5 Exercises for Sex (For Men and Women)

5 Exercises for Sex (men and women)

When I was a personal trainer in college, I'd get a question people were totally unashamed to ask (which is great IMO). Other than cardio/weight management/healthy eating and the obvious general concepts, what are specific exercises to focus on improving sexual performance?

Here are 5 exercises applicable for both women and men.

1. Squats

5 Exercises for Sex (For Men and Women)

Squats work your hamstrings (under thighs), quads (upper thighs), your back, your core and engage your entire body to lift the weight resting on your shoulders.

2. Planks

5 Exercises for Sex (For Men and Women)

Planks are great to throw into your ab routine to keep things fresh and motivating. A front plank is literally holding the body position you see above. Focus on flexing your abs and keeping your core tight.

As you become more comfortable you can add more advanced variations like twisting your body side-to-side and lowering and raising your body towards the floor. Experienced lifters: definitely do this, and work on lifting your body up and down quickly and you'll feel it hits your Serratus as well, a very difficult little muscle group to hit.

This exercise is absolutely critical for men, since it simulates a thrusting position.

Just a warning, holding this position for a while (> 60 seconds) can quickly become absolutely brutal. You see rugby and American football teams throw this into team drills for a reason.

3. Decline board situps

5 Exercises for Sex (For Men and Women)

Anyone in fitness that even casually reads sports science knows that your standard floor crunches/situps are not effective at engaging your entire core (although of course, better than nothing). Sitting on a decline board allows you to rip your core to shreds, which is what we want to accomplish!

Sit on a decline board and do whatever hurts the most. Sit ups, Russian twists, V-situps, whatever you want. The #1 rule is to fully stretch your core/rib cage at the bottom (eccentric) position of a situp, and fully contract and tighten your core at the top (concentric) position of the movement.

This exercise too, can easily become brutal. I would encourage someone to just focus on every rep and when it's too much, take a breather and do another set. Set, set, set, set focus on cranking out sets, as this will truly traumatize your muscles and allow for growth and development.

4. Mountain Climbers

5 Exercises for Sex (For Men and Women)

Mountain climbers are performed by holding your body in a pushup position and alternating your knees in, close to your chest. Alternate, left knee, right knee. Go slow until you are comfortable with the motion and work on building your speed, while maintaining perfect form.

5. Leg Raises

5 Exercises for Sex (For Men and Women)

5 Exercises for Sex (For Men and Women)

Leg Raises can be performed in a couple different positions, seen above. on bench or hanging. I would discourage the "Captain's Chair" equipment where you hold your body up with your forearms, as this limits the stabilization your core can be exposed to, and limits the effectiveness.

Once in position, simply raise your legs, without moving them. Think of your legs are one object you are lifting with your abs only. The primary benefit of leg raises is how it targets your lower abs, it does this (arguably, of course) better than any other exercise.

Like all other exercises, focus on tightening the target muscle group. This is a critical peice that people forget, in all areas of lifting.

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Most Helpful Guy

  • Guys should practice edging, but with a twist on it.

    While masturbating, instead of stopping when they feel they're about to cum, men should vary their speed accordingly, and set a predetermined time as to how long they want to last.

    Then ideal is is getting a fleshlight and your favorite porn and get to business being careful to not get over-excited and probably keep it on the slower side. However, fleshlights are expensive, so if you just use lube and again, vary the speed at which you stroke, that should be good enough too. You probably don't want to go slow all the time, but again vary the speed.

    The reason is that during a real sex session, much more practical will be to slow down and speed up, rather than temporarily stop thrusting altogether.

    Gradually increase your time as you get better.

    You need to learn how to control your ejaculation like you control when you urinate.

    Tips to delay ejaculation:

    - Breathe deeply
    - Relax; don't squirm or tense up
    - Sometimes an effective tactic is to divert your mind (i. e. do long division in your head)

    Tip you wouldn't expect: in most cases, don't hold back the feelings of pleasure though, unless as a last-resort tactic to hold back ejaculation. What you need to get used to is being able to stay at relatively high levels of sexual arousal without needing to cum.

Most Helpful Girl

  • I already do planks, mountain climbers and leg raises so I think I'm off to a great start!

    Just wondering if the bear crawl would also make the list for a sex workout? It's a great full-body workout in my opinion.

    Great post! Thanks for the tips :D

    • So I had to look up what a bear crawl even is! Looks good, but the mountain climbers I described appear to be perhaps a little bit more rigorous and maintain a stationary position so you don't have to take up space. But go ahead with what you are comfortable with :)

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  • I never understood why people would use barbells with squats. It looks so unhealthy for your back. Is that seriously a good exercise?

    • As long as you keep your back straight you're fine. What do you do squats with--dumbbells?

    • I just use my body weight, no extra utensils.

    • Aren't they getting easy? Add weight! Crush weight!

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  • Excellent Take! I agree with doing your ab workouts with an incline. They're brutal. And I also agree with someone else's comment that hip thrusts and bridges are awesome for women when it comes to sexy time. Always good to squeeze in a little kegel work there, too. Too much information? hahahaha

  • I do all of the above :D

  • nice one man

  • These are all pretty good ones the ones I do are a bit more effective but but you need a couple pieces of equipment to use them, the ones you mentioned can be done almost anywhere.

  • you forgot hip raises, It can help tighten glutes and increase contraction intensity. control for women

  • Just do squats, deadlifts, bench press, pullups, overhead presses, and leg raises. Add cardio and you'll be great off for sex.

    • Lol thanks for your input sir

    • Was the sarcasm?

  • Or just have more sex. :D