Bikes And Balls

If you’ve ever ridden a bike, you’ve felt uncomfortable in the crotch area, but you’ve been able to handle it. Until you go numb or get all tingly down there, that is. When men ride a bike, there is a natural tendency to place a lot of the body’s weight on the buttocks area, helping us stay on the bike and partly control our motion. This is specially true for bike riders competing at a professional level, who use the seat’s nose to control their speed and movement harmony while racing.
That tingling sensation and numbness of the groin are the first signs of a bigger issue. The area between the testicles and the anus, called the perineum, on which most of our weight rests upon while riding a bike also serves as main passage for the arteries and nerves of the penis. This penile wiring is essential for proper functioning of the penis, and that includes erections. In the case of excessive and prolonged pressing of said passage, riders can suffer from erectile dysfunction.

Proper gear and positioning has been highly recommended in order to avoid the condition from taking place. Proper sitting that gives more support on the buttocks wide sides than down the center sporting no nose have been recommended and proven to work. However, professional bike racers have said no to nose-less seats for performance reasons. Narrower seats with a protruding nose help bikers take control of the bike and regulate speed and other important factors during a race. Apparently, there will always be ED among cycling professional racers.

Because the weight that is put on the perineum and the pressure that is inflicted upon by a nosed narrower seat, blood flow to the penis is temporarily cut off, causing the biker to suffer from temporary erectile dysfunction. Men who ride their bikes for extended periods ought to make resting stops in order to restore circulation or well practice different riding techniques like riding on your feet without sitting, or riding sitting on the farther part of the seat, where it is wider and causes less pressure.

The truth is no doctor will ever tell you no to ride a bike under the pretext that you will get erectile dysfunction. Exercising is highly recommended to prevent heart disease and other conditions that are known to be top erectile dysfunction causes. The difference with ED from riding a bike is that the first are permanent, ED from biking is temporary and reversible in most cases.

Your doctor may recommend ED medication like generic Viagra, but the first advice all of those knowledgeable in the matter offer is resting. Men who ride more than three hours a day, three days a week have shown to present more cases. Try to combine bike riding with other kinds of exercise so that your groin won’t take the hardest blow. Excercise, any kind, is always encouraged. You just have to know how much of what kind of exercise you are safe to practice.

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