Exercise for the Elderly

A Guide To Pelvic Floor Exercises

Pelvic floor exercises were first used as a treatment for patients suffering from stress incontinence; today that is still the case. However, clinical research has also identified an added benefit of these exercises. Having well toned pelvic floor muscles can dramatically improve your sex life.

Tightening up the pelvic floor muscles improves the vaginal muscle control and gives greater sensation to both you and your partner. Any exercise will help to develop muscle and improve blood flow; and when you do that in the pelvic floor muscles the results can be dramatic, sensations can be increased, your sex drive can improve & orgasms can be better & more frequent. Men can also use these pelvic floor exercises as part of a program to obtain and maintain greater control over ejaculations.

When you start doing pelvic floor exercises, it is important that you are exercising the right muscles, follow these steps to check:

 

When you need to pass urine sit on the toilet with your legs apart. See if you can start and then stop the flow of urine without moving your legs. If you can stop the flow of urine you are tightening the correct muscle. If you can start the stream of urine you are relaxing the correct muscle.

 

You may also like to try holding in a fart. This will also help identify the muscles to be used.

 

In men if you are using the correct muscles you will see your testicles move upwards slightly when you tighten and they will move downwards slightly when you relax.

 

Once you know which muscles to work on, you can tighten & relax them virtually anywhere, on the bus, at work, sitting on the sofa watching telly. The movement is so slight that no one will notice what you are doing.

 

Good luck & happy exercising!

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