Step 01
It opens with questions
A minute of them, before any exercise. What you’re training for and what you’ve already tried is the part a store listing was never going to ask you.
Kegels are simple. Doing them on the fourteenth day is the part that decides anything, and that’s the job you’re handing to an app. Here are the eight things worth checking before you install one, how The Coach answers each, and the two answers that are a no. A minute of questions is what ours asks for first.
See my kegel planThe exercise was never the hard part. Five things separate an app you’ll still be opening in a month from one you delete, and none of them is the interface.
Below, those five turn into eight questions you can answer from a store listing and a first screen, before anyone has your card.
The kegel program lives in the Program tab, under Male Health → Boost performance → Kegel exercises. Three things happen once you’re in it.
Step 01
A minute of them, before any exercise. What you’re training for and what you’ve already tried is the part a store listing was never going to ask you.
Step 02
The day’s kegel work arrives as guided audio: when to contract, how long to hold, when to release. Ten minutes, and none of it is yours to remember.
Step 03
The app sends them. Least impressive feature on the page, probably the one doing the most work. Nobody quits kegels on day two.
Ours opens with a minute of questions. What comes back is the six-week program, already set up.
This belongs near the top, not buried at the bottom. Kegels need no equipment, no software and nobody’s subscription. A phone timer and a line in your calendar will run the whole thing, and for some men that genuinely is the answer. Here’s what you take on yourself if you go that way.
That doesn’t make a timer wrong. It makes it the right tool for a man who already knows the exercise and doesn’t need reminding — and if that’s you, close the tab and go do a set.
Two questions under each of the first three principles above, one under each of the last two. All eight are answerable from a store listing and a first screen. Take them to whatever you’re considering, this app included.
Nobody deletes an app in week one. They delete it in week three.
A kegel is about thirty seconds of information. Everything else an app does is about the six weeks that follow.
Six weeks is a bare minimum for any change in muscle strength — that is the course’s own wording, not a softened version of it — and six in ten men report significant improvements after that long. Both halves of that sentence rest on the same thing, which is turning up. Software that fixes attendance is doing the heavy work.
Intensity, duration, the number of reps and sets, and whether the contraction went where you meant it to. Those are the four the course names, and a counter has an opinion on none of them.
You can’t feel a pelvic floor getting stronger the way you feel a bicep. With nothing scheduling the change, you’ll either sit at too-easy for six weeks or push too hard early and stop.
Relaxation, breathing and arousal control sit beside the pelvic floor in the course, which says plainly that kegels aren’t the only thing you need. An app scoped to contractions has scoped out three quarters of it.
The six weeks, the daily sessions and the reminders arrive already set up. What it asks of you first is about a minute.
From a survey of The Coach users who finished their first four weeks:
Real reviews, quoted as written and trimmed only where they ran long.
“This app has been so helpful. I’ve used Kegel apps before but none explained the reasoning and how to use the kegel exercise as clearly as The Coach app.”
“I wasn’t sure what to expect from the app but the videos are information is legit and goes into detail. The kegel exercises and timer make it a serious workout that you want to do and it helps!”
“Great app. The lessons and exercises are well-explained and laid out. Easy to navigate and stay on track. The options for lessons are varied too and hit multiple areas. Tried other apps and this one is by far the best.”
“The Coach is a well-designed and easy-to-use app that really focuses on improving men’s health in a practical way. The exercises are clearly explained, the programs are structured, and the daily reminders help stay consistent.”
Every one of them had the same choice open in another tab. What settled it was using one, not reading about it.
All eight questions, answered about our own app. Six are the reason this page exists. Two are a no, and they’re the ones worth reading if you’re deciding today.
That’s the scorecard, two noes included. Run the same eight past anything else you’re weighing up — a good app should survive them.
We built the program with urologists, endocrinologists, and AASECT-certified sex therapists who have helped thousands of men.
Dr. Justin Houman
MD, UCLA-trained urologist and male reproductive specialist focusing on sexual health.
Dr. Susie Gronski
Licensed physical therapist, certified sexuality counselor, and founder of a men's pelvic health clinic.
Cameron Fraser
Australia's leading men's sex coach, specializing in male sexual wellness and performance.
Dr. Amy Pearlman
Board-certified urologist specializing in male sexual wellness, performance, and hormonal health.
Gerard Greene
Specialist men's health physiotherapist and senior lecturer at Coventry University.
Natalie Goldberg
Certified sex and family therapist dedicated to improving intimate relationships and personal well-being.
Dr. Paula Hall
Accredited sexual and relationship psychotherapist, registered with leading professional bodies in psychotherapy.
Dr. Justin Lehmiller
PhD in social psychology and senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute.
No page can answer that for you, including this one — we make one of the apps. What we can hand over is the standard: a stated program length, something telling you how hard to squeeze and when to rest, a difficulty that moves, ten minutes and not an hour, coverage of the work that isn’t contractions, and a name attached to all of it. Score whatever you’re looking at against those eight questions. Ours scores six of them, and the section above says which two it doesn’t.
No. A phone timer runs the exercise perfectly well, and if you already know how a rep is done and you’re reliable about it, that’s a complete answer. What an app is for is the six weeks after the novelty wears off: the guidance, the reminder on the day you’d skip, and the rest of the method sitting next to the muscle work.
Not directly, and any app that implies otherwise is overselling. Nothing on your phone can see which muscle you contracted. What guided audio does is remove the other reasons a rep goes wrong — squeezing too briefly, too weakly, or with no idea how many you’ve done.
It helps a great deal, and it takes about five minutes to learn. An app can run a program for you; it can’t teach you the movement from scratch while simultaneously counting it.
Same muscle, different word on the store listing. “Kegel” names the exercise and “pelvic floor” names what it trains, and apps use whichever their audience searches for. Where that muscle sits and how to find it is a page of its own.
The Coach is paid. What that buys is the six-week kegel program with guided audio on each session, the reminders, and the rest of the men’s health library around it — the breathing, relaxation and arousal-control material the course puts beside the muscle work.
Six weeks, ten minutes a day. The course is careful with that number: six weeks is described as a bare minimum for seeing a change in any muscle’s strength, not as a finish line. Six in ten men report significant improvements after that long.
They add resistance, and added resistance is a real technique and not a gimmick. The Coach doesn’t sell or pair with one, so if hardware is what you want, this isn’t the product. Nothing here needs equipment: the exercise is invisible from the outside and you can do it sitting down.
Depends what you’ve been doing. Most men who’ve “been doing kegels for years” have been squeezing at odd moments with no intensity target, no hold time and no rest — which is the exact pattern the course lists as a mistake. A program mostly changes how you do them, not whether you do them.
It’s audio and a phone. Nothing gets delivered, nothing needs a room to yourself, and a session works with headphones anywhere you can sit still for ten minutes.
Yes. You manage the subscription in your App Store or Google Play account and can cancel there at any point.
Two ways. Email support@the.coach and a real person on our team gets back to you — usually within a day. Or open the app, go to the Today tab, tap your profile, and hit Support. Both land with the same people.
