Step 01
You answer, the plan sorts itself
What’s happening now: how your erections behave, what you’ve already tried, how tense things feel. That’s what decides whether you start with relaxation or with strength.
Five exercises for erectile dysfunction actually earn the name: pelvic floor stretching, contractions, box breathing, getting comfortable with a soft penis, and letting an erection go on purpose to bring it back. Most men only ever do the second. Which one comes first depends on which pelvic floor you have — tense or weak — and that fork is the part most lists skip.
Get my exercise planAn erection is a mechanical event with a nervous system attached to it. So there’s no single exercise for it. The erection exercises that actually do something fall into four jobs, and one rule decides which of them you start with.
Everything below is one of those four jobs. One line before any of it: if you can’t get an erection under any circumstances, start with a doctor, because that pattern is medical until someone rules it out.
The Coach turns the exercises above into a sequence your answers set, guided one at a time, and asks ten to twenty minutes a day for it.
Step 01
What’s happening now: how your erections behave, what you’ve already tried, how tense things feel. That’s what decides whether you start with relaxation or with strength.
Step 02
Each one arrives with its guidance attached, so you’re counting a hold instead of wondering whether you’re doing it right.
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That’s the window most men notice a first change in, and the pelvic floor is a muscle: it answers on a muscle’s timetable, not the one you’d like. It’s training rather than treatment, and it doesn’t replace a doctor when the cause is medical.
The plan asks how your erections behave and how tense things feel, then hands back the five in the order that answer implies. The sorting is the part reading can’t do for you.
Kegel exercises for erectile dysfunction are where every list starts, and they’re the ones most men get wrong in the same three ways. The course names all three, and the third is why the list runs past kegels.
Laid out from the most mechanical to the most psychological. What’s missing from each one is the schedule — how often and how long is what the plan works out from your answers.
One exercise, done harder, was never the missing piece.
Four jobs, four different mechanisms. That’s why exercises to improve erections don’t substitute for one another, and why doing all four isn’t overkill.
When you’re aroused, blood flows in and the veins in the outer sheath of the penis are pressed shut so the blood stays there. The pelvic floor is part of that press — it’s the valve, and the one part of the press you can train. That’s the mechanical truth behind exercises for stronger erections: train the valve and it closes harder. Leave it, and the blood arrives and quietly leaves again.
Fight-or-flight sends blood to your arms and legs, which is the wrong address. Breathing drills, the senses exercise and the body scan all do one job: getting the body back into the state where arousal is possible at all.
Calm exposure to a soft penis replaces the association your brain has built between softness and failure. Practising the loss and return of an erection on purpose teaches you what no reassurance can: it comes back.
Performance pressure is a voice with a script, and it writes the same one every time. Naming it and building a second voice that answers back is what stops one wobble setting the tone for the next three months.
Left to yourself, you’d run the contractions and quietly drop the rest. A plan keeps the other three jobs in play, and moves the order when your answers change.
From a survey of The Coach users who finished their first four weeks:
Reviews from real users, quoted as written.
“This app is just what I needed when my confidence was at an all time low. I felt stressed and completely lost all interest to the point where I struggled to get it up. But then I took a chance on this app. Daily listening and going through the exercises sometimes even half-mindedly. Well! Let’s just say she definitely noticed the change and now can’t seem to get enough of it 😁👍”
“I like the multi-facetted approach including other exercises, not just kegels, as well as considering mental & emotional issues. I tried another app that was ok, but it focused on kegels. This app has helped me make progress in a few ways & has me on a road to keep my abilities long into the future.”
“The guided exercises are well-designed, and the app does a great job of tracking progress and keeping you motivated. If you’re serious about improving your sexual wellness and pelvic floor strength, I highly recommend The Coach.”
“The Coach is not only about kegel exercise but is a complete package and includes psychological , emotional and physical exercise as well and this has improved my wellbeing in all these areas.”
What they had was a session waiting for them each day, already chosen. That’s the difference between this and a list you read once.
Pelvic floor work is invisible from the outside, which is why men quit it. These are the signals that arrive before anything changes in bed, roughly in the order they arrive.
We built the program with urologists, endocrinologists, and AASECT-certified sex therapists who have helped thousands of men.
Gerard Greene
Specialist men's health physiotherapist and senior lecturer at Coventry University.
Dr. Susie Gronski
Licensed physical therapist, certified sexuality counselor, and founder of a men's pelvic health clinic.
Natalie Goldberg
Certified sex and family therapist dedicated to improving intimate relationships and personal well-being.
Dr. Amy Pearlman
Board-certified urologist specializing in male sexual wellness, performance, and hormonal health.
Dr. Justin Houman
MD, UCLA-trained urologist and male reproductive specialist focusing on sexual health.
Cameron Fraser
Australia's leading men's sex coach, specializing in male sexual wellness and performance.
Ben Greenfield
13-time Ironman triathlete, bestselling author, and recognized expert in health, fitness, and performance.
Dr. Gary Shlifer
DO, board-certified internal medicine physician specializing in preventative care, nutrition, and anti-aging.
There isn’t one — the best exercises for erectile dysfunction come as a set, and anyone who names a single one is guessing. Pelvic floor contractions have the most direct mechanical link to an erection, which is why every list leads with them, and on their own they still leave the nervous system untouched. But they’re not where you start: the stretch comes first, and on a tense pelvic floor it’s the whole opening stage. Best is the wrong question. First is the right one, and the answer changes with the floor you’ve got.
Kegels for ED work for some men, for a while. The program’s own list of common mistakes ends with this one: doing only kegels and skipping the breathing and meditation work. Contractions build the muscle that keeps blood where it is. They do nothing about the alert state that stops blood arriving in the first place.
Mental exercises for erectile dysfunction do a specific, physical thing. When your body treats sex as a threat it routes blood to the limbs, which is the opposite of what an erection needs. Breathing drills, a five-senses reset and a body scan are the tools that switch that off, and the work on your inner critic is what stops the threat forming in the first place.
Fewer than the internet suggests and more than one. The program runs a small set at any given time, at frequencies it sets from your answers, and brings the next exercise in as the weeks go. Load all five in on day one and you’ll be doing none of them by the end of the month.
Relaxation and stretching first, with the strength work added as the tension settles — contractions on an already-tense pelvic floor are the wrong first move. This is the most consequential fork here, and it’s the first thing the plan asks about. If the tension comes with pain — sitting, urinating, ejaculating — that’s a men’s health physiotherapist’s job before it’s an app’s.
Yes — that’s the half they were built for. The exercises to help with erectile dysfunction that’s mostly psychological are the four that never touch the muscle: the breathing, the five senses, the body scan and the soft practice. They’re on the list because most erection problems have a psychological component, and a stronger pelvic floor does nothing about a brain that has decided sex is a threat. Which half you’re dealing with is worth the longer read on erectile dysfunction before you pick.
Two ways, and both come down to choosing the wrong pelvic floor exercises for ED. Training a pelvic floor that’s already too tense adds tension to a muscle whose whole problem is that it won’t let go. And treating it as a muscle that needs no rest days is how a month of hard work goes backwards. The signal in both cases is pain — during the training or after it — and pain is where this stops being a training question.
General fitness is good for you for every other reason, and cardiovascular health sits underneath erections — but none of it is what this program trains, and none of the five ED exercises above needs a gym, a mat or equipment. The stretching is done lying down, the contractions are invisible, and the breathing work needs a quiet few minutes.
Exercises for better erections work on their own schedule, not yours: the first noticeable results usually arrive in four to six weeks of consistent work. Many men feel the muscle change sooner than they see anything change in bed. That’s normal, and it’s the right order for it to happen in.
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The exercises above as guided daily sessions, in a sequence built from your answers. The lessons that explain what each one is for. And the mind work, running alongside the muscle work rather than instead of it. The app is paid.
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.
