Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Stop Tensing Your Abs During Kegels! 🛑 #KegelMistakes #Men

16 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this instructional clip, Dr. Anne Truong explains that many men perform Kegel exercises incorrectly by unintentionally tensing surrounding muscles such as the inner thighs, buttocks, and abdominal muscles. She emphasizes that a proper Kegel for men requires complete relaxation of these areas and isolated contraction of only the ischiocavernosus and bulbospongiosus muscles. Dr. Truong demonstrates a practical method for confirming the correct contraction: placing a hand under the scrotum to feel the subtle muscle movement. The key takeaways are to relax all non‑target muscles, focus the contraction solely on the pelvic floor muscles, and use tactile feedback to ensure proper technique.

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Most men do it wrong because you, like, tense up your leg muscles, like the inner thigh muscle. You tense up your buttock muscles, or you tense up your ab muscle. So you do it wrong if you're doing that. To do it right, to do a correct Kegel, you have to relax everything and just contract the ischiocavernosus and the bulbospongiosus muscle alone. And how you do that is just a little contraction. You can put your hand Bring your hand and put it underneath your scrotum, and you can feel the contraction. So if you just contract those muscles, you can feel the contraction underneath your hand, and it feels like a muscle contract. Yeah, make sure you relax your buttocks and your inner thighs.