Pelvic Floor Exercise Puns

Edit: For example…

Find the muscles that you’d use to stop the flow of urine. While sitting, laying, or standing, hold the muscles tight, trying to only engage those specific ones and no surrounding muscles. Hold for five seconds, release for three seconds, hold for five seconds… and so on.

It can be a little difficult at first to isolate those muscles but at this point I can find them even while walking.

I am a male and I’ve done three sets of ten per day for the last couple months and the results were surprising.

Edit 2: Because you all asked.

Personally, it made my orgasms much more intense and pleasurable. I’ve noticed my sex drive increase, minimally, but definitely noticeable. I feel like in the moment, everything is harder and stays harder.

Never really had trouble with controlling the timing of my orgasm thanks to my meds, but it definitely seems like it’s given me even more control.

These are just my benefits I’ve noticed as a male. I’ve heard there are more and also a whole range of positive effects for women.

If someone it's suffering from pelvic floor hypertonia for example?

I plan to start PT to help with this soon, but I have to ask - women who have had kids, how do you exercise without peeing yourself?! I have had 4 kids and can't jog to the mailbox without needing to change my pants 😭 I would like to start a workout regimen at home to help with my mental health, but I just cant figure out the logistics. Thank you!

I m in the process of healing for ureaplasma u. 1,5 months post treatment I started having urethral ( mainly ) urgency and frequency. Every time I start pelvic floor exercises at home that linary had told me urgency decreases one day later until it becomes almost normal . Whenever I stop it’s coming back .how long, after someone being completely without pelvic floor symptoms ,should stop the physiotherapy /exercises ?

I've been diagnosed with IC and my urogyn thinks that I have pelvic floor dysfunction. I've set up an appointment with a physical therapist for pelvic floor therapy, but my appointment isn't for another month and a half and I'm in pain now. I do have urinary pain, but I also have lower back and hip pain that's making it hard to walk and bend over. Those pains seems to be all related to my IC because they all flare together. Are there safe exercises (pelvic floor or otherwise) that I could do now to help reduce that pain until I see the PT? Thanks :)

I am a 40-year-old woman.
I had IC symptoms develop over the spring allergy season in 2016, then they went away.
I now have IC after a bladder infection. My urinalysis came back clear but my symptoms remain in a milder form - bladder and urethra discomfort only at night both around ovulation and PMS.
Like many people on this board, I get relief from drinking a diluted baking soda solution.
My plan is to start eliminating the most acidic foods from my diet (starting with black tea) and trying some pelvic floor therapy.
What I don't understand is:
Is IC due to both muscular (tense pelvic floor) and biochemical (sensitivity to acid /histamine) reasons?
Willing to try anything at this point.
Appreciate any insights. Thank you

My PT said it may be a couple months before my nerve becomes loose enough for PT exercises and I should only stretch right now, but stretching and breath work alone isn't calming down my nerve fast enough. How can I relax and loosen the pelvic floor while also giving the pudendal nerve proper rest and nutrition to heal once it becomes less tight?

Did anyone not do pelvic floor exercises and still find they didn’t run into any pelvic floor issues? For those who did, did you find they worked well? Can this be done on your own or is a pelvic floor physical therapist needed? I never even knew that was a thing until my friend who was pregnant last year was going to one.

From what most people on here have told me, pelvic floor tightness needs to be addressed before pelvic floor weakness, and its better to do stretching for several months and then move on to kegels once its no longer too tight. But how about hip and glute stability exercises? Should I also wait several months before doing them? Or are they less harsh on the nerve? For me, both kegels and hip exercises inflame the nerve, but kegels inflame it about 4 times more, whereas hip stability exercises just cause a mild ache and spasms that don't last long, unlike kegels, which can cause pain even the next day. Is mild perineum pain from exercise ok as long as it helps stabilize the perineum in the long term?

When i do these exercises my penis gets properly soft, just how a soft penis should be but its also as if its dead just lifeless. Any Idea?

This is my 2nd pregnancy and I am thinking back to my first pregnancy, towards the end, I had *A LOT* of pressure on my pubic bones and at the very end, even pressure on my perineum. I assume it's bc baby was engaged and low but maybe bc weak pelvic floor too?

Post partum I had some scar tissue from 1st-2nd degree tear, but for the most part I've felt OK. Sex is fine, no issues with accidentially peeing myself or problems working out so I think everything healed just fine.

Because everything in my 2nd pregnancy has been tougher, happening earlier, and baby is measuring bigger... I wonder if I shouldn't be concerned that this will happen sooner this time around. I have a 2 year old, so being laid up on the couch bc it feels like my pubic bones are rubbing together is really not an option.

Anyone do pelvic floor therapy or prenatal yoga that includes some pelvic floor exercises? Did it help you at the end of pregnancy? Or even post partum recovery?

I live on an island and I cannot have pelvic floor physiotherapy there because there aren't any specialists. I have found this channel which is a good resource for some exercises. If there is anything else you can share that could help or you have any notes maybe it would be a valuable help for everyone . Thank you

https://youtube.com/c/femfusionfitness

Just started PT. My PT identified my pelvic floor as being both weak and tense/tight. She was sayign that tense muscles are weak muscles and prescribed kegel exercises to do as homework.

My understanding is that kegel exercises could further tighten and worsen my pelvic floor? I did the exercsies and my pelvis feels just terrible today. THoughts? Am I off base here? My own research tells me I need to relax/lengthen pelvic floor first

I can't seem to get any information on this that I can understand. I didn't take any kind of anatomy in high school.

I hear alot on facebook about kegel exercises, mostly in the form of memes, but what the hell are they?

A quick google says something about pelvic floor exercises but I have no idea what that is. Googling THAT results in a bunch of words I don't understand and frankly I'm not willing to dive down that rabbit hole.

So I've come here because reddit has never let me down. There's always someone here that's able to answer questions in a way I can understand.

Soo... what's a pelvic floor? What are kegel exercises? Is that basically just flexing my anus like I'm trying to hold in a turd?

It’s my tiny fight for women’s health, and therefore women in general. Plus it stops me peeing when I sneeze and it’s something the patriarchy can never take away from me.

I just had my 6 week PP appointment and my Dr suggested finding some pelvic floor exercises on YouTube. I’m not having issues, but I inquired about it because sex was painful for a long after my first and I’m trying to be proactive this time. Basically she said videos at home for now and if I want, or need, in a few months I can go to a PT. She said she doesn’t like to send new moms right away if not totally necessary since we already have so much going on. So anyone have recommendations for videos or exercises? I feel totally out of my element other than kegels.

My PT said it may be a couple months before my nerve becomes loose enough for PT exercises and I should only stretch right now, but stretching and breath work alone isn't calming down my nerve fast enough.