Is sex an exercise??

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  • Jeepfreak81
    Jeepfreak81 Posts: 35 Member
    edited January 2018
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    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
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    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
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    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: 8,426 Member
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    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.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
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    TeacupsAndToning wrote: »
    yirara wrote: »
    wizzybeth wrote: »
    SurfyPants wrote: »
    Because this question hasn't been asked 1000 times on MFP...

    Most questions have been asked a thousand times on mfp

    Lets be honest: the search function is a bit rubbish

    See, I thought it was until I started putting quotes around what I was looking for

    It's an older style search function, unless you are used to those, rather than the more robust Google style engines, you can have trouble finding things.
  • healthy_kim
    healthy_kim Posts: 9 Member
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    Well my heart rate defiantly goes up in the bedroom
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
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    RAinWA wrote: »
    if your mind is on how many calories you are burning while having sex, someone is doing something wrong.

    Showing up with earbuds on is bound to kill the romance.
  • Marykaylady2010
    Marykaylady2010 Posts: 69 Member
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    I’ve seen a few posts on fb about the best positions for burning calories during sex and most of them have at least one person in some ridiculous position like holding themselves up in a bridge like pose. The calories for these ranged for 45 to 100 calories but there’s no way I could hold any ice those positions for 30 mins. It might be worth logging if someone was in the porn industry having hours of sex each day
  • vm007
    vm007 Posts: 241 Member
    edited January 2018
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    Depends on how fast you can move your right hand.

    So let's say x is the object - for real life example- we will make a reasonable assumption.

    Size is 10 cm or 3.93 inches- so from bottom to top motion is 3.93 inches /10 cm- now all you gotta do is measure the speed hand moves at and voila speed x distance = time -Now so 30 seconds to a 1 min worth of exercising = check heart rate and put it in a calculator and note the calories.

    All in all I'd say negligible. Ergo don't count these in your workout regime.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,598 Member
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    That depends if you are the one doing the pumping.

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