Comment by wafflemaker
2 days ago
Please also mention how easy those exercises are:
Once per day, when peeing, do it differently. 1. Release the stream during the in-breath. 2. Stop and hold the stream on the outbreath. 3. If not yet bored or tired go back to 1. Else - finish peeing normally. That's it.
And note that for most people, a week to few weeks of the exercise give stronger orgasms and ability to delay the ejaculation.
<<Don't do Kegels while you urinate. Stopping your bladder from emptying could raise your risk of a bladder infection.>> https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/mens-health/in-...
Thank you! Didn't know I endangered people by suggesting it to them.
I usually got bored halfway and after 3-6 breaths finished peeing normally. It was also because I've noticed that the exercise made it very hard to push out the last of urine from the bladder. Now I know it's also very unhealthy not to empty all the way.
As with any internet post about exercise, someone must eventually come along and mention the good old weighted squat. Squats are well known to strengthen pelvic floor.
My own anecdata confirms the benefits of pelvic floor exercises without any kegels, at least back when I regularly did lift weights.
But is stopping the flow of urine an apt description of the exercise? Is it a case of “do it as if you were doing that, without actually doing it while urinating?” If so, I think I’d be hard pressed to find a simpler way to describe it to any man (no idea if it applies to women as well).
Yes, and you also want to do fast and short Kegel's in different positions.
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> And note that for most people, a week to few weeks of the exercise give stronger orgasms and ability to delay the ejaculation.
I've experienced all those benefits when I started walking two times a day, 8-10 thousands of steps a day continuously for several weeks. I haven't performed any other exercises.
But it's really boring and you need to do it every day. I do it only because I need to walk a dog.
Two ways I’ve made walks less boring:
- I started carrying a camera
- I started using the Merlin Bird ID app
Photography has made me realize how much I was previously ignoring. There’s so much to see, and even when walking the same route over and over, there’s an astounding amount of change over time. Often little things.
The Bird ID app made me realize just how many unique birds were making up the sounds I was hearing. As I learned to distinguish between them, I found myself fascinated in a way that I’d never been before.
Walks became almost meditative over time, and the sights and sounds a kind of salve for my often tired brain.
I often feel like I can think more clearly when walking as well, and thought processes kind of just sort themselves out as I go.
I highly recommend making walks more than just a way to move your body. They can be much more, and getting the benefits of movement almost feels like a happy side effect.
I also recommend the Seek app by iNaturalist. Though if you’re like me and use it to identify plants and every bug you see, you may not actually get that much walking accomplished.
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+1 Merlin. I also stop and do a few minutes with Duolingo in the park, then take a breath and just listen to the wind and birdsong.
Walking is considered by einstein and pretty much all thinkers to be critical to deep work. It's also covered in Cal Newport's book "deep work" briefly. Which is a short audiobook worth reading.
One such prescription would be to do deep work early in the day then walk after and walk again 2 hours before bed. Another would be split the deep work with a 1 hour walk and do the 2nd walk after the 2nd block.
It may be more fulfilling with lots of interesting ideas rattling around. YMMV
I desperately want to do this type of walking, but I live in a major city. There’s always something to distract me, which is great for boredom perhaps, but ruins any sense of zen or reflection. I would say half of every walk involves people yelling, loud vehicles, and louder music. Noise-cancelling headphones are only useful for distraction through podcasts and music, not for decompressing. I’m starting to wonder if the solution, the sad solution, is to walk on a treadmill at a gym during off-peak hours.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't find walking to be boring at all! Especially when I'm working on something new, I will walk as many as 10 miles a day while thinking through all of the design corners.
Even when I'm not working, I like taking long walks to think about family, friends, video games, etc.
Its a great way to get into your head without the distraction of a phone or feed or forced message.
>But it's really boring and you need to do it every day. I do it only because I need to walk a dog.
I'm lucky enough to have a pedestrian path to do my long walks (so no cars or even bikes to contend with, bikes have a dedicated parallel path), so I listen to a podcast while walking around 1 hour/day.
Taking long walks daily was great but damn if it didn't increase my appetite. I gained weight over a couple years in spite of 4+ miles a day.
Were you walking to the cake shop and back?
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That's pretty much textbook why exercise on its own will not reduce weight. You need to control your intake as well.
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This is anecdotal as it gets, but I've developed prostate issues almost simultaneously with quitting photography. Didn't think about it until now.
I often listen to podcasts while walking. Or I think. I also own a walking pad and walk while working (1h in the morning, 1h in the afternoon - not every day but most).
Podcasts help me with the boringness.
I find walking very enjoyable.
I do a lot of daydreaming when I walk, too (to my wife and daughter's impatience!).
You must have been in really bad shape before if you're getting such noticeable health benefits from a rather modest exercise intervention like 8k steps.
My average over the last year is ~13K steps a day. But I am usually not bored when walking, I enjoy it, in fact. So it is not a burden.
Huh. So that “happiness through clenching your butthole daily” or whatever-it-was copy-paste troll that was so common on Slashdot back in the day, was… very close to being excellent advice?
If true, maybe netcraft did confirm that OpenBSD is dead after all.
Not quite. Focusing on your anus when clenching is a good way to develop hemorrhoids.
Different muscles, but you need practice to learn to control them independently.
Can't I just do kegels when I'm sitting or standing? It's not like they're obvious or take much effort, and the result should be about the same, no?
I think people give the cue of stopping urination to help others find the muscles that you need to engage. Otherwise, yes, you absolutely can just do them any time you want. In yoga it’s called mula bandha [1]. You’re often instructed to engage it while practicing asana or pranayama. I even focus on engaging it when I’m out for a run or lifting weights.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandha_(yoga)#Mula_bandha
Thanks, I think I'll practice whole brushing my teeth, probably the easiest to not forget to do, as it's an everyday thing that I'm unlikely to ever stop doing.
BTW beware of snoozing or coughing while you're holding yourself.
Is there a name for this technique? Interested to research the why behind it.
Kegel exercise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegel_exercise
Wow, I was so sure it was PC or PV muscle exercise, because author of the book where I learned about the peeing exercise said that men don't have Kegels muscles. I stand corrected.
Kegel?