Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Why You Are Probably Doing Kegels Wrong #menshealth #kegels

26 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short segment of her YouTube video, Dr. Anne Truong MD explains that the most common mistake men (and women) make when performing Kegel exercises is over‑contracting the pelvic floor muscles. She clarifies that a tight, overly‑tense muscle does not equate to strength; instead, excessive tension prevents proper relaxation, which is necessary for a strong, effective contraction. Dr. Truong shares her own experience of having performed Kegels incorrectly by contracting too much, illustrating how tightness can actually counteract the intended strengthening effect. She emphasizes that learning to relax the pelvic floor before each contraction is essential for building stronger pelvic muscles.

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And it's essentially stimulating the pelvic muscle here, contraction for you. Because most men do it wrong. Most men and women do it wrong. I do it wrong. I'm the doctor that does this and I was doing it wrong because I was contracting too much. Because the number one problem for men with the pelvic muscles is that it's tight for you. So most of the time, tight doesn't mean stronger, just tight that the muscle tone is tight. You need to relax it so that way you can stronger contraction. So what happened is that when it's tight, it's hard for you to relax it. So in my case, I was contracting too much. So when I'm contracting too much, it doesn't do the work at all. It actually counter the effect that I want to have with the stronger pelvic muscles. So if I'm doing it wrong, most likely everybody else is doing it wrong manually.