THERE is a high energy around Kathi Janssens and it’s infectious. The former world class gymnast has turned her hand to fitness and yoga, specialising in women’s health. Her newly-relaunched Discreetly Fit, teaches the unique pelvic floor strengthening technique she learnt during one of her travels back to her native Hungary.
“The technique is different from how women usually try to strengthen their pelvic floor muscles,” Mrs Jenssens, 43, of Quakers Hill, said. “Many women suffer from pelvic floor weakness but it is preventable and in most cases reversible. “The exercises can be practiced in just 10 minutes a day at home.”
The mother of one sprang into local and state prominence last year when she began the Quakers Hill Anti Mobile Tower Action Group, to protest against the planned building of a base tower by Telstra in the area. Mrs Janssens, was, however, ranked internationally in the seventies and eighties as a gymnast and was set for the 1980 Moscow Olympics before being ruled out due to an ankle injury. Her other skills include health educator, exercise therapist, international presenter and sports and fitness trainer. Mrs Janssens, who conducts her classes at various venues in NSW, will hold a free pelvic floor workshop at Hills Yoga, Castle Hill, on Saturday, February 4, at 4 pm.