“There is a lot of them in the new KIC Progressive Program,” Laura said.
“Maybe Steph sprinkled them in as a surprise!”
Social media users shared their own views on the matter, with some experiencing the same thing.
“As a pilates instructor, this will really make me wonder when doing ab work in class,” one social media user said.
“Also, a little jealous that this doesn’t happen to me ‘cause I’m sure I’d love my job even more so then.”
Another said: “The term thrown around is ‘coregasm’ for anyone wanting to research – I think the working hypothesis is stimulation of similar/local nerve endings.”
“THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT EXPERIENCED THIS SURPRISE (for me it was hanging leg lifts, the transverse abdominals get a little too excited during those),” another said.
One commiserated: “Why is the only thing I get to feel mid-workout pain?”
In 2012, researchers at Indiana University confirmed some women do experience orgasms while exercising, according to CBS News.
The phenomenon is often referred to as a “coregasm”, with the online surveys sent to 124 women between the age of 18 and 63 who had exercise-induced orgasms and an additional 246 women who said they experienced exercise-induced sexual pleasure.
Most had a partner, with 69 per cent revealing they were heterosexual.
“It may be that exercise – which is already known to have significant benefits to health and wellbeing – has the potential to enhance women’s sexual lives as well,” Debby Herbenick, co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at IU’s School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, said.
“The most common exercises associated with exercise-induced orgasm were abdominal exercises, climbing poles or ropes, biking/spinning and weightlifting,” Herbenick said.
“These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event, and they may also teach us more about the bodily processes underlying women’s experiences of orgasm.”
