Welcome to the GetFake Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit guy.

In today's episode, you're going to learn about whether or not Kegel exercises work,

how to do them, and much more.

As private and potentially embarrassing a topic as this may be, I'll just go ahead and admit it. I've been doing lots of Kegel exercises lately.

First defined in 1948 by this gynecologist named Arnold Kegel, Kegel exercises consist of repeatedly contracting and relaxing the muscles that form your pelvic floor, sometimes with the use of special weights and devices to increase resistance.

Typically, Kegel exercises are done to help get rid of urinary incontinence to reduce premature ejaculation or to increase the size

and intensity of erections. They can also be used to help pregnant women with childbirth or to

recover more quickly from childbirth. Now, I'll let your mind go wild about which of those

reasons inspired me to personally choose to try a 30-day

stint of daily kegel exercises. And I'm working on a separate article for that over at

Ben-Greenfield Fitness.com, but suffice it to say, kegalls have definitely been something on my

mind lately. So, first of all, how do keegel exercises work? Well, as I alluded to,

the basic purpose of Kegel exercises is to increase the muscle tone, strength, and endurance of your

pelvic floor muscles, specifically by strengthening the muscles of your pelvic floor that are called

the Pubo-Kacaggous muscles.

Yeah, that's a mouthful.

Well, the most popularly prescribed use of kegel exercises is to, like I mentioned, help

pregnant women prepare their pelvic floor for the rigors of pregnancy and childbirth.

But kegels can also be used for vaginal and uterine prolapse, in which parts of

your anatomy literally fall out of you, not pleasant, treating prostate pain in men, treating

urinary incontinence in men and women, and helping with both premature ejaculation and also

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