FITNESS - SEX LIFE & EXERCISE

Men and women can greatly improve their sex life by strengthening sexual muscles.

Sex is good!

It’s a widely accepted fact: sexual activity keeps you in good health. It helps burn calories, increase the blood flow, and produces hormones that improve your general wellbeing and make you look - and feel – happy. But on the other hand, to have a so-called proper sex life, you should be in good health…
It may sound like an endless and crazy circle, but hey! That’s how it works.

When it comes to sex, it’s a common belief that women are rather spiritual, while men are more physical. Quite true in the sense that only men have adrenalin surges in the presence of women’s pheromones. However, even if cerebral stimulation is there and arousal occurs, the body has to follow, or a sexual breakdown may happen -- before or during intercourse -- a worse case scenario especially for men whose manhood may be at stake. Age and work pressure also have severe adverse effects on your potency. So there’s no doubt that a healthy body will help you achieve a gratifying sex life.

Sexual dysfunctions

Apart from surgical operations such as FGC and hysterectomy, there are many conditions that can affect sexuality and sexual function: aging, hypertension, and diabetes to name a few. So the first step to be taken to improve your sex life is to change your lifestyle. Lose weight if necessary, follow a healthy diet, and engage in regular physical activity; limit alcohol consumption and smoking if possible…
Last but not least, exercise specific muscles that have a major incidence on sexual activity: buttocks, abdominals, perineum or PC muscles, and thighs.

Ancient oriental masters already detained the secrets of sexual exercises that were developed in a way to achieve, intensify, prolong and control the pleasure in both sexes and contribute to our growth as human beings. [Hey in those days, rich men had nothing else to do all day but care about their many concubines…] In modern days, most people have never even heard about these techniques, and few people take the time to seriously look at their sexual life from a medical and health point of view.

There are exercises that are also strongly recommended to women who just gave birth, to help them retighten their belly and pelvis. But anyone can do this workout, and if you have no much free time, you can do only one of these sets of exercises everyday, and alternate.

Strengthen your sexual muscles

1 – Lower back, buttocks and abs.
This exercise will strengthen your lower back as well as your butt and abs muscles that all are seriously solicited during intercourse.
Stand on four on the ground – Arch your back and lift your chin, then bow your back upwards while lowering your head. Do it slowly with lots of strength and repeat at least 10 times. Always contract your abs to the maximum.

2 – Abdominals.
Abdominals constitute the most important muscle group involved during sexual activity.
Lay on your back with your legs bent (bringing your feet close to your hips) – Do quick sit-ups, trying to pass your hands over your knees. Do as many as you can, then take a rest and repeat 2 or 3 times.

3 – Lower abdominals.
The lower abs are the most important muscles within the abs group because they are closer to the perineum.
Lay on your back, cross your feet with your knees bent over you (your feet close to your butt) – Place your hands on your ears and do quick sit-ups, trying to bring your elbows to your knees. Do as many as you can, then take a rest and repeat 2 or 3 times.

4 – Lower back muscles.
Working on your lower back is also important, as it works out your buttocks as well. Lay down on your tummy, and extend your hands in front of you. Then raise your hands and feet as much as you can and keep for 10 seconds. Repeat 5 to 10 times. Alternatively, if you back is too weak, you can grab your butt with both hands, and help lifting up by pulling with your arms.

5 – Pelvic muscles.
The perineum is a network of muscles usually called PC muscle (for pubococcygeus). It stretches between the legs. It is a set of muscles and ligaments that support your bladder and help close your urethra, and that can be improved with Kegel exercises.

Kegel exercises have been specifically designed to strengthen your pelvic muscles. They are named for the doctor who developed them in the 1940s.

Once you get the hang of it, you can do squeezes while writing, reading, walking, sitting, working, watching TV and so on. Don’t overdo it; the PC muscle is just like any other muscle and if you overdo, it will become sore.
Don't be surprised if the exercises stimulate erotic feelings while you are doing them. The contractions of the sexual muscles produce a growth of sexual energy. As a matter of fact you can use this as a trick to keep yourself awake, alert and smiling during a boring meeting.

6 – The complete workout.
Once you master this workout, you can contract first the PC muscle, then the anal muscle, and finally the abdominal muscles in a row, and keep the contraction on all of them before relaxing. This additionally will have a massaging effect on your inner organs.

7 – The standing workout.
Stand with your legs 50CM apart (or as your shoulders), and place your arms at 90 degrees angles on the sides.
Pull your arms forward in front of you while slightly bending your knees; at the same time, contract all your lower back, abs, thighs, butt, pelvic and anal muscles altogether. Hold the contraction two seconds, then release and do it again. Use as much power as you can, and do 2 or 3 series of 10. This exercise also works a lot on your thighs; it’s great, especially if you are keen of the “right up against the wall” kind of stuff.

Benefits of PC muscle exercises:
Sexual muscles exercising will make you get more in touch with your genitals and sexual feelings. It will improve the blood flow to these areas with some healing results -- in many cases eliminating frigidity -- and let you command voluntary orgasms. It will retighten vaginal muscles in women and help prolong erections in men. In a few weeks or months, you’ll enjoy an all-new sexual life and realize all of your fantasies!

Copyright 2006 - GZ.