Boost: Sit-On-Top Kegel Trainer for Men -25%

No. In general, Boost should be able to accurately measure your pelvic floor muscle activation even through your pants (please note that it is important to make sure that you are calibrating Boost at the beginning of each workout). The one exception in terms of clothes is if you are wearing really stiff pants; this may interfere with Boost’s measurements and require a change of clothes to use it.

Boost works well with nearly all types of clothing. The one exception we have found is if you are wearing extremely stiff pants (really stiff denim is an example). In this case, you may need to change clothes to something more relaxed to use Boost.

Sit on it like it’s a bike seat, with your perineum on top of the Soft Air Pillow. Most people find that having the button pointing backwards works best but either orientation (button in the front or the back) can work.

There are a few potential reasons. The most common is that you may be shifting your weight (for example, leaning slightly forward / backward / sideways) -- it’s important to maintain both good posture and a quiet / still body position during each workout and always press the “Calibrate” button if you do shift your weight. It’s also possible that you could be activating other muscles in the pelvic region, such as your glutes, abs or inner thigh muscles. If you’re having trouble with this and not able to figure it out, please contact us at contact@pelvifly.com for more thorough and personalized troubleshooting.

No. In particular, those with pelvic floor muscles that are hypertonic, or too tense, should not be doing Kegel exercise, since this can exacerbate pelvic pain or other problems that hypertonic pelvic floor muscles can cause. More generally, the ultimate authorities on your body / pelvic floor muscles are you and your doctor or physical therapist -- checking with them about any questions or problems is always the right idea.

There is a good bit of flexibility here. Exercising every day, for 5-15 minutes per day, is probably the optimal regimen, but we know that doesn’t fit into everyone’s schedule. Our experience has been that doing at least 5 minutes of pelvic floor exercise per day, 3 days per week, generally results in measurable improvements in pelvic floor muscle function (i.e. Boost workout score averages) within 6-8 weeks. But exercising more frequently will generally lead to faster and/or larger improvements. Listen to your body and be sure not to over-exercise.

It depends on your starting point, and your workout regimen (how much and how often you are doing workouts). But if you’re working out at least 3 days per week, for at least 5 minutes per day, our experience is that you will usually see measurable improvements in pelvic floor muscle function (i.e. Boost workout score averages) within 6-8 weeks.

Imagine that you’re peeing and you need to stop mid-stream. The muscles you just flexed are your pelvic floor muscles, and you just did a pelvic floor muscle, or Kegel, contraction. It’s also helpful to visualize a lifting and squeezing sensation.

The first thing to do is to select a workout in the app, while holding Boost in your hand and squeezing -- make sure that the app / workout is responding correctly when you squeeze. If that is the case, it means your Boost is working and there are two common other explanations. It could be your technique -- see the FAQs on How to do a Kegel. If you’re confident that your technique is good, and that you’re activating your pelvic floor muscles (and not your glutes, abs, or inner thighs), the other explanation is that it could be a calibration issue. Try to recalibrate manually at the beginning of the workout by pressing the “Calibrate” button in the app and see if that helps. If it’s still not working please contact us at contact@pelvifly.com for more thorough and personalized troubleshooting.