side so i'm thinking of a carondale or whatever i'm going if you go to the shop rule is you have to loop at once then shop that because it's just adding in an extra circuit that you might not have already done yeah but then you get rewarded with the shopping so and you can window shop you can work out where you want to go that's right you're walking

around That's typically where we like to start in recommendations because it's often when someone starts doing a lot more than what they have been doing that we start to see more for injury and boom and bust.

Every time I start to exercise, I end up injured because they're fantastically motivated and they get really excited and so they start going from zero to 100 outside of that adaptation threshold, which is why it sounds so boring and so too good to be true to actually just do a little bit more of what you're already doing is the most meaningful way to be able to safely progress in your own setting independently with that reduced risk and I think as women we navigate so many different things around our pelvic health as well and that can be a big barrier or a big limiting sort of factor.

Well, if I increase my exercise and I start to see increased incontinence or I'm concerned about increasing my prolapse risk, and we do know we can safely increase exercise even with a prolapse or as part of management of incontinence, stress immunity or urge as well by making sure that things have progressed along gradually, working alongside someone like Meg who's a pelvic floor women's health physiotherapist who can give you specific recommendations and then building a little bit more of a support system around the pelvis in terms of building strength for those muscles that can take a bit more of the demand that the pelvis and the pelvic floor doesn't need to when we've got that additional strength around those muscles.

Totally.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So important.

I think that, that women hear that again and again too, because they see like that, that's a big barrier.

I think, you know, they think that, that it's just, there's no point because, you know, because it's going to get worse or, you know, those concerns coming from that side of it.