When women—runners or not—hear “pelvic floor,” their minds likely go straight to kegel exercises. And that’s no surprise, really, given the history: A doctor in the 1940s, Arnold Kegel, worked with ...

People often associate the pelvic floor—a sort of bowl of muscles and connective tissues at the base of your torso—with urinary incontinence or occasional leakage, especially for women who’ve had ...