{"id":15964,"date":"2021-04-14T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=15964"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:00:55","slug":"3-exercises-for-prostate-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/fitness\/3-exercises-for-prostate-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Exercises for Prostate Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily exercise is good for your heart and overall physical health. Doctors now encourage regular exercise to keep your prostate healthy. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inactivity and extra weight can lead to cancer. Men who exercise several times a week or work physically demanding jobs have an advantage and a lower risk of prostate cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Daily Kegels<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pay attention to your pelvic floor muscles by learning how to do Kegels. You should do three sets of 10 Kegels exercises every day and work up to 20.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How-to Steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lay on your back on the floor with your knees bent\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think about the muscles you use to stop your urine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Squeeze those muscles in your pelvic floor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hold anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relax your muscles<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Endurance exercises<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose an exercise that you enjoy that will get your oxygen flowing. Swimming is a great choice as are tennis, walking, and biking (use a gel seat).\u00a0 These exercises blast away calories and as a side benefit, improve your heart health.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Golf, basketball, gardening, and walking the stairs can contribute to over health and weight loss.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add one of the endurance exercises three times a week for 90 minutes to your schedule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Yoga poses<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoga is known to strengthen muscles and bones, develop flexibility and promote overall wellness. Yoga reduces your stress and can increase weight loss, all benefiting your prostate.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have a go at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bensnaturalhealth.com\/blog\/yoga-for-prostate-enlargement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cobbler\u2019s Pose<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for a start. Remember to breathe!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How-to Steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sit on the floor with legs extended in the front of you<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bend your knees and place the soles of your feet together<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hold your feet together with your hands<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lower your knees to the floor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hold this pose for a few minutes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walk your hands out in front of your legs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find the exercises you enjoy and boost your prostate resilience today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily exercise is good for your heart and overall physical health. Doctors now encourage regular exercise to keep your prostate healthy. Inactivity and extra weight can lead to cancer. Men who exercise several times a week or work physically demanding jobs have an advantage and a lower risk of prostate cancer.\u00a0 Daily Kegels Pay attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,806],"tags":[1254,1255,1256],"class_list":["post-15964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness","category-workout-routines","tag-endurance-exercises","tag-kegels","tag-yoga-poses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}