Bicycling and Pelvic Pain

[neis]

Each time I feel my symptoms have calmed down enough to try some cycling I have to learn my lesson over again that it's the single biggest flarer of my symptoms. Yesterday I did 10 minutes of warm-up at the gym on the stationary bike, followed by 2 miles of running on the treadmill, and my evening was one dealing with perineal pain and nerve impulses through my penis. Has anything been learned about this trigger in cyclists, and are there any specific exercises/massage points that help with this?

[webslave]

Both cycling and leg presses are known to use some rarely-used pelvic muscles, and are known flarers of the condition.

[superuse]

You might want to exclude the bike for the forseeable future along with running. That might beat specific (for cycling) exercises/massage points whatever those may be.

Weightlifting and cycling in general are terrible for developing and aggravating CPPS. Leg presses are particularly terrible (especially of the old design above or universal). Taking the back muscles out of the equation like in the squat lets one use unnaturally heavy weights. compression of the pelvis/lowback against the seat at 90 degrees to the leg with no place to go is very unnatural and causes many back problems. Many also warn against the "lockout".

The more modern Hammer equipment is a little better in this regard ergonomically, but still the problems remain. The squat is more natural, however its all academic with CPPS.


--jjf

Each time I feel my symptoms have calmed down enough to try some cycling I have to learn my lesson over again that it's learned about this trigger in cyclists, and are there any specific exercises/massage points that help with this?