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How To Do Kegels For ED (The 3-Second Rule)
Episode 37915th May 2026 • Sexual Health For Men • Dr. Anne Truong
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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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Key Takeaways

  • Weak pelvic floor muscles can affect erections.
  • Kegels help improve erection firmness naturally.
  • Most men perform Kegels incorrectly.
  • Proper Kegels avoid tightening abs and glutes.
  • Pelvic floor muscles help trap blood in the penis.
  • Consistent Kegels may improve sexual performance.
  • Kegels can support stronger orgasms and ejaculation.
  • The recommended routine is simple and quick.
  • Pelvic floor strength supports bladder control too.
  • Daily Kegels may help you stay hard longer.

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If you can get an erection, but you can't keep it, or you're

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leaking firmness mid sex, there's a good chance it's not

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low testosterone, or it's all in your head. It might be weak

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pelvic floor muscles, the exact muscles that trap blood in the

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penis and help you stay hard. In this video, I'll show you the

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two key muscles why most men do Kegels wrong, and the simple

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routine, three seconds, 10 reps, three sets, twice a day, that

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can start changing erection quality faster than you think.

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This podcast is for you, the Modern Man. I'm Dr Anne Truong,

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your host. I'm an intimate health medical doctor and best

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selling author of the book, Erectile Dysfunction Fix. I'll

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do a deep dive into sexual health and performance and how

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it affects men of all ages and backgrounds. So let's get

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started, and be sure to visit my website at

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sexualhealthformenpodcast.com for more information and

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resources from the show. See you on the inside.

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"I want to increase my strength and hardness. I know exercises

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like Kegel exist, but don't know how to perform them. Please,

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suggest exercise, how to do and how many times a day." Well, it

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depends on what you mean by strength and hardness. Hardness,

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I assume the rigidity of your erection. I don't know what

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strength mean, because you can interpret in many ways, and it's

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kind of little ambiguous. So hardness is the rigidity, I

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assume, and Kegel does help, but most men do it wrong.

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If you have ED, most likely you have weak pelvic muscles. Pelvic

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muscles, the little muscles that are between your scrotum and

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your rectum. They're little muscles that wrap around the

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base of the penis, and they keep the blood in the penis, and they

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actually contribute to the rigidity of your penis. But they

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also do several things. They are the one that contracts when you

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have orgasm, and they also are the muscles that contract to

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expel semen when you ejaculate. They have multiple functions.

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And they're also the muscles that start your urine stream. So

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those are the muscles that start your urine and also stop your

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urine. They're small, but they're mighty muscles. And I

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love to do Kegel. Most men do it wrong because you don't relax.

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Most men, their pelvic muscles are very, very weak. Most men do

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it wrong.

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Okay, so if you see on the screen here, so your pelvic

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muscles, they are the bulbospongiosus muscles, and you

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can see it on the screen, bulbospongiosus, and they are

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also the ischiocavernosus muscle. All right, the

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bulbospongiosus is the one that wrap around the base of the

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penis, and that little muscle that comes on the side of the

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penis there are the ischiocavernosus muscle. Those

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are the pelvic muscle that are responsible to help keep the

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blood in the penis. It acts like a tourniquet, act like a rubber

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band that keep the blood in them, but they're also

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responsible, like I said earlier, starting and stopping

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your urine stream, which they are the one that contracts when

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you have orgasm, and they're the one that expel out the semen.

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Okay? They're small, but they're mighty, right? Most men with ED,

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those muscles are weak. That means that they contract, but

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they don't contract very strong. So they just like, like to do a

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little bit of like this. That's why you lose it after you have

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an erection, or you lose it during penetration. So those

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muscles are become weak. And Kegel is the type of exercise

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that you do. But the pelvic muscles are these two muscles.

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The Kegel is the exercise that you do, where you contract this

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muscle. So these two muscles, like I said, start and stop your

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urine stream, right? So if they start, stop your urine stream,

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what you do is like when you urinate, stop your urine

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streams. You can have a sense of what the muscles feel like. So

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that way you can have some feedback when these muscles

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contract, what it feels like to start and stop your urine

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stream. But most men do it wrong because you like tense up your

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leg muscles, like the inner thigh muscle, you tense up your

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buttock muscles, or you tense up your ab muscle. So you do it

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wrong if you're doing that. To do it right, to do a correct

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Kegel, you have to relax everything and just contract the

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ischiocavernosus and the bulbospongiosus muscle alone.

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And how you do that is just a little contraction. You can put

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your hand, bring your hand and put it underneath your scrotum,

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and you can feel the contraction. So you just

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contract those muscles. You can feel the contraction underneath

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your hand. And it feels like a muscle contract. Make sure you

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relax your buttocks and your inner thigh. So what you do is

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you do it lightly, just a contraction. And try to hold it

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for three seconds and then slowly let it go. But most of

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you will not be able to hold it for three seconds because you're

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weak. You'll be able to hold it for one second and then you

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relax. Okay? So you want to contract those muscles, hold it

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for three seconds, and then relax, and then contract again.

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Hold it for three seconds, relax. So you want to do 10

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repetition, three sets. Okay, twice a day. You want to start

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out first with lying in the bed or lying on the sofa with your

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knees up, with your knees bent. Try to do that first, and then

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you can work up to sitting. If you do that well, you can work

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up to sitting, and you can work up to standing.

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So these muscles get weak because they are the one that

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hold up your intestine. Then you can see it on here, in this

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picture, it acts like a sling. So those muscles, they attach

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from the pubic bone all the way to your tailbone, like that

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picture. So it acts like a sling. So over time, because

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when you're standing up, gravity pulls on it, right? So over

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time, it sags and become weaker because your intestine, it holds

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up your intestine. And you can see this picture here. So this

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is actually a woman, so you can see the uterus. Your men don't

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have a uterus, but it holds up your intestine. Okay? So those

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are the pelvic muscles. So these are the pelvic muscle for men

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right here. And the pelvic muscle is balanced by the

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abdominal muscle and balanced by the diaphragm. So oftentimes,

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when you do Kegel, when you contract Kegel, you want to also

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relax, like exhale. It's a little bit more advanced. That's

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why I don't talk about it. But if you really want to do it

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correctly, you contract during exhale. But the abdominal

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muscle, the pelvic muscle and the diaphragm muscle and the

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back muscle, which is called the multifidus muscle, they all work

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together in maintaining like a box system for your whole

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abdominal cavity. That's why I showed that picture.

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You can do it manually yourself, or you can just use this

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machine. It's a kegel stimulator machine that we have that you

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put the pads, you put these like hydrogel pads on the pelvic

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muscle, and then you hook it up to this machine here, which is

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the Kegel machine, and it contracts the muscle for you

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within 20 minutes, and it does thousands of contractions. So

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you can do it manually, or you can do it with this machine.

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Oftentimes, I just give my patient these machines, or they

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can use it because you oftentimes do it wrong or you

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don't have time to do it. But if you use this machine, you want

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to do it every day, or at least five times a week, for six

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weeks, take a month break and get back to it again. Okay? So

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you can do it manually. You can just do it 10 repetition, three

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sets a day, three sets at one time, and do it twice a day. So

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essentially, you know, twice a day, so you end up with 60

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contraction in a day. Okay, this is the most neglected muscle in

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a man's body, and you have to know how important that. There's

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four functions, right? It starts and stop your urine stream, it

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help maintain your erection, orgasm, ejaculation. But yet,

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when's the last time you exercise it?

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So here's the takeaway. Erections aren't just blood

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flow, they're also muscle control. If those pelvic muscles

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are weak, your erection can drain, even if your circulation

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is decent. Do the routine exactly as shown, three second

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holds, 10 reps, three sets, twice daily, and focus on

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contracting the pelvic floor without tightening your glutes,

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abs or thighs. If you want, comment Kegels, and I'll make a

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follow up on the most common mistakes and how to tell you're

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hitting the right muscle. And subscribe for more root cause ED

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