Carrying on from the last week’s episode in this mini series discussing the clothing options available to women taking part in sport and the barriers women may face due to clothing, I am chatting this week to Yvonne Brady who is the Founder of EVB Sport, a company that makes support shorts and leggings to help women who may be experiencing symptoms of incontinence, pelvic floor weakness, and prolapse. This was born out of Yvonne’s personal experience with pelvic floor dysfunction following the birth of her 3rd baby and her decision to start running pretty soon after.
As with Rosie Cook in last week’s episode and Alex Feechan in next week’s episode, here is another example of a woman seeing a problem that only women face, seeing that there aren’t any good options out there for helping solve this and going out and doing something about it.
This is an interesting alternative perspective, I hope you’ll find really relevant to the discussion around women’s participation in all types of movement. If we’re ashamed of our bodies because we perceive they have let us down because we haven’t heard an open discussion about it, then I believe that contributes to women stopping getting involved or continuing participation in sport. As Yvonne says in this chat, it’s not a body failure, it’s just mechanics, let’s get the support, both physically and mentally to get stronger and we’ll be unstoppable!
As we mention, here are some links:
EVB Sport: https://evbsport.com
The recently published postnatal running guidelines, written by Emma Brockwell, Grainne Donnelly and Tom Goom:
https://mailchi.mp/38feb9423b2d/returning-to-running-postnatal-guideline
Check out my chat with ultra runner, Sophie Power in episode 24, and my chat with Emma Brockwell (Physio Mum) in episode 5 both talking post-natal running and their experiences.