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10-07-2008, 03:48 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | |  Do certain parts of your body ever go numb whille working out ?
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Do certain parts of your body ever go numb whille working out ? I havent hit the gym in over a year and I just picked it up again the other day. Well today I had a truly desturbing expirence, my genitles went completely numb whille I was finishing up on the exercise bike. Is this normal ?
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10-07-2008, 03:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | No. I adopt a proper seating position. If I fail to do so at the beginning, I correct the situation as soon as I feel it.
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10-07-2008, 03:55 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Pretty common thing. Like LA said. Seat. However, riding a stationary bike in a gym is a crime when you live at the foot of some of the best mountain biking around.  |
10-07-2008, 03:57 PM
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10-07-2008, 03:58 PM
| | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | My backside is fine on the seat its just my hardware that seems to suffer on the bike. 
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10-07-2008, 04:00 PM
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Brownchicken Browncow | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | | your compressing the artery that provides blood to your genitals.
now if i could only figure out why my nuts go numb sometimes when benchpressing.
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10-07-2008, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: England | | | I've never gone numb but I've seen stars after a heavy set before. |
10-07-2008, 04:02 PM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | Bad seat and/or bad position on the bike will do this. With gym bikes there's not a lot you can usually do about the seat itself, but try sitting further forward or back, and/or try raising or lowering the seat height until you find a sweet spot. Numb junk is bad. |
10-07-2008, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by EricF Numb junk. | Awesome band name!!! 
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10-07-2008, 04:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | I'm not an expert, but when the good parts go numb during exercise, I think the response should be, like that doctor joke:
"Don't do that." 
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10-07-2008, 04:08 PM
| | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SBassman I'm not an expert, but when the good parts go numb during exercise, I think the response should be, like that doctor joke:
"Don't do that." | I guess that will inspire me to run more then bike !
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10-07-2008, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL Do certain parts of your body ever go numb whille working out ? I havent hit the gym in over a year and I just picked it up again the other day. Well today I had a truly desturbing expirence, my genitles went completely numb whille I was finishing up on the exercise bike. Is this normal ? | Bleh
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10-08-2008, 08:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL Do certain parts of your body ever go numb whille working out ? I havent hit the gym in over a year and I just picked it up again the other day. Well today I had a truly desturbing expirence, my genitles went completely numb whille I was finishing up on the exercise bike. Is this normal ? | somewhat, you're not the 1st to report that. try changing your seating postion a bit.
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10-08-2008, 08:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | That used to happen to me when I was riding a lot. I used to stand up in the saddle occasionally to prevent that from happening, but once I did so after my junk numbed up, and the resulting sensation of the area "waking up" made me fall off. 
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10-08-2008, 09:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Madison, WI | | | before i switched to using the elliptical machines i would always use the recumbant bikes. much more comfortable for me
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10-08-2008, 09:16 AM
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how do you know that they went numb if you can't feel them?
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10-08-2008, 10:12 AM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | Yep, I used to experience it on my roadbike. It's because the saddle is pressing on the nerves and blood vessels running through the part of your pelvis between your penis and the anus.
A saddle with a hole in it can solve this problem, or a saddle broad enough that it supports your sit bones, so there's no pressure on that area.
link: http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/numbpenis.html |
10-08-2008, 10:45 AM
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10-08-2008, 10:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EricF Bad seat and/or bad position on the bike will do this. With gym bikes there's not a lot you can usually do about the seat itself, but try sitting further forward or back, and/or try raising or lowering the seat height until you find a sweet spot. Numb junk is bad. | I used to experience this on my road bike whenever I was in the drops, so I went with a seat like this and it worked much better. Although, it took me a while to find shorts that were comfortable for the more narrow saddle. 
Typically, most gyms have the "tractor seat". I'd guess you're leaning forward and putting most of your weight on the "love vein". I'd think you should be fine if you straighten out your back and don't lean forward. The seat is probably too high, too. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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