You may be training every muscle in your body except the one that directly affects your erections.
Many men blame low testosterone or poor blood flow when the real problem could be hidden deep in the pelvic floor. In this episode, discover why Kegels for men are often done incorrectly and how weak pelvic floor muscles can affect erection quality, firmness, and sexual performance. Also, learn the simple daily routine that may help you stay harder longer naturally.
Tune in now to learn the overlooked exercise that could completely change your sexual health.
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If you can get an erection, but you can't keep it, or you're
Speaker:leaking firmness mid sex, there's a good chance it's not
Speaker:low testosterone, or it's all in your head. It might be weak
Speaker:pelvic floor muscles, the exact muscles that trap blood in the
Speaker:penis and help you stay hard. In this video, I'll show you the
Speaker:two key muscles why most men do Kegels wrong, and the simple
Speaker:routine, three seconds, 10 reps, three sets, twice a day, that
Speaker:can start changing erection quality faster than you think.
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Speaker:"I want to increase my strength and hardness. I know exercises
Speaker:like Kegel exist, but don't know how to perform them. Please,
Speaker:suggest exercise, how to do and how many times a day." Well, it
Speaker:depends on what you mean by strength and hardness. Hardness,
Speaker:I assume the rigidity of your erection. I don't know what
Speaker:strength mean, because you can interpret in many ways, and it's
Speaker:kind of little ambiguous. So hardness is the rigidity, I
Speaker:assume, and Kegel does help, but most men do it wrong.
Speaker:If you have ED, most likely you have weak pelvic muscles. Pelvic
Speaker:muscles, the little muscles that are between your scrotum and
Speaker:your rectum. They're little muscles that wrap around the
Speaker:base of the penis, and they keep the blood in the penis, and they
Speaker:actually contribute to the rigidity of your penis. But they
Speaker:also do several things. They are the one that contracts when you
Speaker:have orgasm, and they also are the muscles that contract to
Speaker:expel semen when you ejaculate. They have multiple functions.
Speaker:And they're also the muscles that start your urine stream. So
Speaker:those are the muscles that start your urine and also stop your
Speaker:urine. They're small, but they're mighty muscles. And I
Speaker:love to do Kegel. Most men do it wrong because you don't relax.
Speaker:Most men, their pelvic muscles are very, very weak. Most men do
Speaker:it wrong.
Speaker:Okay, so if you see on the screen here, so your pelvic
Speaker:muscles, they are the bulbospongiosus muscles, and you
Speaker:can see it on the screen, bulbospongiosus, and they are
Speaker:also the ischiocavernosus muscle. All right, the
Speaker:bulbospongiosus is the one that wrap around the base of the
Speaker:penis, and that little muscle that comes on the side of the
Speaker:penis there are the ischiocavernosus muscle. Those
Speaker:are the pelvic muscle that are responsible to help keep the
Speaker:blood in the penis. It acts like a tourniquet, act like a rubber
Speaker:band that keep the blood in them, but they're also
Speaker:responsible, like I said earlier, starting and stopping
Speaker:your urine stream, which they are the one that contracts when
Speaker:you have orgasm, and they're the one that expel out the semen.
Speaker:Okay? They're small, but they're mighty, right? Most men with ED,
Speaker:those muscles are weak. That means that they contract, but
Speaker:they don't contract very strong. So they just like, like to do a
Speaker:little bit of like this. That's why you lose it after you have
Speaker:an erection, or you lose it during penetration. So those
Speaker:muscles are become weak. And Kegel is the type of exercise
Speaker:that you do. But the pelvic muscles are these two muscles.
Speaker:The Kegel is the exercise that you do, where you contract this
Speaker:muscle. So these two muscles, like I said, start and stop your
Speaker:urine stream, right? So if they start, stop your urine stream,
Speaker:what you do is like when you urinate, stop your urine
Speaker:streams. You can have a sense of what the muscles feel like. So
Speaker:that way you can have some feedback when these muscles
Speaker:contract, what it feels like to start and stop your urine
Speaker:stream. But most men do it wrong because you like tense up your
Speaker:leg muscles, like the inner thigh muscle, you tense up your
Speaker:buttock muscles, or you tense up your ab muscle. So you do it
Speaker:wrong if you're doing that. To do it right, to do a correct
Speaker:Kegel, you have to relax everything and just contract the
Speaker:ischiocavernosus and the bulbospongiosus muscle alone.
Speaker:And how you do that is just a little contraction. You can put
Speaker:your hand, bring your hand and put it underneath your scrotum,
Speaker:and you can feel the contraction. So you just
Speaker:contract those muscles. You can feel the contraction underneath
Speaker:your hand. And it feels like a muscle contract. Make sure you
Speaker:relax your buttocks and your inner thigh. So what you do is
Speaker:you do it lightly, just a contraction. And try to hold it
Speaker:for three seconds and then slowly let it go. But most of
Speaker:you will not be able to hold it for three seconds because you're
Speaker:weak. You'll be able to hold it for one second and then you
Speaker:relax. Okay? So you want to contract those muscles, hold it
Speaker:for three seconds, and then relax, and then contract again.
Speaker:Hold it for three seconds, relax. So you want to do 10
Speaker:repetition, three sets. Okay, twice a day. You want to start
Speaker:out first with lying in the bed or lying on the sofa with your
Speaker:knees up, with your knees bent. Try to do that first, and then
Speaker:you can work up to sitting. If you do that well, you can work
Speaker:up to sitting, and you can work up to standing.
Speaker:So these muscles get weak because they are the one that
Speaker:hold up your intestine. Then you can see it on here, in this
Speaker:picture, it acts like a sling. So those muscles, they attach
Speaker:from the pubic bone all the way to your tailbone, like that
Speaker:picture. So it acts like a sling. So over time, because
Speaker:when you're standing up, gravity pulls on it, right? So over
Speaker:time, it sags and become weaker because your intestine, it holds
Speaker:up your intestine. And you can see this picture here. So this
Speaker:is actually a woman, so you can see the uterus. Your men don't
Speaker:have a uterus, but it holds up your intestine. Okay? So those
Speaker:are the pelvic muscles. So these are the pelvic muscle for men
Speaker:right here. And the pelvic muscle is balanced by the
Speaker:abdominal muscle and balanced by the diaphragm. So oftentimes,
Speaker:when you do Kegel, when you contract Kegel, you want to also
Speaker:relax, like exhale. It's a little bit more advanced. That's
Speaker:why I don't talk about it. But if you really want to do it
Speaker:correctly, you contract during exhale. But the abdominal
Speaker:muscle, the pelvic muscle and the diaphragm muscle and the
Speaker:back muscle, which is called the multifidus muscle, they all work
Speaker:together in maintaining like a box system for your whole
Speaker:abdominal cavity. That's why I showed that picture.
Speaker:You can do it manually yourself, or you can just use this
Speaker:machine. It's a kegel stimulator machine that we have that you
Speaker:put the pads, you put these like hydrogel pads on the pelvic
Speaker:muscle, and then you hook it up to this machine here, which is
Speaker:the Kegel machine, and it contracts the muscle for you
Speaker:within 20 minutes, and it does thousands of contractions. So
Speaker:you can do it manually, or you can do it with this machine.
Speaker:Oftentimes, I just give my patient these machines, or they
Speaker:can use it because you oftentimes do it wrong or you
Speaker:don't have time to do it. But if you use this machine, you want
Speaker:to do it every day, or at least five times a week, for six
Speaker:weeks, take a month break and get back to it again. Okay? So
Speaker:you can do it manually. You can just do it 10 repetition, three
Speaker:sets a day, three sets at one time, and do it twice a day. So
Speaker:essentially, you know, twice a day, so you end up with 60
Speaker:contraction in a day. Okay, this is the most neglected muscle in
Speaker:a man's body, and you have to know how important that. There's
Speaker:four functions, right? It starts and stop your urine stream, it
Speaker:help maintain your erection, orgasm, ejaculation. But yet,
Speaker:when's the last time you exercise it?
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Speaker:So here's the takeaway. Erections aren't just blood
Speaker:flow, they're also muscle control. If those pelvic muscles
Speaker:are weak, your erection can drain, even if your circulation
Speaker:is decent. Do the routine exactly as shown, three second
Speaker:holds, 10 reps, three sets, twice daily, and focus on
Speaker:contracting the pelvic floor without tightening your glutes,
Speaker:abs or thighs. If you want, comment Kegels, and I'll make a
Speaker:follow up on the most common mistakes and how to tell you're
Speaker:hitting the right muscle. And subscribe for more root cause ED
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