
If you can do this exercise, repeat it up to 10 times, but only as long as you can do it with perfect technique while breathing quietly and keeping everything above the belly button relaxed.

Make sure you can breathe easily while you squeeze. Once you have mastered the art of contracting your pelvic floor muscles correctly, you can try holding the inward squeeze for longer (up to 10 seconds) before relaxing.
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Doing pelvic floor muscle exercises the wrong way can be bad for you, so please see a health professional if you cannot feel your muscles hold or relax. This is an internal exercise and correct technique is vital. It is common to try too hard and have too many outside muscles tighten. This will allow your muscles to recover from the previous contraction and prepare for the next contraction. For example, if you cannot feel your muscles contracting in a seated position, try lying down or standing up instead.Īfter a contraction it is important to relax the muscles. If you cannot feel your muscles contracting, change your position and try again. Try tightening your muscles really gently to feel just the pelvic floor muscles lifting and squeezing in. This is not a problem, as this part of the tummy works together with the pelvic floor muscles. Some tensing and flattening of the lower part of the tummy wall will happen. Nothing above the belly button should tighten or tense. See if you can squeeze in and hold the muscles inside the pelvis while you breathe. Imagine letting go like you would to pass urine or to pass wind. This is the most important part of the pelvic floor muscle exercises as there is no point doing them if you are not doing them correctly. Identify the muscles that contract when you do all these things together.Women who are familiar with using tampons can imagine squeezing in the vagina as if squeezing a tampon up higher in the vagina.The muscles around the front and back passages should squeeze up and inside the pelvis.Squeeze in the muscles around the back passage as if trying to stop passing wind.Squeeze in the muscles around the vagina and suck upwards inside the pelvic.

