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A strong pelvic floor could boost your sex life
In all my pestering (nagging!) about keeping our muscles strong and firm to help boost our metabolic rate and support bones and joints, there’s one thing I haven’t mentioned for a while. Your pelvic floor. I can already hear you muttering and mumbling to the tune of ‘What’s the point?’ or ‘It’s too late’. But, it turns out that it’s never too late.
The pelvic floor is a sling of muscles and tendons, like a hammock, which runs from the pubic bone at the front to your coccyx (tailbone) at the back. It provides support to the pelvic organs (the bladder, bowel and uterus) and, along with other muscles of the core, allows the body to absorb outside pressure, such as that from lifting, coughing or sneezing. Marvellous, isn’t it?
It helps with bladder and bowel continence, too, as it controls the release of urine, stools and wind, but also plays a big part in sensation during sex. The slacker the muscle, the less responsive it is so, if we spend as much time on our pelvic floor as we do on getting firm thighs, then we will soon be adding increased sensitivity and stronger orgasms to our list of wins.
It’s a muscle like any other, so the more you work it (and consistently work it) the stronger it will get. For women and men. How? Sit comfortably (in the car, at your desk, on the train – wherever, no one will know!) and draw up your internal muscles as if to hold in a wee (or a fart!). As things improve, you’ll soon be able to feel the drawing up from vagina to urethra to anus in a semicircle. The most importan
