Heavy lifting after completely healed from vaginal tightening and rectocele repair

Hello, if you have not had a surgical uterine prolapse procedure, there is no restriction on lifting weights after full recovery after rectocele, cystocele, labioplast and vaginal tightening surgeries. The reason for this restriction is that the strain reflex is accompanied by difficulty in heavy exercises. I recommend that you do kegel exercises at the same time as doing weight exercises.

Thank you for sharing this important question, I understand your concern, especially since you’ve already gone through both vaginal rejuvenation and rectocele repair. Once you are fully healed and cleared by your surgeon, you can usually return to most forms of exercise, including weightlifting. However, there are a few considerations to keep in mind.

Heavy lifting does place extra pressure on the pelvic floor. While this doesn’t automatically undo your surgery, consistently straining without proper technique can, over time, contribute to pelvic floor stress and potentially affect long-term results. Many women who lift weights after these procedures do very well, but it’s crucial to focus on correct breathing (avoiding holding your breath, or the Valsalva maneuver), engaging your core, and incorporating pelvic floor–friendly exercises.

In short, you don’t necessarily have to give up lifting, but adapting your technique and balancing your workouts with pelvic floor–strengthening routines (like Kegels or Pilates-based exercises) can help protect your results. If you’re lifting very heavy, it may be worth checking with your surgeon or a pelvic floor physical therapist for personalized guidance.

Hi, thank you for your question. It takes up to a year before you can see the final results of your surgery, and recovery looks different for everyone. Following a vaginal repair, you should refrain from any vaginal insertion for 6 weeks, including intercourse and tampons. You should also avoid heavy lifting and exerting yourself too greatly as this may negatively affect your healing. I would recommend voicing your concerns to your surgeon to determine if there are additional precautions you need to take.

Thank you for your questionThe answer depends on the type and quality of the repairs you received. A good solid repair should not be affected by weight lifting. There is no procedure called vaginal rejuvenation. It is the effect of any number of procedures that make the vagina more "youthful", so the quality of the repairs depend on the method(s) used. Site specific defect repair is probably the most efficient . Discuss the issue with your surgeon who would best know the type of procedure performed and the limits you should have.

There's nothing wrong with having vaginal rejuvenation surgery (vaginal tightening aka vaginoplasty) and a rectocele repair if you are a weightlifter. Be aware, however, that intense, heavy weightlifting will put significant stress on the pelvic floor and increase the chance that your repairs will loosen. If you have other factors that increase the chance for the repairs to loosen such as obesity, chronic cough, constipation, smoking, fisting, large sex toys, vaginal childbirth after your repairs, you might want to address them as much as possible to avoid "breaking the camel's back".

Unfortunately there is no doubt that heavy lifting has an influence over pelvic floor support. Having said that, there is no specific 'cut-off' where it is possible to give detailed guidelines. Also, you can certainly reduce your risk by having strong pelvic floor muscles, and learning how to protect your pelvic floor by squeezing the muscles before, and during, the lift. Also, it is important to realize that 'laxity' and prolapse, may not be related, and that heavy lifting over years, combined with gravity, and specifically constipation and straining, will increase the risk of prolapse, but not simply vaginal 'laxity'. So, unless you actually have been diagnosed with real prolapse, I would not worry. Enjoy your life and the activities you enjoy.

The key to not injuring the pelvic floor is to minimize bearing down. If you have a strong core and are isolating the targeted muscles properly, you should not adversely affect the pelvic floor. If you have not already seen a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist (PFPT), I strongly recommend this. A skilled PFPT can make sure that you are doing these exercises properly.

Hello.I read that you had vaginal rejuvenation and rectocele repair before. These procedures will help solve problems such as loosening, sagging and stretching of the vaginal walls that occur over time. However, constant heavy lifting will increase the pressure inside the vagina (especially on the front wall) and cause the opposite effect, that is, it will have the effect of pushing the tissues down again. This will not happen with a few heavy lifts, but if you do it continuously, it will weaken the effects of the procedures. We do not recommend heavy lifting at this point. In order to maintain and even strengthen the existing situation, we would like you to do vaginal contraction and relaxation exercises, which we call kegel exercises, to strengthen the muscles in the suture line and thus reduce the possibility of loosening over time.