| The greatest source of discomfort for cyclists is the | | | | Similar designs are available from The Solution Bicycle |
| nose of their bike seat pressing on nerves and soft | | | | Seat, Easyseat, Spongywonder and Spiderflex brands. |
| tissues. For men, this pain brings the additional worry of | | | | The Seat is wide enough to allow me to put my |
| impotence. Impotence is caused by nerve and artery | | | | weight on the sitz bones of my pelvis instead of my |
| damage. Exercising regularly helps to keep arteries | | | | crotch. I never suffer numbness and don't worry about |
| healthy, so bicycling helps prevent impotence, as long | | | | impotence, but it doesn't work for everyone. Racers |
| as it does not damage the local arteries and | | | | need to have a bicycle seat nose between their legs |
| nerves.Recent studies show that three percent of | | | | to help control the bicycle with their legs, but if you |
| regular male bicycle riders become impotent, and | | | | have no need to ride with both hands off the handle |
| virtually all of them felt pain or numbness before the | | | | bars at the same time, you should be able to use a |
| problem occurred. When a nerve is pinched or the | | | | nose-less seat. Nose-less seats force you to bend |
| blood supply is shut off to the penis, a man feels numb. | | | | forward. To keep yourself from falling, you have to |
| Men who ride with conventional bicycle seats and do | | | | hold yourself up on your handlebars. This puts a lot of |
| not feel numb are not likely to be at risk. If you feel no | | | | pressure on your shoulders arms and hands, so you |
| discomfort when you ride, keep on riding and stop | | | | must strengthen your upper body and change |
| worrying. If you feel numbness, get a new seat.Half of | | | | positions often.Other tips for comfort in a bicycle seat |
| the penis is inside the body and the main blood supply | | | | include:1) Avoid seats with excessive padding. The |
| comes from the area just behind the scrotum and in | | | | greater the padding, the deeper you sink into the |
| front of the rectum. So bicycle seats that press on | | | | saddle and the more likely you are to feel numbness.2) |
| that area can cause impotence, while those that do | | | | Use gel saddles. They are not too hard and not too |
| not have a nose and have a widened area to hold | | | | soft.3) Never tilt the saddle nose upward. The seat |
| your weight on your sitz bones should prevent the | | | | should be level or angle downward slightly.4) Set your |
| problem. Some entrepreneurs developed seats that | | | | handlebars higher so that you do not have to bend |
| have holes in the middle. Their theory is that if there is | | | | forward. The lower you bend, the greater the pressure |
| no pressure behind the scrotum, there will be no | | | | on your perineum.5) Ride a more upright position. |
| numbness. However, no good studies show that these | | | | However, this increases wind resistance and will slow |
| seats prevent numbness and therefore prevent | | | | you down.6) Change positions often as you ride.7) |
| impotence, because the nose in front of the hole still | | | | Wear thin padding in your pants. Most good bicycle |
| exerts pressure on the nerves and arteries. They may | | | | pants come with form-fitted chamois padding.Read my |
| make the problem worse because the pressure on an | | | | Good Food Book FREE, with 100 healthful recipes.Dr. |
| area increases as an area deceases. Making a hole in | | | | Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 |
| the middle decreases the surface area of the saddle | | | | years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; |
| and therefore increases the pressure on the arteries | | | | he is board certified in four specialties, including sports |
| and nerves.The best way to avoid pressure on the | | | | medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and |
| arteries that carry blood to the penis is to use a saddle | | | | health reports at weekly newsletter on fitness, health, |
| without any nose. I use a rectangular-shaped seat with | | | | and nutrition. |
| rounded edges in the front, called The Seat by Ergo. | | | | |