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Kegels, Reverse Kegels, anatomy of the penis muscles, pelvic floor and some clarification,
it's not only about one muscle:
Shortened names:
PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle, BC (Bulbocavernosus) muscle and IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle
Bulbocavernosus (BC) was named "bulbospongiosus (BS)" before.
EQ (erection quality) and ED (erectile dysfunction)
Abstract:
1) Introduction
2) Functions & Usage of the different muscles
3) Locating and identifying the muscles
4) Kegels & Reverse Kegels
1) Introduction:
Normally I just wanted to write a short post as usual about that in my Newbie Q&A, but it started to become a little larger and so I thought about creating an own thread for it, as it's also very important for the most of us, especially newbies.
I have to admit that I was very confused with this topic and I didn't wanted to start something (kegels) from which I don't have any clue and people just tell us to find this secret muscle when we pee and then stop peeing and that's it.
Also when I tried to train and contract the muscle over the day, I shortly felt it and then the feeling disappeared and I didn't even know if it was still flexing or already relaxed.
On top of it lots of people throwing around shortened latin names like PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle and then there's also something called 'reverse kegels'. Well great, now you had lost me and I tried to hide from this topic at all for around 2 weeks now.
As I've digged in more and more into the PE world I found out how important this topic actually is and made the decision looking into it in order to understand all of this or at least the basics.
First things first, we're talking about muscles here and not about tissue stretching or anything else known from PE- so we can treat them like normal muscles (biceps, triceps, quads, calves,...).
Well, what I've found out in my own research so far while looking at the male anatomy - it's not only about one muscle!
I've read some stuff about the PC muscle and kegeling for getting more EQ and with it stronger erections. Also it was said you can hold your sperm back while tensing/flexing it when you're few seconds before an orgasm so you can have sex for as long as you want. On top of that it helps with incontinence.
But I haven't read anything about the BC (Bulbocavernosus) or IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle here, to which we will actually come now.
As I was checking out the anatomy of the penis I found this:
BC muscle: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/bulbospongiosus-muscle
IC muscle: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/ischiocavernosus-muscle
Now we're coming to the part where the fun begins!
As I was looking at it and checking for the 2 muscles, I could see that the IC is actually much bigger inside the penis compared to the BC muscle.
IC muscle surrounds the corpora cavernosa. BC muscle surrounds the corpus spongiosum with the urethra inside it.
Now check that out:
Corpora cavernoa is about 4/5 of the penis (surrounds 4/5 of the blood) while the corpus spongiosum is only around 1/5 of the penis (surrounds 1/5 of the blood).
But as it's only surrounding around 15-20% blood of the penis, as stated above - what about the IC muscle and the other 80-85%?
As I've read more and more into it, I found out that the corpus cavernous holds around 85-90% of the erectile blood, surrounded by the IC muscle.
There are multiple more facts but I just want to sum it up, IC is the main muscle for building a good erection.
Having a look at the perineal muscles:
So now we have seen multiple muscles, the relevant muscles for us are:
1. BC (Bulbocavernosus) muscle
2. PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle
3. IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle
You have to imagine that all of the 3 muscles are connected in a sort of pelvic floor and it's very difficult to target only one of them at the same time.
But let's talk about the functions and usage of the different muscles.
2) Functions & Usage of the different muscles:
The Bulbocavernosus (BC) muscle
The BC muscle is the main muscle to use when doing kegels, not just the PC muscle. It’s located around the bulb, or base, of the penis. The two main roles of the BC muscle are:
The Pubococcygeus (PC) muscle
The PC muscle is the large muscle which stretches from the pubic bone to the tailbone. Its main roles are:
The IC muscle sits next to the BC muscle, and its roles are:
For curing an ED (erectile dysfunction) and improving the EQ (erection quality) we would need to train the IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle.
For preventing/improving premature ejaculation, and to control orgasms and hold them back, we would need to train the PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle and BC (Bulbocavernosus) muscle.
For having more pressure while 'shooting the load' (ejaculation) or doing 'pumps' while having sex (yes, girls love that), we would need to train the BC (Bulbocavernosus) muscle.
3) Locating and identifying the muscles: - update coming soon!
Finding and isolating the Bulbocavernosus (BC) muscle - coming soon...
Finding and isolating the Pubococcygeus (PC) muscle - coming soon...
Finding and isolating the Ischiocavernosus (IC) muscle - coming soon...
As I'm still learning this part I can just give you the general knowledge for finding your pelvic floors muscles (not isolated) with some own words & copy pasta ?
1. Locating the muscles with contracting them
Next time you go for a pee, start peeing and then try to stop urinating mid-flow. Congrats, that are the muscles you will train with kegels. As you've stopped peeing you just contracted the muscles listed above.
If you can’t stop urinating then it may be that the muscles just aren’t well developed at the moment. Don’t worry though – as long as you find that the flow reduces, you’re probably using the correct muscles.
When first doing this, you may find it useful to start and stop the flow of urine several times until you gain an understanding of which muscles to use.
Please note that stopping the flow of urine is something you only need to do to get an idea of which muscle to use. Don’t do it every time you go to the toilet, as this isn’t recommended by Urologists.
2. Finding the muscles manually
The second technique is to feel the pelvic floor with your fingers while lying on your back. Lie down, raise your knees and then use a couple of fingers to push gently onto your perineum – the area of skin between your testicles and anus.
Here you will have two options for testing it:
1) Go to the toilet, start peeing and put your finger(s) on that area and push onto it, now you should have manually squeezed the area and the muscle surrounding it, is your BC muscle. Attention: As soon as you release your fingers, you body will release the pee.
2) During masturbating/sex, shortly before ejaculating, put your finger(s) on that area and push onto it, now you should feel that you're not ejaculating and the area is contracting and the sperm is trapped there. But attention: If you release too early, sperm will shoot out LOL
You can also use this trick if you really want to shoot the load around the room or at your GF as your muscles aren't trained that good in the beginning for contracting them with the same force.
3. Locating the muscles with an erection
A third technique, and one which can be a useful visual check, is with an erection. If you squeeze/contract the pelvic floor muscles, you should find your erection rises slightly. And if you then relax the squeeze, it should drop down a little.
You might also find that you can feel or see your erection getting bigger or harder. This is another function of the BC muscle, so you may find this is a useful way to check you’re using that muscle.
You can also use this squeeze/contraction when having sex and you're fully inside your girl, girls will go crazy over this as your girth is expanding with the contraction.
4) Kegels & Reverse Kegels - update coming soon!
A kegel is the name of a pelvic floor exercise, named after Dr. Kegel who discovered the exercise.
A Reverse kegel is the opposite of the kegel exercise (for example like what you may know from sports: Push & Pull), but here it would be SQUEEZE & PUSH.
So for clarification, kegels & reverse kegels are only names attached to exercises training different muscles/functions of the pelvic floor area.
Kegels: (SQUEEZE) - update coming soon!
The muscles (listed above in 3)) are attached to the pelvic bone and act like a hammock, holding in your pelvic organs.
Once you have located the muscles simply tighten and relax the muscle.
Here you will have lots of different variations like when working out your muscles.
For beginners the best would be to start contracting the muscles and then relax for a few seconds, then flex it again and relax.
You could start with 30-50 reps à 3 sets. The more you start training your muscles, the easier it will become. Increase the number of reps.
As you can do 50-100 reps, now you can start working on the contraction time.
Instead of just flexing and directly relaxing, you will hold the contraction for 3 seconds each rep and then relax for a few seconds.
The longer you can contract the muscles without relaxing them, the stronger they are and the more benefits you'll have.
When being able to 'kegel' / when you'll have strong pelvic floor muscles which are contracting when you 'kegel', you can:
hold the sperm back before you would ejaculate and can start having multiple orgasms and have
Reverse Kegels: (PUSH) - update coming soon!
Reverse Kegels are the opposite of kegels, in my opinion it's called 'revese' because to locate this muscle, you will need to do the opposite than when doing a normal kegel.
Go to the toilet, start peeing and instead of stopping to pee - now you'll actually try to push out the urine flow as hard as you can.
Now you can feel the muscle(s), which is/are used for kegels.
Note: Reverse Kegels are more difficult than normal kegels.
For exercising you'll target the/those muscle(s) you're using for reverse kegels and contract them.
Reverse Kegel exercise can help to give you:
Updates coming soon:
Updates are coming soon!
Also I'll update a more detailed way how to do kegels & reverse kegels.
As soon as I've done an update I'll do a post and bump this up.
As I've already said in the text above, I still need to find exercises/movements how I can isolate certain of the 3 muscles but with kegels and reverse kegels you will be more than fine in the beginning.
Kegels and Reverse Kegels are exercises and are training some of the 3 muscles I've listed above, which ones of them and how much percentage of each - I can't say so far.
I just wanted to give some clarification and basic knowledge of the anatomy of the penis muscles, as most of us newbies are completely confused with all of it.
Also I wanted to show you that the IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle could be much more important in order to fight EQ and ED than as usual thought, the PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle.
In reason that we can find out as much as we can, feel free to post your knowledge in the thread or send me a message, maybe you're already very experienced and could tell us how to isolate the three muscles for different exercises.
My english obviously isn't the best, so if some mods want to correct some grammar mistakes, feel free to do so!
it's not only about one muscle:
Shortened names:
PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle, BC (Bulbocavernosus) muscle and IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle
Bulbocavernosus (BC) was named "bulbospongiosus (BS)" before.
EQ (erection quality) and ED (erectile dysfunction)
Abstract:
1) Introduction
2) Functions & Usage of the different muscles
3) Locating and identifying the muscles
4) Kegels & Reverse Kegels
1) Introduction:
Normally I just wanted to write a short post as usual about that in my Newbie Q&A, but it started to become a little larger and so I thought about creating an own thread for it, as it's also very important for the most of us, especially newbies.
I have to admit that I was very confused with this topic and I didn't wanted to start something (kegels) from which I don't have any clue and people just tell us to find this secret muscle when we pee and then stop peeing and that's it.
Also when I tried to train and contract the muscle over the day, I shortly felt it and then the feeling disappeared and I didn't even know if it was still flexing or already relaxed.
On top of it lots of people throwing around shortened latin names like PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle and then there's also something called 'reverse kegels'. Well great, now you had lost me and I tried to hide from this topic at all for around 2 weeks now.
As I've digged in more and more into the PE world I found out how important this topic actually is and made the decision looking into it in order to understand all of this or at least the basics.
First things first, we're talking about muscles here and not about tissue stretching or anything else known from PE- so we can treat them like normal muscles (biceps, triceps, quads, calves,...).
Well, what I've found out in my own research so far while looking at the male anatomy - it's not only about one muscle!
I've read some stuff about the PC muscle and kegeling for getting more EQ and with it stronger erections. Also it was said you can hold your sperm back while tensing/flexing it when you're few seconds before an orgasm so you can have sex for as long as you want. On top of that it helps with incontinence.
But I haven't read anything about the BC (Bulbocavernosus) or IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle here, to which we will actually come now.
As I was checking out the anatomy of the penis I found this:
BC muscle: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/bulbospongiosus-muscle
IC muscle: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/ischiocavernosus-muscle
Now we're coming to the part where the fun begins!
As I was looking at it and checking for the 2 muscles, I could see that the IC is actually much bigger inside the penis compared to the BC muscle.
IC muscle surrounds the corpora cavernosa. BC muscle surrounds the corpus spongiosum with the urethra inside it.
Now check that out:
Corpora cavernoa is about 4/5 of the penis (surrounds 4/5 of the blood) while the corpus spongiosum is only around 1/5 of the penis (surrounds 1/5 of the blood).
But as it's only surrounding around 15-20% blood of the penis, as stated above - what about the IC muscle and the other 80-85%?
As I've read more and more into it, I found out that the corpus cavernous holds around 85-90% of the erectile blood, surrounded by the IC muscle.
There are multiple more facts but I just want to sum it up, IC is the main muscle for building a good erection.
Having a look at the perineal muscles:
So now we have seen multiple muscles, the relevant muscles for us are:
1. BC (Bulbocavernosus) muscle
2. PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle
3. IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle
You have to imagine that all of the 3 muscles are connected in a sort of pelvic floor and it's very difficult to target only one of them at the same time.
But let's talk about the functions and usage of the different muscles.
2) Functions & Usage of the different muscles:
The Bulbocavernosus (BC) muscle
The BC muscle is the main muscle to use when doing kegels, not just the PC muscle. It’s located around the bulb, or base, of the penis. The two main roles of the BC muscle are:
- Squeezing semen or urine out of the urethra.
- Squeezing more blood into the end of the penis.
The Pubococcygeus (PC) muscle
The PC muscle is the large muscle which stretches from the pubic bone to the tailbone. Its main roles are:
- Also plays a role in urination and bowel movements.
- Forms a large part of the pelvic floor, supporting lower organs.
- Contracts during orgasm.
The IC muscle sits next to the BC muscle, and its roles are:
- It’s involved in maintaining an erection and stabilizing the penis.
- It helps to flex the anus.
For curing an ED (erectile dysfunction) and improving the EQ (erection quality) we would need to train the IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle.
For preventing/improving premature ejaculation, and to control orgasms and hold them back, we would need to train the PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle and BC (Bulbocavernosus) muscle.
For having more pressure while 'shooting the load' (ejaculation) or doing 'pumps' while having sex (yes, girls love that), we would need to train the BC (Bulbocavernosus) muscle.
3) Locating and identifying the muscles: - update coming soon!
Finding and isolating the Bulbocavernosus (BC) muscle - coming soon...
Finding and isolating the Pubococcygeus (PC) muscle - coming soon...
Finding and isolating the Ischiocavernosus (IC) muscle - coming soon...
As I'm still learning this part I can just give you the general knowledge for finding your pelvic floors muscles (not isolated) with some own words & copy pasta ?
1. Locating the muscles with contracting them
Next time you go for a pee, start peeing and then try to stop urinating mid-flow. Congrats, that are the muscles you will train with kegels. As you've stopped peeing you just contracted the muscles listed above.
If you can’t stop urinating then it may be that the muscles just aren’t well developed at the moment. Don’t worry though – as long as you find that the flow reduces, you’re probably using the correct muscles.
When first doing this, you may find it useful to start and stop the flow of urine several times until you gain an understanding of which muscles to use.
Please note that stopping the flow of urine is something you only need to do to get an idea of which muscle to use. Don’t do it every time you go to the toilet, as this isn’t recommended by Urologists.
2. Finding the muscles manually
The second technique is to feel the pelvic floor with your fingers while lying on your back. Lie down, raise your knees and then use a couple of fingers to push gently onto your perineum – the area of skin between your testicles and anus.
Here you will have two options for testing it:
1) Go to the toilet, start peeing and put your finger(s) on that area and push onto it, now you should have manually squeezed the area and the muscle surrounding it, is your BC muscle. Attention: As soon as you release your fingers, you body will release the pee.
2) During masturbating/sex, shortly before ejaculating, put your finger(s) on that area and push onto it, now you should feel that you're not ejaculating and the area is contracting and the sperm is trapped there. But attention: If you release too early, sperm will shoot out LOL
You can also use this trick if you really want to shoot the load around the room or at your GF as your muscles aren't trained that good in the beginning for contracting them with the same force.
3. Locating the muscles with an erection
A third technique, and one which can be a useful visual check, is with an erection. If you squeeze/contract the pelvic floor muscles, you should find your erection rises slightly. And if you then relax the squeeze, it should drop down a little.
You might also find that you can feel or see your erection getting bigger or harder. This is another function of the BC muscle, so you may find this is a useful way to check you’re using that muscle.
You can also use this squeeze/contraction when having sex and you're fully inside your girl, girls will go crazy over this as your girth is expanding with the contraction.
4) Kegels & Reverse Kegels - update coming soon!
A kegel is the name of a pelvic floor exercise, named after Dr. Kegel who discovered the exercise.
A Reverse kegel is the opposite of the kegel exercise (for example like what you may know from sports: Push & Pull), but here it would be SQUEEZE & PUSH.
So for clarification, kegels & reverse kegels are only names attached to exercises training different muscles/functions of the pelvic floor area.
Kegels: (SQUEEZE) - update coming soon!
The muscles (listed above in 3)) are attached to the pelvic bone and act like a hammock, holding in your pelvic organs.
Once you have located the muscles simply tighten and relax the muscle.
Here you will have lots of different variations like when working out your muscles.
For beginners the best would be to start contracting the muscles and then relax for a few seconds, then flex it again and relax.
You could start with 30-50 reps à 3 sets. The more you start training your muscles, the easier it will become. Increase the number of reps.
As you can do 50-100 reps, now you can start working on the contraction time.
Instead of just flexing and directly relaxing, you will hold the contraction for 3 seconds each rep and then relax for a few seconds.
The longer you can contract the muscles without relaxing them, the stronger they are and the more benefits you'll have.
When being able to 'kegel' / when you'll have strong pelvic floor muscles which are contracting when you 'kegel', you can:
- hold ejaculation back and have longer sex
- hold ejaculation back but still having some art of orgasm (secret for having multiple orgasms as a male)
- hold ejaculation back and have a much more intense ejaculation once you 'shoot the load'
- 'shooting the load' across the room or at your GFs face ? (don't make her blind when 'shooting' in her eyes haha)
- having stronger erections
- longer erections
- having a larger head/glans during erection due to EQ improvement
- prevent prolapsing of pelvic organs
- can help prevent becoming incontinent and can help curing it
- can help when having premature ejaculation
hold the sperm back before you would ejaculate and can start having multiple orgasms and have
Reverse Kegels: (PUSH) - update coming soon!
Reverse Kegels are the opposite of kegels, in my opinion it's called 'revese' because to locate this muscle, you will need to do the opposite than when doing a normal kegel.
Go to the toilet, start peeing and instead of stopping to pee - now you'll actually try to push out the urine flow as hard as you can.
Now you can feel the muscle(s), which is/are used for kegels.
Note: Reverse Kegels are more difficult than normal kegels.
For exercising you'll target the/those muscle(s) you're using for reverse kegels and contract them.
Reverse Kegel exercise can help to give you:
- the ability to remain erect after an erection
- the ability to have male multiple orgasms
- a more intense orgasm
- stretching benefits
Updates coming soon:
Updates are coming soon!
Also I'll update a more detailed way how to do kegels & reverse kegels.
As soon as I've done an update I'll do a post and bump this up.
As I've already said in the text above, I still need to find exercises/movements how I can isolate certain of the 3 muscles but with kegels and reverse kegels you will be more than fine in the beginning.
Kegels and Reverse Kegels are exercises and are training some of the 3 muscles I've listed above, which ones of them and how much percentage of each - I can't say so far.
I just wanted to give some clarification and basic knowledge of the anatomy of the penis muscles, as most of us newbies are completely confused with all of it.
Also I wanted to show you that the IC (Ischiocavernosus) muscle could be much more important in order to fight EQ and ED than as usual thought, the PC (Pubococcygeus) muscle.
In reason that we can find out as much as we can, feel free to post your knowledge in the thread or send me a message, maybe you're already very experienced and could tell us how to isolate the three muscles for different exercises.
My english obviously isn't the best, so if some mods want to correct some grammar mistakes, feel free to do so!
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