It's not just women who need to have strong pelvic muscles. Men also can benefit from exercising their pelvic muscles - it can make orgasm more pleasurable and assist with problems like premature ejaculation.
There are many reasons why our pelvic muscles lose tone and need extra strengthening. There may be problems with lax muscles from stretching during childbearing; stress incontinence from prolapse of pelvic organs or prostate problems in men.
Regular contraction of the pelvic muscles can improve blood circulation, nerve and blood vessel supplies. This can develop tone, strength and endurance - good tools for good sex.
The vagina benefits from the tightening of pelvic muscles. A tighter vagina means more friction during sex - this can be pleasurable for both partners. It can also make having orgasms easier, help you to control the timing of your orgasm, and make having multiple orgasms easier.
Using
pelvic muscle exercisers
It is possible to strengthen pelvic
muscles by learning to contract and relax pelvic muscles without a pelvic muscle exerciser.
Some women find that having something inside the vagina helps you to feel the
muscles contracting around it. Exercisers are devices that can provide resistance
against which you can contract your pelvic muscles.
By squeezing your pelvic muscles against resistance (the exerciser), holding the contracted muscle then releasing - your pelvic muscles become firmer and tighter at rest. This improves the tone of the muscle. The more contractions you do with the exerciser, the stronger the contractions get and the longer you can contract the muscles. This is endurance.
The
Result
This pleasant contracting-releasing action can lead to some
amazing results.
It can help you to become a sensual and loving partner; and
if you don't have a sexual partner, it makes orgasms easier and better during
masturbation, as well as during intercourse.
Better blood circulation and
nerve development associated with exercise does several things: it means more
awareness and perception of genital sensations. It means increased bathing of
clitoral, vulval, vaginal and pelvic cells in oxygen and circulating sex hormones.
It also helps your immune system fight disease because it increases the genital
flow of white blood cells, which defend the body against viruses and bacteria.
Exercising
any muscle increases blood flow to that area. Increased vaginal and pelvic blood
flow may slow down hormone-dependent aging, more youthful skin, and improved genital
tone.
Increasing the tone of your vaginal muscles means that instead of
them being flabby, soft and insensitive to the touch, they are firm and have a
tension that transmits the sensation of touch much more intensely. All touch sensations
may become stronger and more exciting because there is literally more electrical
energy coming from your pelvic nerves.
Since stronger muscles don't tire as quickly, the number of vaginal muscle contractions during orgasm can be increased, which in turn increases the length of your orgasms. Thus, you can have stronger and longer orgasms.
The control that comes from vaginal muscle strengthening builds the self-confidence and enhanced pleasure that encourages extending time spent in lovemaking. Your self-confidence will carry over into other areas of your life.
Choosing
the right pelvic muscle exerciser for You
LoveLife Plus
has a range of exercisers to help you stimulate pelvic muscle development and
exercise them against resistance - the Barbell, SmartBalls, Aquaflex or the KegelPro. All
are different and have specific features which may appeal specifically to you:
SmartBalls are well designed, silicone balls with metal balls inside. When inserted into the vagina, they not only provide resistance during voluntary contraction of your pelvic muscles but the metal balls vibrate as you contract the muscles. The vibrations automatically stimulate, massage and exercise the muscles.
Some women prefer this dual action as they can be exercising their muscles (through the vibrations) whenever they move when the balls are inserted, whether or not they overtly contract the muscles.
In Germany, where SmartBalls are manufactured, the German Midwives Association recommend them for all postpartum mothers (after a period of 6 weeks).Betty Dodson's Vaginal Barbell is a 15cm stainless steel rod weighing about five hundred grams. It is strategically designed and weighted to stay in the vagina while you exercise your pelvic muscles. It provides resistance while you exercise but is also useful as a source of pleasure in its own right. Some women find that being able to move it in and out of the vagina while gripping it (contracting your pelvic muscles) is very pleasurable.
The end with the large knob is inserted as far as is comfortable leaving the remaining end out of the vagina. The strategic weighting of the Barbell and the physiology of the vagina means that it will not dislodge or fall out if you move around.
The Barbell is effective for self-pleasuring and some women incorporate an orgasm at the end of their pelvic muscle exercising. This serves as a good incentive to do the exercises !! The more you exercise, the stronger the muscle and the better the intensity of the orgasm. You can feel the results.
Men can also use the Barbell to strengthen their pelvic muscles. The Barbell is inserted into the anus and muscles contracted around the anus. Strengthened muscles can prolong pleasure, intensify orgasm and delay ejaculation.
Being stainless steel, it's easy to clean. Betty Dodson promotes it as a good item to pass down to your children and grandchildren!
The KegelPro is a device with two spring-loaded plastic arms. The arms are held together and inserted into the vagina. The arms are slightly open inside the vagina depending on how tight the vagina is and how taut the pelvic muscle is.
The KegelPro provide resistance against which to contract the pelvic muscles. The contraction of the muscles slightly closes the arms of the device. Results can be felt as the tighter the muscles, the less movement in the arms.The Aquaflex Pelvic Muscle Exerciser consists of weighted cones which can restore and maintain pelvic muscle tone. There are two cones with graduated weights including a starter which is slightly larger.
The weights (5, 10 and 20 gm) are placed into the cone - starting with the smallest - and the cone inserted into the vagina and held for 20 minutes. The pelvic muscle contracts around the cone. Once you can retain the cone in the vagina, you can increase the weights ---- and so on.
With all the exercisers, contracting pelvic muscles for about 10 -20 minutes per day will achieve the strengthening needed to improve vaginal and pelvic muscle tone and enhance lovemaking. The SmartBalls and Aquaflex may be used for longer periods for ongoing exercising and pleasure if you walk around with them inserted.
Last updated 24 July 2008