My penis and testicles shrink to almost child size proportions while exercising

This happens does o blood going fro your junk to your head and lungs, being a cross-country runner for over 3 years I had this worry at first

The reason it happens is due to the blood flow which would usually go to your penis/testicles is being forced to other parts of your body that need it more during exercise. Olympic athletes maintain their size because they only run short distances and the blood has less time to come away from their package.

I just returned from a run and my penis is also smaller than normal. I think that is normal. I am just concerned with the guys that said it retracted....that I hope to never come across. Is it maybe that your penis is normally shorter in a flaccid state and that when blood moves to other parts the amount of shrinkage that normally happens makes you retract?

This sounds like it may be a circumcision issue. I am circumcised. A while back I started practicing underwater swimming where you basically undulate across the pool. My penis did not shrink- instead I found that skin was pulling up over it just exactly in place of my lost foreskin! By evolution, all the penises started with a retractable tube which, unfortunately, was stored inside a hole no different than a female's tube. That tube was a cloacal.

There's a technique called jelqing where you push blood and trap it down with pressure to, over time, lengthen the resting AND erect length, but I'd be careful. A vacuum tube does the same thing but I think more safely. Somehow certain people really retract. I have had times where my testicles actually completely change and become like they are scaled, pulled up close to my body.

I normally go 7 in. or above during erection. I practiced with a pump for the hell of it and went up over 8". Most of the time my flaccid length is maybe 3"/3.5, I have not actually measured it...

BUT I have gone swimming in the river, or simply been walking around and had it shrink way on up... One time, during an STD test with the metal insertion, I shrunk up to 1 inch! It was awful! It seems to be a nerve issue, probably from circumcision in my opinion. It's right up there with feeding it. The more good booty you get, the more blood flow it keeps.

Whatever the case, I'd be careful! There's a surgery done for elongation where they cut some of the connective tissue down there, I think the frenulum... but when it goes wrong you lose erectile potential!

Well, it's actually called the suspensory ligament.

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While exercising your body is in a fight or flight mode so it redirects blood to more vital organs like the heart and others that need to sustain more blood. That's why you can't get a boner while jogging. That's just my guess

It's perfectly natural. I think it's caused by factors including the body diverting blood flow to more important areas, and testosterone cycling as it should. Don't worry about it, it happens to most men.

Its called combat penis. They aint going as hard as you

The things some people worry about honestly...why is it a problem? Its just your ego guys. Relax for goodness sake.

I get this too. I don't have a big penis, but after exercising it shrinks massively!

I get massive shrinkage and I am uncut. My penis literally disappears back inside my body leaving just foreskin. I have noticed it on other guys in the showers too, but once they've handled it a bit, it seems to go back to normal. It happens every time I go swimming without fail - I come out with a kid sized penis!

Holy beejesus! This has ruined my life all my relationships. I've had hell right now still have such a complex that I been to scared to look this up in fear that someone get on whatever device I was on and see it. I just now grew the balls to do so because mine a literally doing the opposite. For the last 2 months its been painful to wear sometimes the slightest touch sends me through the roof. I've had back issues (scolosis), all my life and at this point in my life im not still at all. I look like a crackhead by the means of always moving my hips, pelvis shoulders neck and back in such manors to get something for a moment of relief. Well ive found myself pushing my butt out and kind of arching my pecks to my lower back in a down ward motion and best way to describe it is feels like one by one all down my spine everything pops in place and for a moment tension is relaxed. As im doing it my stomach automatically sucks in and upward and my entire package unit and all feels like they are being sucked in my pelvis like a jet turbine. Its very painful especially when one or both are tucked back past your pelvis and u never realized due to the constant pain and you go and sit down. OUCH! You just pinched all that inside you between your pelvic bone and pressure of having a seat. Dry eyes that is me on a daily basis anymore but Ive been developing allergies now for the last several years and dance between Claritin, zyrtec, benadryl, some generics for relief. Seems one will work and then stop so ill move on to the next. My penis in a steady basis is a resemblance of one thats uncircumcised and hiding between two balls that are hiding! Wtf! If i ever had a complex it's now. Not the time at all when I want this condition to worsen. Just to scratch the surface of this year of straight trail i have to first mention i have 4 boys with my ex wife and a daughter with now my ex girlfriend. Already hate myself, I promised myself i would never allow my children to experience anything that they have now been put through. So my 4 boys I've constantly struggled with finding bonding grounds and respecting my position and even wanting to actually apend one on one time rather than play wii or watch pokemon. I dont ever talk bad about thier mother or her family to them or around them other places is a whole new story. Just the opposite has been going on since the seperation. The questions and things that do and have come out of their mouths is obvious not to mention such complex words for such young ages. Well that battle and fighting for my rights even in the paperwork, has been very real! A huge burden on ny relationship with my daughter's mom who i had constant ridicule about because i never let her meet my boys untill we found out she was pregnant which was little over a year of seeing each other. The biys mom and grandma would drive by sit a littledown the street and spy on me and everytime they were dropped off it was hell getting screamed at about having a whorer in the house. Yes some of those times my ex was there but none of her dam buisness anymore she made her bed. Yet i would have my daughters mom just stay in bed and when she wanted to get up text me then i text her when i took the boys somewhere so she could sneek out .Found out he was pregnant and the way i introduced them was very slow. I would have her go to an aquatance house and then id show up with the boys later and she would just be someone there hanging out. Had her try to interact with them so i could see how they were. Then eventually broke thegirlfriend news then at like 6 or 7 months broke the news of a sister and the importance of big brothers for little girls. Well its been hell trying to do nothing but good given the entire situation and all women from these relationships have been something else. Well to end my 15' my dues needed paid, i had to sit 60 days for a dui from a year ago. My daughter's mom is now going to leave me because of it , its going to be so rough with her and our daughter a dog a home with an acre, back porch, one xar garge attached, a big shed, fire pit, hoise with everything one needs and much more. To try to convince her to stay i not only broke down and went and bought a washer because we've been doing he laundry mat thing since ours broke, and enough cash to pay for the month it was when i went in and the next 2months of bills, in full. So she left then came back and talked when i had 3 weeks to get out. She also had cleaned my pops house and he gave her 200 which ??? Yet i came out to being behind on bills she quit her job my 2nd week in . No money left and find that the washer was such an ordeal she got 100 back which was mine and thats gone to. Hmmmmmm shrug off i love my daughter and qould love to have one of my children in the same household. Now im biking 32miles a day to work, 16 there 16 back. Working 10 ro 12 hours a day plus donating roughly another 3 in travel time 5 days a week while shes snoring n bed everymorning when i get up and when i leave. When i get home if her abd our daughter are home its fat chance on having anything ready to eat. Dishes still constantly stacked to the ceiling until I did them. Then November comes along and on a friday 8 minutes before punchout at work i get the indefinite outcome ive been fearing but yet was very surprised and not even expecting it one bit with the way everyone was conducting themselves. Fired kept trying to pry for a clear justification and had my phone on record in my pocket. No dice though just continued to say seems like i dont want to work anymore. It was a constant answer for wth how dont i when i bike 3 hours a day 32 miles then come hear and work 10 to 12 hours a day. My fears were that this qould happen because of hearing talks that the front office didnt think id keep it up through the winter and wanted me to have someone trained (which was told he was hired to ne my helper. and they took my previuos one and put him on another crew), before they cut ties. A week later my pops died niw to just skip and sum it up.. Then daughters mom left me once didnt see daughter for 2 months then cameback. Then she finally git a job and then just git up and left again fir good. Again it was close to 3 months without daughter. Paid another sh*t ton of money and just a swift kick in the nuts. So much more but all leads to this . Darkest times ive ever experienced in 36 years of my life and ilived a good 8 or so behind bars, this year though. Ive never beenbso depressed nd no will dor life unless my kids are here. I was a fitness junkie and weight addict as far as was hitting them religiously nd sometimes find i just spent 4 hours at the gym. I was 268lbs. with 9% bodyfat. Its been 3 years since i routinely tiuched weights or any kind of workout. With the fact this year and still i find when i sit back and think about it I just went almost 4 days without eating. I now weigh 198lbs. and first time since 03' ive weighed under 200lbs. I hate looking at myself and my penis and commrades arenot making matters any better. All explanations aside there has to be steps and measures one can take to prevent , outweigh, manage, and subside some of theae ailments, atleast the pain. Def pms for men. I used to sweat like a nun in a w**** house now hot and cold flashes and coldness along with goose bumos all the time anymore. Feel like im always in a pool of cold water, downstairs. So bad all my life i javent been swimming since late 80's early 90s. Have almost roke down lately and tried allbtjese pillsadvertised or pump. Hell please help all of us someone.

I know I am commenting on an old topic but this is normal. When running, your using the hip-flexers and other muscles in the groin area. Top it off, your body at the groin will feel cool. your bodys tugging in the groin helps pull it in and the jewels usually come up, especially so when its cold. Dont let it bug you, it happens to almost every guy at one point or another. This includes the military. want to see super big penises with no or little penises? go to the shower in a military building after a long run in winter....

Hey guys, I'm 32, 270lb weight lifter. This happens to me all the time.
Its normal, and is caused by increased blood flow to the muscles you are working out. The size of the penis is completely controlled by blood flow. Even when flacid, the penis holds a lot of blood. When you work out or do any rigorous exercise, the brain redirects the flow of blood to the muslces that are being worked the hardest. Often, this means less blood ends up in the penis, and it shrinks. Also, less blood down in the groin region means cooler temperatures down there, which is why the scrotum pulls the testicles up toward the body, to keep the testicles at the right sperm producing temperature.

I think the embarrassment comes from showering with others after exercise with a penis that is tiny. Example would be after playing a football /soccer game. It gets back to normal size later but that's after everyone in the sports team has seen it!