5 Christmas-Themed Sex Positions to Try These Holidays

Festive sex positions to turn up the heat in the bedroom.

Christmas can be frustrating for many women. For younger or childless women, this could be because they spend Christmas with their parents rather than with their romantic partners.

Christmas brings a lot of work and expectations, organizing and wrapping gifts, redecorating the house, preparing special dishes and perhaps designing Christmas cards.

Whether it’s stress from last-minute gift shopping or from excessive food and alcohol consumption, interest in sex wanes in the run-up to Christmas.

However, experts suggest that physical exercises builds sexual connection because the dopamine and other chemicals in the brain are directly linked to physical attraction and romantic passion.

I have put together 5 exercises guaranteed to turn-up your sexual arousal. These intimate exercises will literally boost your libido— and give you a real workout while you’re at it.

1. Small leg lift boost your heart rate and blood pressure

A strong core protects your spine, reduces the risk of injury, improves body control and helps you to stand longer. These benefits are of course carried over to the bedroom.

The simple act of palpating your legs up and down an inch in the air for a good number of reps helps build your core endurance, which can help with almost any bedroom activity.

How to do small lifts

• Lie on your back with your legs straight and your arms at your sides.
• Press your lower back into the floor to protect your spine, then secure the quads and squeeze the thighs.
• Continue to press your lower back to the floor and exhale while lifting your legs 45 degrees.
• Inhale as you slowly lower your legs until the feet float above the ground. Repeat. Try 10 reps.

2. Build strength with Jumping squat

Cardiovascular exercises that use the lower body will increase blood flow to the pelvis.

Good blood flow is essential in the response to orgasm because the clitoris is 50 to 300 percent engorged.

Jumping squats work your glutes and core making you feel more stable and powerful, especially for standing sex positions.

How to do a jumping squat

• Stand with your feet hip-width apart and toes pointed. Tighten your core by pulling the belly button towards the spine.
• Keeping a high chest, squat down by sitting with the hips back and bending the knees.
• When you touch the bottom of your squat, immediately lift your feet off the floor while extending your hips.
• Land with flexible knees and feet in a squat position and immediately proceed to a second rep.
• Try 20 reps.

3. Kegel exercises strengthens the pelvic floor

The simplest way to explain this is Strong pelvic floors equals stronger orgasms (at least according to a small 2010 study that suggests that orgasm and arousal are linked to better pelvic floor function).

Kegel is a contraction and relaxation of the pelvic floor. Most people don’t do the second and essential part of the movement.

To do a Kegel effectively (and without damaging your pelvic floor), it’s best to see if you can do a Kegel at all.

The next time you use the bathroom, try to stop your urine stream and then start it again. If you can, congratulations — you just did a Kegel.

Otherwise, I suggest you work with a pelvic floor specialist, who can teach you how to properly activate these muscles.

How to do it

• Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet on the floor.
• Engage your pelvic floor muscles as if your vagina or penis were sipping a smoothie through a straw. (This crazy signal helps tighten and lift the pelvic floor muscles instead of just squeezing them.)
• Release and repeat. Aim for 25 reps (or push-ups, if you want).

4. Hip thrust for glutes muscles

Calling all anal enthusiasts and anal curious! Being able to squeeze and relax your glutes and anal sphincter can help prepare your body for anal penetration and make it more pleasant when it happens.

Hip thrusts work activates your bedroom muscles: your core and glutes. Doing them makes your thrusts more powerful.

How to do a hip thrust

• Sit on the floor with your knees bent, shoulder blades against a box or bench and feet flat on the floor.
• Keeping your chin in and your eyes forward, press the feet and engage the glutes to push your hips into the air.
• Continue to raise the hips until your body forms a straight line from the knees to the nose.
• Squeeze your glutes at the top. Hold for at least 3 seconds.
• Bend the hips to bring the buttocks back to the floor.
• Complete 25 reps.

5. Lizard pose for hips flexibility

Hip flexibility gives you access to a wide variety of potentially enjoyable sex positions.

Hip stretches are important, but if your pelvic floor is too tight, you may want to try restorative yoga instead of doing a few stretches here and there in your routine.

While it’s not the only way to help people lengthen tense PC muscles, yoga can be a great way to lower the central nervous system and release tension.

Lizard Pose can help increase hip flexibility, which you can do before any physical activity, including sex.

How to do lizard pose

• Start on all fours with your hands under your shoulders and your knees under your hips.
• Press your palms down to return to a downward-facing dog position.
• Bring your left foot to the outside of your left hand and bend your knee 90 degrees.
• Slowly sink into your hips, but make sure that your knee remains at a 90-degree angle.
• Hold for at least a minute on each side, breathe in and out deeply.

Thank you for reading. Consider subscribing for unlimited access to more stories on health and relationships.