A possibly inappropriate question.....

Sweetsinger7

Ok so this might be a tad bit inappropriate but.....shouldnt sex be counted as a cardio workout? Lol Please give me your thoughts!!:blushing:

Krull_the_WarriorKing

Unless you just laying there still sleepin

tdupree71

Yes, I would say so!

ennaejay

Hahaha! I've often been tempted to wear my HRM during a good romp. Haven't done it yet. I always seem to forget about it :blushing: I imagine you'd be more tempted to up your # if you're counting it for exercise. Make some new records! hehehehe

Brandicaloriecountess

Some do, some dont. I do not count it. My general rule is if I am not doing an activity for the purpose of exercise I don't count it or log. I just consider that stuff a little bonus lol.

EPICSRT

My wife logs it as Sexercise.

I do not.

She actually did a search to see what the colories burned would be. I suggested that she use the HRM to verify.

If you're getting a workout, I say count it!

jackiemonx

apparantly u burn 100 cal every orgasm!

LorinaLynn

Leg raises, hip bridges, planks... I think it's calisthenics!

I don't count it towards exercise, though. It's part of my normal activity level.

sdickerson71303

I would think so but several doctors (Dr. Oz and my personal Doctor) say that during 1/2 hour of active sex both partners only burn about 22-28 calories...... haha u burn more calories running around the block once than having sex lol

laneybird

I don't log (and I, too, have been tempted to wear my HRM just to see lol)... but I get double the pleasure knowing I got an extra burn :laugh:

chyloet

I totally thought so too!!! I even tried to pull it up under cardiovascular ... lol! ... Told my boyfriend that I'm going to start wearing my heart rate monitor ... lmfao!!!

daves160

I suppose it would be, But only as long as your heart is beating in your target zone. For most, I think that would be 120 to 150bpm. But in reality? I suppose it depends on how long your... um "heart rate" lasts in your target zone?

koosdel

I still day it should be a team sport.

jewel3575

Hahaha! I've often been tempted to wear my HRM during a good romp. Haven't done it yet. I always seem to forget about it :blushing: I imagine you'd be more tempted to up your # if you're counting it for exercise. Make some new records! hehehehe

if you do can you please post that? lol but serious.. haha.

Tonnina

It is cardio work but the problem is you gotta time it and look at your HRM and it's just not romantic anymore... :brokenheart: When my Hubby and I go for a roll in ze hay we just do it and I don't count it but I do take some extra pleasure in knowing he helped me burn off some calories!

SusM321

I would think so but several doctors (Dr. Oz and my personal Doctor) say that during 1/2 hour of active sex both partners only burn about 22-28 calories...... haha u burn more calories running around the block once than having sex lol

That's all? lol I've been tempted to log "Sexercise" but, outside of the fact that everyone would have a blast with the tracking of that activity & I have my daughter and a few friends on here, the calorie loss just isn't worth the post! :laugh:

Rachaelluvszipped

too funny... I found this to find exercises calories burned..and found this in the list..lol!! :laugh:

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

meerkat70

My wife logs it as Sexercise.

I do not.

She actually did a search to see what the colories burned would be. I suggested that she use the HRM to verify.

If you're getting a workout, I say count it!

You know, this post is kind of revealing.... :-D

plantgrrl

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc has "sex-intercourse" as a thing you can calculate cals for. Sadly, unless you're the one "on top" though it's not as many as you would wish. Esp. since unless your with someone with a lot of stamina it's not gonna be for a super long time...I believe it also calculates "Kissing" so I suppose you could add in foreplay and see where that gets you. I've never really wanted to time it (might be a bit of a mood killer)...then again it might be kind of fun to try and gauge your "effort"--can you sing? Yes, light effort. Can you speak for more then just a few words, but not sing? Moderate effort. Only a few words and out of breath? Intense effort. Anyhow, I prefer to let that be a "bonus" workout--I don't want to ruin sex with thinking about my "healthy lifestyle." Just enjoy it!

LorinaLynn

I've always said if you're looking at the clock at all during sex, something is very wrong. And that goes both ways... whether it's "Is that all?" or "Are we there yet?"

1goodymom67

umm it depends on what you do...:blushing:

Hellcatinheels

YES!!!!! and I do log mine, though not as Sexercise (though that's what I call it to my boyfriend and friends). For a while that was my primary source of working out!!! I've been logging it as "high impact aerobics", since both me and my boyfriend are very... active participants and enthusiastic about it. Constant position changes, non-stop movement and activity, high heart rate for an hour or more, holding my body in the "pull up" position for 20+ minutes... if that's not high impact aerobics then I don't know what is!!! LOL

LivLovLrn

I would think so but several doctors (Dr. Oz and my personal Doctor) say that during 1/2 hour of active sex both partners only burn about 22-28 calories...... haha u burn more calories running around the block once than having sex lol

I feel sorry for those doctors only burning that many calories...and more so for their partners!!!

JamesBurkes

Sadly, I prefer my workouts to be longer than 30 seconds....