The PC muscle is a hammock-shaped muscle, stretching from your tail bone to your pubic bone. This muscle e.g., controls your bladder, and when you go to the toilet, you can locate it by stopping the stream of urine. The muscle you feel contracting when you do this is your PC muscle. You can strengthen it by voluntarily contracting it, over and over again, during activities like driving a car or watching television. Strengthening the PC muscle will give men and women several sexual and health benefits.



A regular PC muscle workout improves the general health of your genitals, by improving the circulation of your genitals. To understand this, you have to understand the importance of good circulation for your health.

Circulation is crucial, because it transports the oxygen and nutrients needed for metabolism to the cells, and it removes the metabolic waste products and carbon dioxide from the cells. The better the circulation, the more efficient this process, and the healthier the cells will be.

PC muscle exercises increase the blood flow to your genitals, thus improving the general health of your genitals. If you combine this exercise with a healthy life-style, you have the best foundation for remaining sexually active your whole life.

One function of the PC muscle is bladder control. When the PC muscle gets weaker, when you get older for example, it becomes more difficult to control your bladder, which can lead to urine incontinence. Training the PC muscle can cure this urine incontinence. People who visit a doctor with urine incontinence often receive instructions to train their PC muscle. Because it works: once the strength of the PC muscle is restored, the bladder control is restored.

But why wait for those problems to start before we start training? When you get into the habit of training your PC muscle, for all the sexual benefits, you will also prevent the development of a weak bladder, regardless of how old you are. If you already have a weak bladder, or experience some “dripping" after you go to the toilet, you will notice that with regular PC workouts these are problems from the past.

Kegel exercises also improve the health of your prostate by increasing the circulation and by massaging your prostate every time you tense and relax your PC muscle. The prostate is an organ that, specifically for older men, can be troublesome. To keep the prostate healthy every man should get into the habit of doing PC muscle exercises.

Besides the improved circulation that PC exercises give to the genitals, there is another mechanism that benefits your prostate. Every time you tense your PC muscle, you put mild pressure on the prostate, and blood is gently squeezed out of the prostate. When you relax the PC muscle again fresh blood fills your prostate. This continual massage that stimulates the prostate’s circulation is very beneficial, and will help to keep it healthy.

The PC muscle is one of the pelvic floor muscles. Pelvic floor muscles form, together with your pelvis, a basket-shaped form that supports your intestines. Weakening of the pelvic floor can cause several medical problems, e.g., prolapsed pelvic organs and hemorrhoids. An added benefit of training your PC muscle is that you dramatically lower the chance that these medical problems happen to you, because you keep your pelvic floor fit and strong.