Squatting With A Hip Hinge to help strengthen your pelvic floor

Squatting is an important movement for day to day tasks, as well as, as great exercise for helping to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. Our pelvic floor and hip muscles share numerous fascial and boney landmark connections, and work together to help create stability throughout our pelvis. This video explains how to perform a squat efficiently, and how to do so while also incorporating your pelvic floor. Perform 2x10 reps.

[@tlilaboty]

Less word and more demonstration is always helpful to understand.

[@hafizal3783]

You have awesome fitness. I have to listen to you cuz u r a doc. Too. You are so underrated. Well done doc. Thanks for your video

[@movewithDrChris]

Thank you, glad you found this video helpful

[@Arpit.singh.]

I do heavy squatting in Gym but they are not as low as you told in the video

[@Sternschnuppen85]

Thanks for this video! Quick question for you-when you go down into the squat are the hamstrings used more and quads help to just stabilize in that position? Then on the way back up, quads are more active? Thanks for the help!!

[@movewithDrChris]

You're welcome. The quads and hamstrings are part of equation, but you want the gluts to be a primary muscle that's involved throughout the movement, hence the focus on the hip hinge to improve accessibility to the gluts.

[@Sternschnuppen85]

@@movewithDrChris ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the insight and tips!

[@ramonaphillipsteach3284]

How many sets? Good video

[@movewithDrChris]

I like to recommend setting a timer for one minute, and then exploring as many quality reps as possible until the timer goes off. Mix this into your day a few times to help build up your strength (it will come faster than you think) so you can work up to doing this with weights.