Exercises for strengthening the Pelvis

[Ilkinho]

Hi guys,

I suggest in this post we gather a list of exercises for strengthening the pelvic floor muscles.

Please any of you share the exercise with description and images (and possibly your experience with it).

Also is there a risk of overstreching or doing harm to these muscles by excessive exercise? What do you think?

Thanks to all.

[webslave]

Please search the forum for "kegels". Exercising deep pelvic muscles that are already hypertonic is usually counterproductive.

[Ilkinho]

Thanks for the reply. About yoga exercises - I'm not sure which of them are aimed at strengthening and which at relaxing the muscles. Is there a post in this forum discussing this?

[tweezerr]

Not to be a dick, but you obviously haven't done any homework on this condition because if you have you would know that exercising the pelvic muscles is strongly advised against for men with CPPS. Stretching is definitely recommended though and there are some really good posts on this forum and in "A Headache in the Pelvis"

The best 2 sources for learning about this condition:
1. Get the book "A Headache in the Pelvis" and
2. use the search function at the top of this page, there's GOBS of excellent posts on this forum discussing just about everything you can think of over and over again.

[Ilkinho]

Hi tweezerr,

Thanks for the post I don't find it offending. Do you personally do any internal/external PT to help your condition? Does it help you?

[tweezerr]

I do internal stretches (stretching out the anal sphincter)
I also do external stretches, ie yoga type stretching. And then I do ab massaging and ab TP work with a Theracane.

I do not do any internal TP therapy yet. The only reason I haven't yet is I can't find any TP's and I believe the best and really only way to do internal and even good external TP therapy is by working with a PT that can either do it for you or even better show you how to do it. And the Wise clinic is the best at that. I am planning on attending in the next month or so myself to learn internal and external TP therapy.

Is what I'm doing helping? I would say it definitely is helping, not sure how much because I am doing a lot of other stuff at the same time and I've been improving.

[neue01]

Yeah, I would stay very far away from kegels right now. Really, it's excessive Kegel type of clenching that got most of us into this condition. Strengthening the pelvic floor is only generally advised toward the end of therapy, years later, once general releasing has relaxed the pelvic muscles considerably.