Step 01
It opens with questions
A minute of them, before any exercise. What you’re training for and what you’ve already tried are things a store listing was never going to ask.
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. So judge one the way you’d judge a coach, not a stopwatch. There are eight questions worth asking, and our own app fails two of them.
See my kegel planThe exercise was never the hard part. Five things separate a kegel exercise app you’re still using in week six from one that lasted a fortnight, and none of them is the interface.
None of the five is on a features tab. All five show up by the second week.
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 are things a store listing was never going to ask.
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, daily. Least impressive feature on the list, probably the one doing the most work. The sessions that get skipped are never the first ones.
Ours opens with a minute of questions. What comes back is the six-week program, already set up.
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. It just moves four jobs onto you.
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.
All eight can be answered from a store listing and a first screen — for a kegel app, a pelvic floor app, whatever the listing calls it — before anyone has your card.
Nobody deletes an app in week one. They delete it in week three.
A kegel is about thirty seconds of information. The other six weeks are the product, and most of them are a fight with your own calendar rather than with your pelvic floor.
The course sets six weeks as the floor because that’s how long any muscle takes to change, and it says so plainly: keep going for as long as it takes. What that asks of you is attendance, not strength, and attendance is the one part software can carry.
The course spends as many words on when not to squeeze as on how. Squeeze at every spare minute and what you train is a hair-trigger reflex, not a stronger floor. Contract too early and you sit at the edge building tension; too late and the reflex has already gone. A counter has no opinion about any of that — it can only agree that something happened.
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.
The course is blunt about this: just listening to it won’t do the trick, and stopping after the first results is the usual mistake. Software can get you to the session and hand you the day’s work; the ten minutes are still yours.
You can keep comparing, or you can start the six weeks. Only one of those gets shorter while you think about it.
From a survey of The Coach users who finished their first four weeks — the whole app, four weeks in, not a kegel-specific survey:
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. Sex is a skill most of us were never taught, and nobody learned it by comparing apps.
All eight questions, answered about our own kegel exercise app. Six we pass. 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: the best kegel app for men is whichever one survives all eight.
Clinical researchers, certified sex therapists and medical professionals, practising urologists among them — the people the program was built with. Names and credentials in full, because question eight only counts if you can check the answer.
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.
Nobody can answer that for you, us least of all — 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 something we cover separately.
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.
