Women’s health expert issues stark warning about popular exercise that can RUIN your sex life

Kegel exercises have been around for decades, but they’re as popular as ever thanks to TikTok, with women all across the globe using them to strengthen their pelvic floor muscles.

But according to a women’s health expert, doing too many kegels can have a negative impact on your sex life. 

Sarah Percy, the director of Female Physio Co. and a Women’s Health Physiotherapist, spoke exclusively with DailyMail.com about how kegels truly affect the body. 

She explained that kegals are exercises that involve the ‘contraction of your pelvic floor.’

And while they have many health benefits, doing too many will cause your pelvic floor to be too tight and can make sex painful.

‘When you contract, you’re stopping the flow of wind and waste, and then sort of lifting up, like you’re imagining you’re lifting up a tampon internally,’ dished the expert.

‘It will close the three sphincters in females, and then close the two sphincters in males. 

‘It will close the holes and keep us continent so we’re not walking around leaking urine, wind, and feces.

Women’s health expert Sarah Percy spoke to DailyMail.com about how kegel exercises effect the body… and why too many can negatively impact your sex life

She explained that kegals are exercises that involve the ‘contraction of your pelvic floor’ (stock image)

‘When you’re squeezing your pelvic floor, it just helps to strengthen that area down there, because as we get older, as we go through life changes like childbirth and menopause, it can weaken.’

She explained that kegels have an added sex benefit.

‘The stronger your pelvic floor, the stronger an orgasm will be as well,’ Sarah continued.

‘It helps to increase the blood flow down there as well. It helps to increase core strength. 

‘So the stronger your pelvic floor is, the stronger your core will be, which can minimize things like back pain as well.’

Despite all of the advantages kegels can have for both women’s and men’s bodies, Sarah shocked DailyMail.com with her next statement – doing too many can totally backfire.

‘The pelvic floor, yes, it can be super weak, but it can also be really tight, and too tight,’ she revealed.

‘If you do too many when you’re already too tight, you might get even tighter and therefore might struggle even more with pelvic pain, back pain, and pain with sex. 

While they have many health benefits, she warned that doing too many kegels will cause your pelvic floor to be too tight and can make sex painful

‘If your muscles are already on, then if you keep turning on even more, they’re going to get more like more high tone, which means tighter. And then your brain can’t figure out how to relax the muscles. 

‘Over time, you’re just walking around with a really tight pelvic floor, which can actually lead to things like intense period pain, abdominal cramping around your period throughout the cycle. 

‘You can experience things like pain with sex, pain, putting tampons in pain, menstrual cups. That’s a whole other area of pelvic health, and we see that a lot with our pelvic health conditions.

‘Pelvic pain conditions like endometriosis, adenomyosis, vulvodynia, vaginismus — we have a lot of those conditions coming to the clinic.

‘But the big one is pain with sex, whether it’s superficial pain at the entrance and you can’t get in, or it’s a deep pain, or it could be both.’

If you are an avid TikToker, you may have come across one of Sarah’s daily pelvic floor exercise videos on your For You page.

The physiotherapist, who hails from Australia, has gone viral on social media for her kegel videos amassing almost 11 million likes and 853,000 followers on TikTok under her username @femalephysioco.