How Many Kegel Exercises for Men Physiotherapy Beginners to Advanced

Timestamps Kegel Exercises for Men for Endurance and Power
0:54 Long Kegel exercises
2:24 Short Kegel exercises
3:27 How many daily Kegels in total

Long Kegel Exercises for Men Train Endurance

Long Kegel exercises train pelvic floor muscle endurance (to work longer). These long Kegels for men train the slow twitch pelvic floor muscle fibres or muscle cells.

* Beginners start with the number of Kegel exercises you can currently perform
* Aim for up to 10 second Kegel exercises
* Repeat up to 10 consecutive Kegels
* Relax your pelvic floor and rest for 10 seconds after every Kegel exercise.

Kegels for men who are beginners' start out doing the number of long kegel exercises you can perform using the correct slow Kegel exercise technique.

Short Kegel Exercises for Men Train Power and Control

Short duration fast Kegels train pelvic floor muscle power. These kegel exercises for men train the fast twitch muscle fibres for improving power and control to contract the pelvic floor muscles quickly.

* Aim to do 10 short fast 1 second Kegel exercises in a row
* Relax your pelvic floor muscles between each exercise
* There is no rest between consecutive Kegel exercises for power.

Kegels for men who are beginners’ control exercises should commence with the number of short fast kegel exercises you can perform using the correct fast Kegel exercise technique.

How Many Kegel Exercises for Men Daily

* Sets of Kegel exercises for men should be performed 3-6 times per day.
* Progress to doing 60 -120 Kegel exercises daily
* Aim to do Kegel exercises on at least 5 days of the week

When to Do and Avoid Kegel Exercises for Men

Men will benefit from Kegel exercises with cough, sneeze or heavy lifting, for example fast heavy lifting in the gym.

Avoid doing Kegel exercises during ongoing activities such as walking, jogging or habitually bracing the pelvic floor muscles because this can cause pelvic floor muscle tension (tightness) and weakness.

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[tytatoys]

You have always been very helpful. Thank you again and again.

[george]

Hi Michelle, Thank you very much for the videos! Apologies if my two questions here are rather long. I haven't found the answers to them elsewhere (I've watched several of your videos and read through your answers to many commenters). If you can only address one of my questions, please let it be the first:

1. For the longer exercises, when building up to the 10 seconds, how does one tell exactly when to stop holding, to avoid strain? In an answer to another commenter here, you said "[A tremor is] absolutely normal- this is your pelvic floor muscles trying to contract but weak - just like any other skeletal muscle group when it’s weak it can be a little shaky at first."

But then is there a point when the shakiness becomes too strained? My contraction goes through the following three stages, from A) to C), as the hold continues. Should I try to exhaust myself all the way through C) or stop earlier in this sequence:

A) Sense of a carefree lift.
B) Feeling of a vibration/tremor, in all three parts of the pelvic muscles.
C) Sense of oscillating, like the pelvic muscles are wildly falling and rising again, in a struggle to stay up.

I've never tried to power all the way through C), but maybe that's wrong and I should. Please let me know what you think.

2. I'm having difficulty keeping my abdominal muscles relaxed, for normal breathing, during the kegels. Would you recommend supplementing the kegels with abdominal exercises, like sit-ups, in order to be better prepared for the kegels? Perhaps if my abdominals were stronger, my stomach wouldn't tense up during the kegels.

[tonygrampsamerica]

Thank. You for the great info, I earned about kegels many years about over 40 and tried to be consistent now and again, now from your video and the benefits Ive seen, become very regimented. I’m a kegel pro lol

[virtualtraveler]

Thank you, MIchelle. I watched all your Kegel-related videos. So helpful!! Thanks again!!

[jettmanas]

Good info, though I have no idea how one could breathe normally & not tense the gut for holding more than a second.
I'm very thin, btw- not like the guys in the photos. Thanks for the vid.

[YolandaTsangPTYOANDVAGINIA]

Hi Michelle! Great information as always! A lot of people think they need to do 400! SEE YOU SOON! YO AND VAGINIA 🌸

[ujcqiej]

How to avoid side effects of kegel? And how long we have to do it?
Lifetime? And it is ok to do it for life time?

[hamzaali]

Kindly mention some early side effects of this excercise so we dont stop doing this by the scare of something

[xeonix]

Can ED occurred due to medication? Specifically blood pressure and cholesterol lowering medication?

How to stop the side effects?

[Luisnegro]

Excelent video, thank you, I want to ask, what are the results that I should wait for, (if perform correctly), just to be aware. Thank you again.

[mandandi]

Amazing. I was taught to do about 300 daily of the hard ones. I can do about 1000 on a good day, usually after waking up but before getting out of bed.
Then during the day I do extras if I feel like it.

[johnmorris]

U made my kegel exercise way easier. I get hard just watching u n then I can do exercise more efficiently!

[vikram]

Hello Michelle, Im practicing the kegels from a week, but when I'm trying to contract my pelvic muscle, I feel my balls are contracting too which means I see an upward movement in the sag. But After few repetitions I feel some sort of suffocation / pain in the balls. Is this the expected behaviour or else Am I doing the kegels wrong ???

[carlosbac]

I'm glad someone is talking about Kegel for men. My doc GP knows nothing about this. If you could guide me with my exercises I would be very grateful. IVe been doing them for about the last year and a half. I usually do them at the gym while walking on the treadmill. I breath normal throughout and contract only my pelvic muscles. When I started I would do 12 holds for 20 seconds each and relax for about 12 seconds. (240 seconds total ) After a while I realized I could keep the hold longer and longer up to 50 seconds each hold times 6 ( 300 seconds total ). Should I do smaller holds with more reps, keep getting better at longer holds or maybe a combo of both? Again thanks for any feedback you can give Carlos

[xfirjbt]

Thoroughly enjoy your approach and videos. I also am telling others! I had a cryo reduction/removal 6 months ago and found you about 3 months ago. One question: I cannot detect a lifting of my penis as I contract/activate my pelvic floor. Maybe I'm not contracting strongly enough? Maybe I'm doing fine regardless... THANKS, so much, for your energy & research! "JM"

[wickiezulu]

Can conditions like Diastatsis Recti and Abdominal Hernias have an impact on the ability to properly perform Long Kegels?

[jaynecobb]

I am 42 and in decent shape for my age. I sit in the car a lot for work (20-30 hours a week) but workout regularly. I can’t even hold a contraction for more than about 1 second ? Is this normal? I’ve tried kegals before but never consistently.

[IanWagner-eifr]

Michelle, too many references on website for beginners exercises . You say one thing and you watch anther beginner video and are told something different.

[nishanthstda]

Mam I have prolaps urtrues and diastasis recti. 2nd delivery was compeled before 6 years.

[nishanthstda]

Please tell me compained for prolaps utrues and diastasis recti please. I have 3 rd degree prolaps.