Unless you're a keen cyclist who's been riding for years, the potential link between cycling and pelvic floor health is one you may not think about too much - until things start to go wrong. At least, that's my experience.
As an avid Peloton user who cycled three to five times a week, cycling was my favourite way to work out. I loved the fact it was cardio exercise but low impact, high on joy but easy on my joints. That was until I injured my sacrum (a triangular-shaped bone that sits between the hips and the last bone of the spine, just above the coccyx or 'tailbone') doing the London equivalent of slipping on a banana peel: I fell over on rain-slicked pavement while walking and landed on my sacrum. Yes, ouch is right. It was excruciating. As I let the injury recover over a slow 12 weeks, my doctor told me to try out different types of exercise and see how I felt. So, a couple of months into the healing process, I hopped back on my beloved Peloton bike to try and get back into cycling as a workout.
