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Doing the Kegel / Kegel questions / Re: BC or bulbocavernosus muscle in males
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on: March 19, 2007, 09:42:48 pm
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Started by Joseph | Last post by ld
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Dear Joseph
You are on the right track with realizing that you are recruiting extra muscles when doing your pelvic floor exercises, and that what you need to do is learn to isolate. This is quite natural when learning a new physical skill, we tend to contract everything at first and then finetune. I suggest you begin by aiming for a much smaller contraction. One way you can feel your pelvic floor muscles working is to deliberately stop your flow of urine. I’m sure you can do that gently without using your abdominals or hip muscles. Only try this once or twice a day, and see how gently you can squeeze the muscles and still stop the flow. The bulbocavernosis muscle is also the muscle you use to squirt out a strong stream of urine. Another useful approach is to lie down comfortably on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor, or bed. Gently place your fingertips on the perineum, the little area between your scrotum and your anus. Contract your pelvic floor muscles and you should feel movement here. If you find your legs moving or belly tightening, then simply relax, breathe deeply and try a really light contraction in this area, more of a short gentle pulsing on and off than a strong sustained contraction. Think featherweight! You should be able to breathe easily and will probably find it easiest to contract on the out breath at first. Once you have this mastered you can try a longer contraction and see if you can maintain relaxation in the other muscles. Then try the exercises sitting comfortably and only when you have mastered that should you progress to doing them in standing and then walking. Good luck and have fun!
Contracting muscles in this part of your body generates a lot of energy. This will explain your ‘twitchiness’. If you relax fully, your body and your breathing after 8 or so contractions, and feel the warm energy you have activated, then allow it to gently spread to other parts of your body, it shouldn’t build up to the point where you get twitchy. With any muscle work the full relaxation is just as important as the contraction, otherwise you will of course retain tension. On this topic, the bulbocavernosis contracts repeatedly during ejaculation. You may want to deliberately learn to relax it as that can sometimes delay ejaculation, if that is what you want to do.
The muscles of the pelvic floors of men and women are the same, they just surround different structures, for example the bulbocavernosis which assists in erection of the penis in a man assists in erection of the clitoris in a woman. Essentially the way of learning to control these muscles is similar for men and women.
I hope this information is very useful.
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Doing the Kegel / Kegel questions / BC or bulbocavernosus muscle in males
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on: March 19, 2007, 09:36:25 pm
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Started by Joseph | Last post by Joseph
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I've been doing kegels for a while now and am starting to see veins on my penis , and I also read it increased girth. I'm gonna now make it a regular practice, and your site seems to be the most thorough collection of a site on kegels, not just passing it over in brief over some male health website.
I do have some trouble though, every time I do kegels my lower abdominal muscles contract and my legs feel like if I were going to sit under a desk at my school (I'm 15) I'd knock the desk right off the floor with my knees. I tried to do it while walking and noticed that my walking turned into fast walking, me and my brother (18) who I told about kegels make jokes about it, but I don't think that's the way their supposed to be done. Is there any way to hone in on the *BC muscle , and stop this abdominal tightening and other muscle tightening. I also feel twitchy.
* see http://penis-enlargement-manual.thundersplace.org/locating-the-bc.html, if males feel under the testicles (maybe through their testicles) they can feel a muscle contract. This is not to say that the PC muscle doesn't play a part in male kegels, but not as much as BC or bulbocavernosus muscle. For women this site, I think, says that they contract the PC muscle, and Dr. Kegel the gynecologist must have only studied the effects of kegels on women, not men, since he was the creator of the exercise. I don't see the distinction on other sites, and I don't see it on this either, maybe it'll get spread around.
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Doing the Kegel / Do the Kegel - General Discussion / Do the Kegel features on medical podcast
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on: September 22, 2006, 10:42:45 pm
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Started by ld | Last post by ld
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Scottish doctor and science researcher Debbie Bruce (aka Dr Pod) presents a regular medical podcast featuring the latest developments and research in the world of healthresearch. Debbie loves Do the Kegel and the whole concept of encouraging women to do their pelvic floor exercises and has featured the song in her latest program. You can download the podcast or hear it online at http://www.drpod.co.uk/. Do the Kegel features on Series 2 Epsiode 1.
Check it out!
 LD
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Doing the Kegel / Feedback about the song "Do the Kegel' / Very useful song
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on: September 10, 2006, 03:53:25 am
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Started by Francis | Last post by Francis
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I enjoyed the song very much and think that you have a fabulous voice and a wicked sense of humor. I can see this song being used by so many groups world wide. Pre and post Natal groups, Yoga and Menopause, Hospitals and private groups. The only criticism would be that as a song to listen to it felt a wee bit too long but apart from that I love it.
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Doing the Kegel / Do the Kegel - General Discussion / UK Continence Awareness Week
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on: August 26, 2006, 05:13:58 pm
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Started by Rita | Last post by Rita
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Where Australia leads, can the UK be far behind? UK Continence Awareness Week is 11 to 17 September. It's organised by The Continence Foundation. In their literature I think they concentrate on the problems of incontinence and its treatment too much, rather than on ways to prevent incontinence in the first place. The song 'Do the Kegel' restores the balance by demonstrating how easily this can be done. Congratulations Australia! I look forward to the day when everyone in the UK is squeezing along.
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