Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Skipping the Gym? Your 🍆 is Skipping it Too! #Fitness #MensHealth

16 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube segment, Dr. Anne Truong explains how regular moderate exercise directly benefits male sexual health. She cites studies showing that each 2‑point rise in exercise intensity boosts nitric oxide production by about 1%, improving vascular function and penile blood flow. The recommendation is roughly 150 minutes of moderate activity per week—about 30 minutes, three to four times, at a pace where counting to ten becomes difficult (e.g., brisk walking). The message is that skipping the gym not only harms cardiovascular fitness but also reduces penile health, so modest, consistent exercise is key.

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Do you know that every time you skip the gym, your penis is skipping it too? Study shows that for every 2-point increase in your exercise intensity, your blood vessel get 1% more at producing better nitric oxide. So when you're on the treadmill or in the gym, you're just not training your heart, you're also training your penis. So let's dive into this episode as to how exercise help with your penis. Exercise, I know it sounds kind of boring, But it's not the heavy-duty exercise at all. It's actually exercises that you don't have to exert yourself too much. It's just moderate exercise. And I'm talking about exercise that only needs about 150 minutes a week or about approximately 30 minutes, 3 to 4 times a week. And it's moderate level. So the level where you can walk at a fast pace, where you have a hard time counting from 1 to 10. That's it.