Ride Your Way to Better Sex: How Cycling Can Promote Erectile Health

Regular cycling can significantly improve cardiovascular health, which in turn helps to support erectile function. However, take care to avoid certain missteps that can undo bicycling’s many health benefits. 

May is National Bike Month, an initiative of the League of American Bicyclists that was first observed in 1956. This makes it the perfect time to celebrate the many health benefits that regular cycling — outdoors or inside on a stationary bike– provides to its many enthusiasts in the United States and around the world.

The health benefits of cycling, according to the Better Health Channel of Australia’s Victoria State Government, include:

• Improved cardiovascular fitness
• Increased flexibility and muscle strength
• Improved joint mobility
• Reduced stress levels
• Better posture
• Stronger bones
• Decreased body fat
• Reduced anxiety and depression

Cardiovascular Benefits

As you can see, cycling’s cardiovascular benefits top the list, and as regular readers of this blog are aware, what’s good for the heart is also good for the penis. To work at optimal levels, both the heart and the penis rely on a robust flow of blood, and cycling helps to improve this vascular function.

A study published in a June 2019 issue of Nature Reviews Urology found that physical activity and lifestyle modification can have as profound an effect on erectile function as the PDE5 inhibitors prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction (ED).

Increases in Nitric Oxide Levels

The aforementioned study determined that physical activity, such as cycling:

• Increases nitric oxide
• Strengthens endothelial function
• Increases testosterone
• Improves positive body image
• Reduces stress and anxiety

The benefits of cycling seem endless, right? Well, ironically, cycling’s obvious benefits for erection health can be undermined if male cyclists fail to take certain precautions. Cycling for prolonged periods on narrow bike seats can place undue pressure on the nerves and blood vessels in the perineum, that area between the anus and the scrotum.

To avoid this hazard, Harvard Health Blog recommends the following steps:

• Pick a wide, well-padded seat over a narrow one
• Avoid tilting the bike seat upward as that increases pressure on the perineum
• Ensure that the seat is at the proper height
• Wear padded biking pants to further reduce perineal pressure
• Raise the handlebars to sit in a more upright position

Providing you take the precautions listed above, cycling can provide robust aerobic exercise that helps to promote strong erectile function.

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