About ANDREA KRISTON  and the KIT

WHO IS ANDREA

Andrea Kriston is a Hungarian lady. Her career started when she graduated as a biology and PE teacher. She taught, took private groups and had a strong drive to help her students love PE. Her ideas and methods soon became popular.

Later she went to the University of Physical Education, she got elected as one of the chair persons of the Hungarian Gynecologist Committee and worked in St Rókus Hospital. She has been training women, taking classes and teaching trainers ever since.


HOW IT ALL BEGAN

In 1988 she gave birth to her first child and after it! much to her surprise she heard “horror stories” from other young moms about weak pelvic floor muscles and its symptoms. What is more, she experienced them. Being fit, sporty and young she did not accept the fact that “young moms put up with these little inconveniences”. She did not.  She relied on her previous experiences, anatomy studies as well as traditions of women in the Far East (their pelvises have to cope with delivering babies quite large for the moms` bodies) – and started to exercise.  Six weeks later her doctor found she was “like a virgin” again.

Since then she has been improving her method.

 

THEORY

It is called KIT (Kriston Intim Torna) from her name and the term “intimate gymnastics”.

She was the one who introduced this term into Hungarian language and though today it is common part of everyday speech it took decades to be accepted.

By now her method is not the fancy stuff of bored ladies, not even a healing method for the ill, but part of conscious health-care – just as brushing the teeth.


The abdomen and the pelvis have plenty of taboos both in thinking and the language. Since her training is about this part of the body it is different from any other gym classes. Offers knowledge, words, names, and common sense anatomy besides the exercises and their benefits.

NO WORRIES!

Nothing embarrassing can ever happen. The trainer speaks, the students listen and focus their mind on “secret” hidden muscles, which cannot even be seen while using them. Would you like an example of the explanations? Here you are:


IMAGINE A BASKET

It is of strong fiber in three layers and attached to strong bones on the sides. That is the pelvic floor. The fibers at the bottom of the basket are of muscles. Tissue we are able to move and train.

Why do we need to do that?

- there are gaps in the fiber of this basket, which obviously make it weaker. The stronger we can close the gaps the better. (Ladies, do not forget we have more of them!)

- all our internal organs are held in this basket. The weight of the stomach, the bowels (let alone babies!) is all squeezing the pelvic floor, pressing it, preventing healthy blood circulation but demanding constant holding strength. (Too much sitting, tight clothes, incorrect breathing, excess weight or heavy lifting all can add to it.)

- extreme pressure and widening of the gaps in the bottom of the basket make it weaker again. (Think of sneezing, having to wait for the loo or constipation as well not only delivery. Though the latter makes the “gap” 10-12 times wider!)

- PLUS for ladies the whole material of the basket gets softer each month preparing the body for a possible pregnancy.

- PLUS for ladies again hormonal changes make it weaker in the time of the menopause.

 

So why does the basket need to be strong?

- the internal muscles hold the organs in place. (If they are sunk the tummy is bigger.)

- moving the muscles helps healthy bowel movement.

- closing the “gaps” properly gives protection from infections.

- flexible tissues and strong muscles help healthy child bearing and easier delivery PLUS the regeneration of the internal organs and the pelvic floor after child birth.

- better blood circulation brings nerves alive and more sensitive and tighter muscles also help sexual joy.

- with a trained pelvic floor ladies at any age can freely sneeze, cough, laugh or jump and jog if they wish to.

 

And not only ladies! Let me attach a newsletter from my physio: have a look here.

 

PRACTICE

This method offers ideas and ways how to feel and identify “secret muscles” and how to move them.

The majority of the muscles in the pelvic floor are just like our biceps, consciously moved and possible to train. The harder a muscle works the stronger it grows just like in the gym. (And no muscle is strong without exercising it!!!)

The 10 – 15 min morning and evening exercises result in 132% improvement within 10 weeks.


Besides the benefits above it also offers

- healthy ways of breathing

- face massage techniques

- tips to keep the breasts healthy and pretty

- ideas for healthy diet

- leg massage to ease period pain

- special exercises to aid milk production and breastfeeding

- and more…

 



I am NOT a KIT Trainer thus I am NOT teaching KIT classes. I use this approach for myself and my own experiences in Health-Dance.

I have collected this information above because I have not found references available in English (except for that one page linked bellow).

Source:

http://www.intimtorna.hu/

http://www.intimtorna.eu/english/the_Intimate_Exercise/About_me.html

Kriston Intom Torna Book