Feel strong in your body again, with exercise built for women's health
Evidence-based programs for pelvic floor, menopause, bone health, postpartum recovery and PCOS, designed and delivered one to one by Accredited Exercise Physiologists.
Three steps to feeling like yourself again
Free discovery call
Ten minutes with one of our women's health EPs. We listen to what is going on, answer your questions, and tell you honestly whether we are the right fit. No assessment, no commitment.
Your initial assessment
A thorough one to one session covering your history, your symptoms and where your body is now. We work out what is driving things and what your program needs to address.
Your personalised program
A program built around what we found, progressed as your capacity grows, and run alongside your GP or specialist where that helps.
A different kind of women's health program
Assessed, not assumed
Pelvic floor symptoms are not always about weakness, and a program aimed at the wrong pattern will not work no matter how consistent you are. Everything starts with finding out what is actually happening.
Led by women's health EPs
Every program is designed and delivered by Accredited Exercise Physiologists with specific training in women's health. Clinical exercise science, not a general fitness program adapted for women.
Private and one to one
Sessions run in a private consult room at our CBD and Norwest clinics, with the same practitioner each time. Nothing about it feels like a gym floor.
Find your condition
Pelvic floor health: more than kegels
Leaking, urgency, heaviness and pelvic pain are common and very treatable, yet most women are told to do more kegels and left to it. Dysfunction is not always weakness. Muscles that are too tight cause a different set of symptoms and need close to the opposite treatment, which is why so many women do their exercises for months and feel no different.
Our EPs work out which pattern you have first, then build from there: breathing, pressure management, whole body strength, and a return to the activities you have been avoiding.
What treatment addresses
- Leaking with coughing, laughing, lifting or running
- Urgency, frequency and difficulty emptying
- Heaviness, dragging or a sensation of bulging
- Pelvic pain and pain during intercourse
- Rebuilding capacity for impact and heavy lifting
- Postpartum recovery and menopause related change
Moving through menopause with strength
The hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause affect bone density, muscle mass, mood, sleep and cardiovascular health at the same time. Exercise is one of the most useful tools available, but it needs to be the right type at the right intensity for where your body is now.
Symptoms that arrive in this phase are common. Common is not the same as normal, and it is a long way from untreatable.
What exercise does for you
- Counteracts muscle loss and supports long term strength
- Supports bone density and helps manage fracture risk
- Improves mood, sleep quality and energy levels
- Supports cardiovascular health
- Helps manage body composition changes
- Supports pelvic floor function
Building the bones to carry you forward
Osteoporosis and osteopenia are far more common in women, particularly after menopause. Targeted resistance and weight bearing exercise is one of the better studied interventions available, and starting later still counts.
Bring your DEXA results to your first appointment and we will translate the numbers into a plan, run alongside your GP or endocrinologist.
What exercise does for you
- Loads bone in the way that stimulates it to adapt
- Improves balance and coordination to reduce fall risk
- Builds the muscle that protects joints and skeleton
- Programming matched to your current bone density
- Works alongside medication and dietary management
Safe, supported movement through every trimester
Exercise through pregnancy and after birth is safe and beneficial for most women, but it needs adapting to your stage, your body and your circumstances. Our EPs are trained in prenatal and postnatal prescription, including pelvic floor considerations, abdominal separation, and returning to exercise after birth.
If your pregnancy has any complicating factors, we work with your obstetrician or midwife rather than around them.
Read more from our EPs
What exercise does for you
- Associated with lower risk of gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders
- Supports strength through the core, hips and pelvis
- Prepares the pelvic floor for birth and recovery
- Helps manage back pain and pelvic girdle pain
- Supports mood and sleep
- Supports a safer return to activity postpartum
Exercise as part of PCOS management
PCOS affects insulin sensitivity, energy, body composition, mood and menstrual regularity. The research on exercise here is strong, particularly resistance training, and it addresses the underlying drivers rather than the surface symptoms.
Exercise tolerance and symptom patterns vary a lot between women with PCOS, which is why a generic program tends to underdeliver.
Read more from our EPs
What exercise does for you
- Improves insulin sensitivity and glucose regulation
- Supports body composition without extremes
- Supports hormonal and menstrual cycle regularity
- Improves mood, energy and mental wellbeing
- Helps manage long term cardiometabolic risk
Start with something smaller
Not ready to book? Both guides are written by our women's health EPs, and both include something you can act on today.
Specialists in women's health exercise physiology
Sydney CBD
Maddie Hamilton
Accredited Exercise Physiologist
Maddie works across pelvic floor rehabilitation, postpartum recovery and hormonal health conditions, alongside cardiometabolic and musculoskeletal rehab. She has a particular interest in female athletes and in women navigating exercise through pregnancy.
- Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science
- Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology, ACU
- Accredited by Exercise and Sports Science Australia
Norwest
Navneet Mahajan
Accredited Exercise Physiologist
Nav works with women across every life stage, from pelvic health and postpartum recovery through to PCOS, menopause and returning to training. Her approach is thorough and personalised, delivered in our private Norwest facility.
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise Physiology), Honours First Class, Sydney University
- Certified Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist
- Accredited by Exercise and Sports Science Australia
Before you book
No. You can book directly with any of our Exercise Physiologists. A referral is only needed if you want to claim through Medicare, which requires a GP Chronic Disease Management plan, or if you are claiming through DVA or NDIS.
If you have extras cover that includes exercise physiology, rebates apply. Bring your card and we can process the claim at reception.
Medicare rebates may cover part of your visits where your GP has set up a Chronic Disease Management plan. Cover varies between funds and individual policies, so it is worth checking with your fund before your first visit, or calling us and we will talk you through it.
The Women's Health Initial runs 60 minutes. We review your history, your symptoms, birth history where relevant, your training background and what you want to get back to. Then we assess strength, movement, breathing, pressure management and how your symptoms behave under load.
You leave with a plan built around what we find. It is a private consult room, you set the pace, and nothing happens that you are not comfortable with.
No. Internal assessment sits within the scope of a pelvic health physiotherapist rather than an Exercise Physiologist. We assess function through movement, breathing, load and symptom response, and where an internal assessment would add something we will refer you to a pelvic health physio and work alongside them.
Yes, please bring anything relevant. DEXA scans are particularly useful if you have had one, and we will translate the numbers into what they mean for your program. Any imaging, blood results or specialist letters are worth bringing too.
This is the most common thing we hear. Usually the exercises were not wrong, they were aimed at the wrong pattern. A pelvic floor that is too tight and cannot relax does not respond to more squeezing, and no amount of consistency fixes that.
Working out which pattern you have is the point of the assessment, and it is the step that gets skipped when women are handed a generic sheet of exercises.
Comfortable clothing you can move in, and shoes you would train in. Nothing more specific than that.
Ready to feel strong in your body again?
Start with a free 10 minute call. No assessment, no commitment, just an honest conversation about what is going on and whether we can help.
Sydney CBD
Level 2, 160 King Street, Sydney NSW · with Maddie Hamilton
Norwest
A2/12-14 Columbia Way, Norwest NSW · with Navneet Mahajan
Not sure which to choose? Start with the free call, it is just a conversation. Or phone us on (02) 8677 6844 for Norwest, or (02) 8041 0762 for Sydney CBD.