Course Description:

The Female Athlete with Antony Lo offers a new kind of online course. Have you ever felt that you could be doing better for your female clients? As a health or fitness professional, you have a lot of the pelvic health knowledge you need to help your clients, but they just don’t seem to be responding or achieving their dream goals. Sure, their symptoms have improved a bit but they still can’t run, jump, lift heavy weights or take part in what they want to do. They might be ante-natal, post-natal or never been pregnant – they may have incontinence, pelvic-organ prolapse, and/or diastasis. You might have been taught that these high impact, high load exercises and activities are “bad” things to do, and certainly, not everyone can go back to doing these things……

Yet, what if we were taught things that aren’t quite true, that the evidence doesn’t seem to support?
When the diagnosis of “diastasis recti” or “pelvic organ prolapse” is given, often those diagnosed are advised to give up on high level fitness goals and weightlifting. This can be detrimental to their overall fitness, cardiovascular health, and bone health. This course seeks to give a more nuanced and specific plan to address the individual in front of us instead of using cookie-cutter suggestions and exercise programs which can be very limiting. The need for this course was a result of frequent queries into the topic and the evidence in the field of the harm it was causing to the patients who had been treated this way.

This course is a participatory deep dive into clinical reasoning. Each section of video has a list of equipment needed. To get the most out of this experience, it's highly recommended that you have space, have on workout clothes, have the equipment ready and have a partner available (someone who has also purchased the course on their own, or someone who is NOT a health or fitness professional) who is willing to let you assess them for some of the practical sessions. This course was recorded live-online as a fully interactive online course with lots of Q&A over 4 days. Each of the four videos is approximately 5 hours long and was recorded during that live-online experience.