Good Exercise

Teenagers Exercise
Exercise is not only safe and acceptable for teen-agers, it is also integral to gaining health benefits that can last a lifetime. Problems that can arise from exercise are more commonly related to environmental stresses such as dehydration and heat-related illnesses.

Women Excercise

Kegel Exercises
Kegel exercises are simple, easy-to-do workout schedules to strengthen the muscles of the pelvic floor to improve vaginal, urinary and rectal control. The two sets of muscles groups that surround the vagina, urethra and rectum constitute the pelvic floor. They hold the pelvic organs, uterus and bladder in place. One of the muscles is the pubococcygeal, or PC, muscle. It is a thick, U-shaped band that is attached to the outside walls of the vagina and passes behind the rectum. The PC muscle runs from the pubic bone at the front of the pelvis to the coccyx, or tail bone, at the back. It is this muscle that is strengthened during Kegel exercises.

Reasons for weakening of the muscle
The most common reason for the PC muscle to weaken in childbirth. Other factors are: aging, menopausal loss of estrogen, chronic abdominal pressure due to lung disease or heavy lifting, connective tissue disease and nerve damage due to injury.
When the PC muscle weakens, a woman can develop urinary and stool incontinency, inability to control bladder or bowel. A weakened PC muscle can also lead to decreased sexual pleasure, poor muscle control during childbirth, or in extreme conditions genital prolapse, where the bladder, rectum or uterus moves into the vagina.
Kegel exercises improve these conditions if they have been caused because of a weak PC muscle. But there could be several other factors involved in bringing out the above abnormalities. They range from emotional disorder, infection, inflammation to injury. These exercises also help women suffering from urinary incontinence, especially the urge incontinence in which a person is unable to hold back the strong urge to urinate.

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