Kegel Exercise Helps Men and Women
This question has come up hundreds of times with clients I’ve seen in the office for biofeedback sessions. Everyone seems to think that they need to squeeze REALLY hard for their kegel exercises to do any good. BUT>>>>
When these same clients are attached to the biofeedback system so they can see the electricity coming out of the pelvic floor muscles they are always surprised. You see, the tighter a muscle squeezes the more electricity it emits which can be measured by electromyographic biofeedback (EMG).
So when these clients come in, we use an internal sensor that can measure the strength from the pelvic floor muscles but we also attach EMG electrodes to the abdominal muscles, buttock muscles and leg muscles. What these clients invariably see is that by far, the greatest amount of squeezing is coming from all the extra muscles, not the pelvic floor muscles.
The harder they squeeze, the more the buttock, leg and abdominal muscles are tightened but NOT the pelvic floor muscles. The pelvic floor muscles can only squeeze as hard as they have strength for. Efforts to make them sqeeze harder by tightening everything up just doesn’t work.
Instead, to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, you want to ISOLATE the pelvic floor muscle from the others. At first, it won’t seem like you’re doing much but if you keep with it, they will get stronger and stronger.
One 60 year old gal I worked with said that after about a year of doing the prescribed kegel exercise routines she was having the strongest orgasms she’d ever had in her entire life.
You can get a good Kegel exercise program here: Twitch-and-Shout-Kegel-Exercises-for-Men-and-Women
