Longer kegels

In my experience, holding longer kegels are much more beneficial than the suggested 5 second kegels on this website. Two summers ago, I signed up for a website that specialized with holding kegels that would count for you and aid you while you do them. I’m not going to post the exact routines, but they had you start with 10 second or so kegels, with an intermediate kegel time of around 20 seconds. By the end of the summer, I was doing around 30 second kegels. My BC muscle was incredibly strong and I could pretty much hold off an ejaculation very close to my PONR.

After a long break, I completely stopped kegeling and started PE, with which I started doing the recommended 5 second kegels. I can do around 100 5 second kegels now, but I feel my muscle is nowhere near as strong as when I used to practice the longer kegels. Not only this, but for some people including myself, it may lead to involuntary BC muscle contractions, which can lead to quicker ejaculations during sex.

This is just my opinion, I’m not too informed on these muscles and how they work, but this is definitely the case with my experience.

If you want to try this routine out, do 10 reps of 10 second kegels with around 6 second rests in between them. Work your way up to 10 reps of 20 second kegels with around 8 second rests between them. Then work your way up to 10 reps of 30 second kegels with around 12 second rests between them.

If the rests are too much, try starting with longer rests for the few first reps, then gradually decrease them towards the ending reps. Try to do at least 2 sets, 3 sets if you have time, every other day. Take at least a 3 minute rest between sets.

I hold kegels anywhere between 1 and 60 seconds, I can do it for 120 seconds too if I’m in the mood. :)

Does anybody with experience have any input on this, especially anybody that switched from short kegels to long kegels and vice versa?

I’ve been doing short kegels before I started PE(many reps shorter than 5 sec), this was helpful for lasting erections and it helped me last longer, not sure about how these longer kegels have affected me during actual sex because unfortunately I haven’t got laid since i started PE. One thing I’ve experienced though is that sometimes I get ridiculously hard which seldom happened during my pre PE routine but I did less often then.

Alex553, thanks for the routine. I’ll give it a try and later update on the results.

Whenever I remember to do them I do ten one-second kegels and then one ten-second kegel and keep going back and fourth for maybe 4-5 repetitions. After that I just kegel and hold it as long as I can. Eventually I forget that I am holding a kegel and just keep doing whatever I am doing until I remember again and start over.

I definitely feel it more in my BC muscle this way. I think I could do 10 second kegels all day long without my BC getting tired, but the long holds are what really give my BC a workout.

Also, I have noticed that you can kind of flex in different areas - one area that gives you some pressure under your tailbone, one area that makes your testicles recede into your body, one area that makes my wang kind of jump around - so I try and do at least a few reps in each area until it all gets tired and just kind of turns into one overall kegel workout out all the areas at once. Also different body positions - sitting, standing, lets apart, together, etc. - feel like they hit different areas and give a slightly different workout.

Cheers,
Whiskey

What website are you referring to?

I’ll give it a shot.

Moderators, am I allowed to post the website?

WhiskeyFish, thanks for sharing your experience. I’ve just started doing kegels in different positions, and find it productive. Each position allows to work out BC in a slightly different manner.

Alex553, though I’m not a moderator, as far as I know, you are allowed to post any relevant link(s) unless it’s a porn site.

This is the website http://www.kegelcoach.com/ .

When I first tried it, I payed two or three dollars for a two week trial, not sure if they still have it. Otherwise I believe it’s around 10 or 15 dollars a month. It keeps track track of your past kegel routines, counts your kegels with you, and has some other cool features. I liked it but the feel price for it is a bit too much.

My mistake, meant to say the full price is too much.

Thank you, Alex. But I doubt that their standardized routine is optimal for everyone. IMO it may be more beneficial to go by feel, and count contractions and pauses yourself.

I’ll just go with the routine, you described in your first post: 3-4 sets of 10 10-second kegels with 6-second breaks.

Which schedule would you recommend from your experience: every other day, 2 days on 1 off, 5 on 2 off?

Definitely every other day, at least while you are still going up in duration and intensity. When I did these I would always feel a little fatigued even with 1 on 1 off.

You don’t want to spend doing 30 minutes on kegels every other day, it’s just not worth it. Once you reach you desired duration time and get used to doing the kegels, maybe 2 on 1 off is good.

Thank you. I have been doing 60-80 6-8-second kegels 5 on 2 off for 5-6 weeks and got over-trained. I ignored advices like yours that for many people every other day is a more productive and safer way. Now I realize that I’m a “less is more” guy with regard to kegels.

So, I start then 40 10-second kegels with 6-second rests every other day for the next 3-4 weeks.