Will working out improve your sex life?
Posted on 25. Feb, 2007 in Friends & Sex
Visiting a nearby gym on a daily basis may seem a really good idea if you want to improve your shape. You are supposed become more energetic and fit that will benefit your sex life. But can you say it for sure that putting all your energy in working-out is going to make a change in intimate matters?
Great body image- more sex?
In fact, we need to clear out the true reasons for choosing to spend a pastime on fitness with “improving your sex” in mind. Many women and men go in for sports thinking that it will help them have more success among the opposite sex thus increasing their chances of maintaining good sexual relationships.
Their work-out interest results from dissatisfaction with their own body shape (“too fat, too skinny-and thus less sexually attractive”). This may really have sense, but for one detail. Sex appeal has not so much to do with the pure body image but more with the way you present yourself. When you don’t feel yourself as sexy, others hardly believe you are. So if you expect to have desired result – your efforts on working out should be channeled both ways- working out on your body and your mind.
Though when everything is good with your self-esteem and you feel that sports make you feel more flexible, vigorous and loose, you can surely say that working out boosts your sexual performance.
Abstinence: benefits or downsides for your body?
A common practice among some sport enthusiasts is to abstain from sex in order to feel “tensed up enough” to let steam off later. A wide-spread belief is that some amount of testosterone hormone, which is both responsible for aggressive behavior and promotes sexual activity, should not be wasted on the latter but rather accumulated for working out. But is it really so?
As a matter of fact a whole number of hormones, (PEA, oxytocin, dopamine) that are released during orgasm result in feelings of happiness and enjoyment as well as relaxation. And when we are satisfied and contented we usually have less motivation to make efforts. This is probably one point for temporary abstinence in favor of better work-outs.
But think it otherwise – lack of sex doesn’t contribute to good concentration, sound sleep and strong immune system- which in its turn may rather interfere with good working out. For those who feel this lack really acute, their sport activity may suffer.
There is also another way how working-out goes hand in hand with sex. In case when abstinence from sexual activity is not free but rather an induced choice, some people find physical activity as a substitute for sex. In this case, working out really gives an outcome to aggression, tension and depression, but still won’t replace an emotional excitement, feelings of gratification and gladness.
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