How to kegel and strengthen your pelvic floor with Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist Michelle Kenway from Michelle shares professional training techniques for how to kegel to help you strengthen and tone up your pelvic floor muscles.
Learn how to locate your pelvic floor, how to best feel your pelvic floor exercises and then how to do kegel exercises to train your pelvic floor strength. These kegel exercise techniques improve pelvic floor control and support. They also help women manage and overcome some pelvic floor problems including pelvic prolapse and incontinence issues.
Michelle is the author “Inside Out” the internationally acclaimed guide to pelvic floor strengthening and safe exercise available at
The Kegel Queen, a registered nurse, explains how Kegel exercises — only when performed correctly — can safely help with rectocele (rectal prolapse) without surgery.
Please visit www.kegelqueen.com to learn more.
Any health information provided by the Kegel Queen or her support team is educational. It’s not medical advice, and it’s not a substitute for medical care. Read our full medical disclaimer here:
Kegel exercises to help prevent recurrent prolapse after prolapse surgery or hysterectomy with Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist Michelle Kenway from Michelle helps guide you with starting out positions, gentle progressions and techniques for recommencing kegels after pelvic surgery.
Kegel exercises after pelvic surgery aim to prevent recurrent prolapse, and improve pelvic support. They may also help overcome associated bladder or bowel control problems. This video is designed for women who have their medical specialist’s approval to recommence kegels after prolapse surgery.
Michelle is the author of the acclaimed ‘Inside Out’ pelvic floor safe exercise program for women after hysterectomy or pelvic floor prolapse surgery available from
How to Kegel with Physical Therapist guidance for correct technique from Michelle shares her expertise in showing you correct Kegel technique and exercise prescription for strengthening.
Episode 3 in the ‘How to Kegel’ series helps women understand and exercise correctly for stronger pelvic floor muscles. Kegel exercises are known to improve pelvic floor strength and pelvic floor support. Knowing how to kegel correctly can help women exercise effectively to improve bladder problems (bladder leakage), bowel problems (faecal incontinence), poor sexual sensation and response and reduce pelvic prolapse symptoms.
Knowing how to kegel in sitting or standing involves:
– Attending to your posture to ensure the normal inward curve in the low back
– Identifying your pelvic floor muscles in and around your three pelvic openings
– Exercising these pelvic floor muscles to perform an inward pelvic lift and squeeze
– Maintaining your pelvic floor muscle contraction
– Relaxing your pelvic floor muscles back to their normal resting position
– Resting briefly before attempting your next kegel exercise
– Breathing normally throughout this exercise.
To strengthen your pelvic floor muscles with Kegel exercises:
1. Perform your pelvic exercises daily
2. Hold every exercise attempt for up to 10 seconds at a time
3. Relax and rest for 15-45 seconds between exercises
4. Repeat up to 8-12 kegel exercises in a row, 3 times a day
5. Kegel exercises can be done lying down, sitting or standing.
Studies show that it can take up to 5-6 months to strengthen weak pelvic floor muscles. Kegel exercises are important for women to do regularly lifelong for their pelvic floor health.
‘How to Kegel’ Health Professional Series:
Episode 1: What is a Kegel?
Episode 2: How to feel your Kegels
Episode 3: How to strengthen your pelvic floor
Episode 4: Beginner’s Kegel workout
Episode 5: Advanced Kegel workout
Kegels for women FAQ’s physiotherapy answers to common pelvic floor exercise concerns. Learn more about Kegels for vaginal gas, pelvic prolapse, how to feel Kegel exercises, Vaginismus (pelvic spasm) and challenges other women commonly experience doing Kegels for the first time.
This Kegels FAQ answers the following questions from viewers
0:39 Will it be helpful if I have a bad prolapse? -Usman
1:31 Any exercise for vaginal gas passing? -Reet
3:18 It’s quite a sensitive topic but I’ll say it anyways, my partner keeps mentioning my loose vagina and because I’m quite embarrassed by that, I’m finding ways to tighten things down there I hope this exercise works for me. Thanks for sharing Ms Michelle -Gabriel
4:41 I find that while I do this my abdomen is being pulled in too at the same time. Is that OK? -Janet
6:02 If you put your finger in and squeeze and feel it around your finger tighten is that correct? -Summer
7:03 Can I ask you if I’m doing this right: I lay down flat on my stomach with no pillow under my pelvis. Before I raise my pelvis up, I contract my pelvis and buttock muscles for 2 seconds. Then, with these muscles contracted, I raise my pelvis up off the floor about 5″. In this raised state, I release the muscles and contract again, and do this for 10 seconds. I’ve been doing this for two weeks, and I believe that my urination trips to the bathroom have decreased. -L Duranceau
7:57 When I tighten my legs automatically engage? Is this correct? -Bonnie
8:44 Will this still work even when im already 45 years old? Phoebelyn
9:19 Hello Ma’am.. I have vaginismus problem. My vagina is very tight. Which exercise would be best for me? -Sneha
10:12 Charmaine – Kegels are so hard 😒Ariseli – Am i the only one who can’t do it?
Fiona – I can’t do it
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The Kegel Queen, a registered nurse, describes how Kegel exercises — only when performed correctly — can help with pelvic organ prolapse (cystocele, rectocele, or uterine prolapse), without surgery.
Please visit www.kegelqueen.com to learn more.
Any health information provided by the Kegel Queen or her support team is educational. It’s not medical advice, and it’s not a substitute for medical care. Read our full medical disclaimer here:
Women can do Kegel exercises to ensure that pelvic floor muscles become stronger.
Kegel exercises are done by women to ensure that pelvic floor muscles become stronger. Several factors can negatively impact on the pelvic floor in women including obesity, aging, etc. Watch Selvambigai, physiotherapist in Kauvery Hospital, explain about the pelvic floor muscle weakness and how to make the muscles strong. She suggests three essential exercises to be done at home. You can do these exercises by yourself, and if guidance is needed, you can consult a physiotherapist.
0:09 What is Kegel Exercises?
0:31 What causes pelvic floor damage?
1:20 How to do Kegel Exercises
There are numerous sexual health benefits to Kegels. Using Kegel exercises for vaginal tightening and to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles can improve overall intimacy.
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Want to learn how to do Kegel Exercises correctly? Here it is! This video outlines some cues and visualizations to help you connect with your pelvic floor so you can finally do a kegel exercise correctly and effectively. Ultimately a pelvic floor physiotherapist is your best tool but there is a lot you can do on your own!
Kegels work when they are done correctly and consistently and coordinated with movement.
Studies show that most women are doing kegels incorrectly and stop because their symptoms don’t improve. Simply telling someone to ‘do kegels’ is not enough. People need visualizations, cues, instructions on how and why and also guidance on how to add kegels to movement.
Doing kegels at every red light doesn’t transfer to real life (especially if the kegels are done incorrectly).
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