Kegel exercises are exercises to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. It is also refer to as pelvic floor exercises. They affect the muscles that support your uterus, bladder, small intestine, and rectum. Kegels don’t just help keep them fit, they can help you avoid bladder leaks and passing gas or stool by accident. They can even improve your orgasms.

Benefits of Kegel Exercise
When they’re working like they should, your pelvic floor muscles may never cross your mind. But as you age, they can start to weaken. This puts you at risk for a condition doctors call pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Basically, your pelvic organs start to droop. They can fall into or out of your vagina. If you’ve had a hysterectomy, your vaginal tissues can start to come out of your body.

Other things that put you at risk for POP include:

• Pregnancy
• Giving birth through the vagina
• Surgery in the pelvic area (C-section or hysterectomy)
• Genetics
• Frequent coughing, laughing, or sneezing (it pushes on the pelvic organs)
• Kegel exercises aren’t just for women. They can strengthen men’s pelvic floor muscles, too. These muscles support your bladder and bowel and affect sexual function. Kegels can help if you have trouble with bladder or bowel incontinence, or if you dribble after you pee. They can make sex better by giving you more feeling during an orgasm and greater control over ejaculation.