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You can check the calories burned by having sex here. I log it on MFP as aerobic exercise.
We can have sex here? sweet
LMAO!!!!! See I knew this was better than eHarmony!!!!!! \
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I "googled" this just two weeks ago. Found an awesome article by a guy that decided it would be his main form of exercise...what a shock :-) His research showed intercourse burned 250 calories an hour (I think) and foreplay burned 350 calories an hour. However, according to this article, the average person participates in only 20 minutes of foreplay and 10 minutes of intercourse at a time. He then got all mathematical and subtracted the difference between calories lost during sexual activity vs. sitting on the couch watching TV and totaled it to be about 48 calories per experience. I thought this sounded like a fair number; nothing that would replace exercise, but enough to give me some incentive to have more sex with my husband, so I do track it....more for fun though :-)0
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Just think about it like any other exercise. 30 minutes of your heart rate up, you're on top and you're sweating, then yes you probably burn some good calories. But if it's 10 minutes and you're on the bottom, likely not!
My thoughts: leave sex as your pleasure. If you make it about burning calories, there goes the fun! Leave the calorie burning to actual exercises.0 -
It honestly depends on what your doing and for how long.... ;-)0
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250 calories an hour!!!...WOW.....I wonder what it would be like to actually ingage in sex for an hour.....hmmmm!.....LOL
I do plan on wearing my HRM next time because I am very curious about this!!!0 -
Depends if your husband/bf is a minute man... rofl0
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I'll wear my HRM tonight and get back to you on that... haha :bigsmile:0
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250 calories per hour for intercourse, 350 for foreplay?? What...but how...which way...ah I give up. :huh:0
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You can check the calories burned by having sex here. I log it on MFP as aerobic exercise.
We can have sex here? sweet
Hahahahahaha.
Depends on what's going on, to be honest.0 -
Just so you know, there was a forum similar to this the other day and it was deleted. Fair warning0
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If you exert a lot of energy - then yes it burns calories...but it's difficult to determine as no one has sex the same exact way as an other.
Sex on an exercise ball is a good work out for the both of you...really works your core0 -
It does if you do it on an exercise bike and are the pedaler.
LOL, don't know why this made me laugh so hard, but it did!0 -
If you exert a lot of energy - then yes it burns calories...but it's difficult to determine as no one has sex the same exact way as an other.
Sex on an exercise ball is a good work out for the both of you...really works your core
Hmmmm officially a new idea for the excercise ball!0 -
So what I'm taking away from this is that sex will burn some calories but not a huge amount. Therefore if I want to use it as an "exercise" I guess I'm going to have to do A LOT of it! Oh well. If I must, I must I guess! Work, work, work in the pursuit of health and fitness!0
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Amazing what a missing bit of punctuation can do to a sentence...lol0
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All I know is after an hour on the elliptical I am sweaty, but not super exhausted, and have burned roughly 600 calories. After around ten minutes of sex I am super sweaty and need to sleep for ten hours.0
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I absolutely love all the answers, a lot of which made me laugh. I would never log any of it as exercise. It is strictly pleasure lol! I was just curious if anyone knew! Thanks for all the comments!0
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All I know is after an hour on the elliptical I am sweaty, but not super exhausted, and have burned roughly 600 calories. After around ten minutes of sex I am super sweaty and need to sleep for ten hours.
AGREE!!! :laugh:0 -
All I know is after an hour on the elliptical I am sweaty, but not super exhausted, and have burned roughly 600 calories. After around ten minutes of sex I am super sweaty and need to sleep for ten hours.
AGREE!!! :laugh:
That has to do with the pleasure hormones released during sex........
Unfortunantly for me sex invigorates me. My BF teases that im the "energizer bunny" even when Im the one exerting more effort based on position0 -
Sex is the only time I can have pie and not consume any calories.0
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