The Kegel Coach is here to help you visualize and integrate what a proper pelvic floor contraction should feel like.
Just like your health specialist would do at the beginning of a pelvic floor therapy rehabilitation: make the brain understand what's going on in the body, then make the body understand by practicing.
The Kegel Coach can be accessed from the Exercises tab under the Learn the perfect Kegel section.
The Kegel Coach asks you to go through 3 steps:
Read a few words about pelvic floor training and how biofeedback is helping make sure it's effective.
Try to do a pelvic floor contraction. Repeat 4 times. Release between each contraction to let your muscles relax. Relaxation is as important as contraction!
Try to cough or contract your tummy: observe the intra-abdominal pressure it creates against your pelvic floor.
You're all set to head to the games within your training program or to the Practice Lab (also under the Learn the perfect Kegel section of the Exercises tab).
Come back anytime if you feel like you could use a refresher.
During both Games and Practice Lab, a contraction quality meter will be displayed to help you monitor the quality of your contractions.
Here are additional ways of describing what proper Kegels feel like:
Squeeze your pelvic floor as if you were trying to stop your flow of urine
Squeeze as if you were holding gas.
Squeeze as if you were sucking up liquid through your vagina with a straw.
Squeeze as if you were lifting up a weight with your vagina.
Imagine you are tightening your vagina around a tampon.
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Remember to keep everything else, especially your butt, stomach, and thighs relaxed.
