You’ve probably heard of kegel exercises — movements meant to help strengthen your pelvic floor. Tone up those muscles that support the uterus, bladder, and bowels, and you can likely improve some of the discomforts of late pregnancy, like leaking urine and hemorrhoids.
These exercises aren’t new — but one new high-tech system in the marketplace suggests they’re important enough that it’s time we took them more seriously. Basically, it wants to be a personal trainer for our vaginas. Are you paying attention yet?
The sexual health and wellness product company Minna Life recently released kGoal, an interactive training device and app for pelvic floor exercise. The goal is to get all women to recognize the importance of doing the exercises — including the 17 percent who didn’t know what kegels were, according to a survey that the brand conducted. The survey also showed more than half of women don’t really know how to do a kegel.
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