Can you cycle with a prolapse? I spent ten years assuming I could not, and nobody had ever told me that. Not a doctor, not a physio, not a health visitor. I had simply decided somewhere along the way that a bike would be uncomfortable, that uncomfortable would become painful, and that painful might bring my symptoms back. I never tested it once.
Then my youngest asked if I had a bike, because he wanted to show me the tracks and hills he had been exploring on his own in the far north of Scotland. And I did not have one.
In this video I tell you exactly what happened when I bought a second hand bike in Thurso and got back on. What I felt on the saddle. What I was frightened of afterwards. And what actually happened. One woman, one bike, one body. I am not telling you what yours will do. I am telling you what mine did, and that nobody had ever actually told me not to.
The honest answer starts at 13:23 if you want to go straight there.
Underneath the bike sits the bigger thing. I had become the woman I talk to every week on this podcast. And it took a month with no work, no diary and a lot of sky before I could see it.
This is the last episode until January. Here is why, and here is what is coming.
Weekly newsletter & FREE Class: https://go.clairesparrowpilates.co.uk/free-intro-class
Whole Body Pelvic Health Cafe, free and live on Zoom, 7pm UK, Fridays 18 September, 20 November, 11 December: https://go.clairesparrowpilates.co.uk/pelvic-health-cafe-register
Questions for the January series: claire@wholebodypelvichealth.co.uk
My book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJDBV1YD?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_KV5A9QBC5DXQWF04E0TZ
Chapters (approximate, shift by the length of the new pickup, then tighten after the edit)
00:00 I do not have a bike
00:50 If you came here from a search, read this first
02:20 Why this is the last episode until January
03:00 Far north, and what remote really means
04:00 Walks, wild swimming, the North Baths and the Trinkie
06:00 Ewan and his mountain bike adventures
07:30 Do you have a bike?
08:30 The drift I never noticed
12:20 The assumption nobody gave me
13:23 The honest answer: finding a bike in Thurso
15:00 The first ride, and what I felt on the saddle
16:40 What happened afterwards
18:00 If something does change, that is information
19:00 Getting off the sidelines
21:00 The big hill, the deer, the view from the top
22:20 The bike is not the lesson. Stopping is.
24:20 If one month showed me that, what else is there?
26:40 What is changing in January
28:00 Send me your questions
29:00 Newsletter, and the Pelvic Health Cafe dates
31:20 What is your bike?
33:10 Go find your bike
Then my youngest asked if I had a bike, because he wanted to show me the tracks and hills he had been exploring on his own in the far north of Scotland. And I did not have one.
In this video I tell you exactly what happened when I bought a second hand bike in Thurso and got back on. What I felt on the saddle. What I was frightened of afterwards. And what actually happened. One woman, one bike, one body. I am not telling you what yours will do. I am telling you what mine did, and that nobody had ever actually told me not to.
The honest answer starts at 13:23 if you want to go straight there.
Underneath the bike sits the bigger thing. I had become the woman I talk to every week on this podcast. And it took a month with no work, no diary and a lot of sky before I could see it.
This is the last episode until January. Here is why, and here is what is coming.
Weekly newsletter & FREE Class: https://go.clairesparrowpilates.co.uk/free-intro-class
Whole Body Pelvic Health Cafe, free and live on Zoom, 7pm UK, Fridays 18 September, 20 November, 11 December: https://go.clairesparrowpilates.co.uk/pelvic-health-cafe-register
Questions for the January series: claire@wholebodypelvichealth.co.uk
My book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJDBV1YD?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_KV5A9QBC5DXQWF04E0TZ
Chapters (approximate, shift by the length of the new pickup, then tighten after the edit)
00:00 I do not have a bike
00:50 If you came here from a search, read this first
02:20 Why this is the last episode until January
03:00 Far north, and what remote really means
04:00 Walks, wild swimming, the North Baths and the Trinkie
06:00 Ewan and his mountain bike adventures
07:30 Do you have a bike?
08:30 The drift I never noticed
12:20 The assumption nobody gave me
13:23 The honest answer: finding a bike in Thurso
15:00 The first ride, and what I felt on the saddle
16:40 What happened afterwards
18:00 If something does change, that is information
19:00 Getting off the sidelines
21:00 The big hill, the deer, the view from the top
22:20 The bike is not the lesson. Stopping is.
24:20 If one month showed me that, what else is there?
26:40 What is changing in January
28:00 Send me your questions
29:00 Newsletter, and the Pelvic Health Cafe dates
31:20 What is your bike?
33:10 Go find your bike