Is sex an exercise??

arjunsneo
arjunsneo Posts: 4 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I was wondering how many calories we spend for 30 minutes in sex??
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  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    Consider it a bonus. And enjoy!
  • brittneyalley
    brittneyalley Posts: 274 Member
    Dr. Google says “To calculate how many calories you burn the next time you have sex, multiply the time in minutes by 4.2 (for men) or 3.1 (for women).”
  • Jeepfreak81
    Jeepfreak81 Posts: 35 Member
    MichSmish wrote: »
    Strap on that fancy schmancy fitness tracker and find out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    I've thought about putting my heart rate monitor and seeing what wahoo fitness says I burned
  • johnd4076
    johnd4076 Posts: 181 Member
    30 minutes! What a stayer!!! ;)
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    arjunsneo wrote: »
    I was wondering how many calories we spend for 30 minutes in sex??

    That depends on if you're on top or bottom. Lol
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,943 Member
    You might want to look into various practices that involve punishment and postures you can only hold with the right amount of muscle strength. Maybe :*o:)
  • Jeepfreak81
    Jeepfreak81 Posts: 35 Member
    edited January 2018
    rainbowbow wrote: »
    Jeepfreak81 wrote: »
    MichSmish wrote: »
    Strap on that fancy schmancy fitness tracker and find out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    I've thought about putting my heart rate monitor and seeing what wahoo fitness says I burned

    and this, my friends, is why heart rate is NOT correlated with calories burned.

    Frankly there's no truly accurate way of measuring calories burned. For that matter the calories contained in food are a guestimate that can be off by 10%. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/26799-calorie-counts-inaccurate.html
  • Jeepfreak81
    Jeepfreak81 Posts: 35 Member
    Let me rephrase, there's no accurate way for us normal folk to track it. We used best guesses, and that's fine, but people should be aware there's error involved
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    Jeepfreak81 wrote: »
    Let me rephrase, there's no accurate way for us normal folk to track it. We used best guesses, and that's fine, but people should be aware there's error involved

    Sure, but i was more so saying that the margin of error between....
    • Heart Rate via smart watch for running
    • vs.
    • Heart Rate for doing it

    is going to be larger. One the heart rate is indicative of work being done and calories being burned, the other... not so much.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    I consider sex part of normal activity not exercise.
    Depending on what you do would burn different amounts of calories.
    I'd only count it as exercise if you are doing something above your normal level of effort.

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