Sometimes we learn we’ve had it all wrong. I share this story with our guest, Kirstyn Campbell, in our first few minutes together so I won’t repeat it here. Let’s just say I’ve never paid much attention to my pelvic floor health, especially after my baby season was over. After talking with Kirstyn I realize this is probably an area that needs a little more attention.  

Kirstyn is a personal trainer and Mom’s fitness specialist based in New Zealand. She’s a mom of two herself and is driven and passionate to train women safely, repairing and building strong core foundations. One of her specialties is repairing the core – including pelvic floor, glutes, upper and lower back. Teaching mums how to respect and honour what their amazing bodies have been through, and what they’re capable of doing today preparing for tomorrow. Half of the process is listening to your body and learning what is good for it.

I love this quote from her website: Society expects women to have children. Then when we do, our bodies are expected to look and function as though we haven’t.

I know you’re going to feel as drawn to Kirstyn as I do. She’s warm and takes away any shame from these uncomfortable topics.

Just like last week’s episode discussing gynecological cancer with Jenna Unke, this episode focuses on women’s health. We use the correct terminology throughout, so if you aren’t at a place where you feel comfortable with other people hearing anatomically correct words, bookmark this and come back at a better time.

About Kirstyn

Kirstyn Campbell is mum of two crazy kids. While Kirstyn specialises in running small group post natal rehabilitation/ Tight Mummy Tummy & Bits classes, she also runs bigger bootcamp and boxing sessions motivating and challenging mums ready to take on the next level confidently in a safe and fun environment, that is safe for our mama bodies.

Kirstyn had always enjoyed pushing her body and mind to its limits seeing what it was capable of with things like 100 day burpee challenges and running marathons. With polycystic ovaries, irritable bowel and leaky gut syndrome she pushed through any warning signs her body gave, seeing these as weakness instead of just part of who she was. This caused her to suffer a full top to bottom tummy split as a result of exercising as though her body was perfectly healthy and she’d never given birth – 7 years earlier. The tummy split and weakened pelvic floor were life changing. Kirstyn had intensive physiotherapy with a Women’s Health Physio, researched and studied pre and post natal care. She completely changed her approach to training and her business focus.

Kirstyn is driven and passionate to train women safely, repairing and building strong core foundations. She continues to further her studies in specialising in repairing the core – including pelvic floor, gluts, upper and lower back. Teaching mums how to respect and honour what their amazing bodies have been through, and what they’re capable of doing today preparing for tomorrow. Half of the process is listening to your body and learning what is good for it.

Learning how to listen to her body, how to train herself and mums safely and effectively is what drives Kirstyn to help other mums from going through what she has.

“Society expects us women to have children. Then when we do, our bodies are expected to look and function as though we haven’t.” This way of thinking is what tore my tummy down the middle. I’m not interested in sculpting bikini bodies. Rather empowering mums to learn how to love themselves from the inside out, to show them their self-worth in the season of life they’re in. To enjoy the quality of life they’d like, without the embarrassment of leaking. To be the best version of themselves, not comparing or trying to match-up up to the pressures, false images and expectations in social media.

Kirstyn’s passionate about working with mums to help give them back control and confidence. To bring about the freedom to talk about our bodies with each other which unlocks the reality that so many others are suffering with similar things. “We’ve been created to live in community, not on an island.”

Kirstyn is driven to remove the shame of a mum’s body, rather encourage them to wear their mum badges with pride. Enabling them to be healthy, happy and confident in their own skin. The strongest and fittest they’ve ever been, enjoying the quality of life they deserve – with, of course – leak free laughter!

We discuss:

• Signs to look for if your pelvic floor is weak.
• Diastasis recti does it get better over time?
• Biomechanics of what happens to our pelvic floor when we have babies.
• Exercises to integrate into everyday workouts.
• How peri menopause and menopause effect our pelvic floor.

Click either image to learn more or purchase Kirstyn’s programs (Core Restore and Sneeze without Weez)

Connect with Kirstyn:

• kirstyn@kcfit.co.nz 
• Instagram: @kcfitnz
• Facebook: KC Fit NZ
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRrduZTaqxt2KYPynFg4bDQ

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