can sex and training go hand and hand

is it ok to have sex before a meet?
does it take away from your performance?
people always ask me this so i figured i’d ask you guys.:sing:

Dont know about sex being bad for us guys. Bob Beamon reportedly had sex the night before his world record jump, & it didnt affect his performance, unless he was meant to jump 9.20m.

When I saw the heading of this thread I thought, sex and training at the same time.

I know of people who have had sex at the track while nobody else was there.

I read somewhere that it was considered bad for males to have sex and good for females - in relation to sports performance.

Why?

the object to maximizing sex before a race is to have it early in the day…i did my own experiment and had a PR the next day…into a slight head wind…

so now i am ‘stupid-stitious’ no and gotta go and see a head nurse all the time…haha

Remember Dennis Mitchell’s excuse for having an unusual amount of testosterone? He had sex with his wife 4 times the previous night!

Sex causes a T spike and hence may increase trainability

lol, :clap:

i find it to be just as good a warm up as drills and laps…

hang on, thats what im doing during sex anyway right? drilling and lapping around, hehe

Sex really helps me perform better as a coach on the track!
:clap:

Sex IS “hand in hand”, I thought, sort of. That’s why I soak my hand in bourbon…to get my date drunk:D…sorry, old joke…but seriously, when I read the thread title I thought this was a joke.

Originally posted by xlr8
The problem isn’t the sex, it is staying up all night before the meet looking for it. That’s why us married folks are safe!

xlr8

Your names not Bob is it?

My wife is a “morning person” if you know what I mean.:smiley:

Really helps to wake the CNS up on race day!!:baddevil::

will help get rid of the prerace nerves
just dont smoke

I am married and I am still up all night. I think my wife calls it foreplay:D

The problem isn’t the sex, it is staying up all night before the meet looking for it. That’s why us married folks are safe!

xlr8

I dunno, but there are quite a few huband/wife teams … Maybe thats Zhanna’s secret :wink:

that was the reason i asked this question!!
I always heard that sex was good for the female and bad for the male, as far as competition was concerned.
I was wondering if there was any logic to that.
It makes since that the loss of testorone
would affect you but then again, it does replenish itself so,…end result = confusion
:frowning:

Originally posted by worldclass
It makes since that the loss of testorone
would affect you but then again, it does replenish itself so,…end result = confusion
:frowning:

Sex increases Testosterone levels.

From t-mag:

And what about when you feel horny, baby? Well intercourse, masturbation, and viewing erotic stimuli may all cause rises in your… T. Actually, LH is better correlated with sexual arousal than T, but if LH pulses occur during arousal, then T is soon to follow.(17) Take a look at the following findings, but I’ll leave you alone to come up with your own conclusions.

• Measured over the course of several weeks, men’s T levels went up on 11 nights in which they had sex while the T levels went down during 11 sexless nights.(5)

• Increases in LH are seen during sexual arousal while watching erotic movies.

• Increases in LH and T are seen during sexual activity including masturbation.

And finally, what about those horny rats? This study will have frightening implications if it’s released to the females of the world. Think about it!

• Rats release LH and total T by being exposed to a sexually responsive female. In one particular study, the rats were conditioned, Pavlov style, by presenting a sexually receptive female along with a strong background odor.(9) In the future, the odor alone was enough to cause a similar increase in LH and T as when the sexy rat was present.

And as one of the writers said in a reader mail response who cares? Would you not have sex because you think it would help you a tiny bit in training?

Regardless to your answer to that question it helps you, so just do it.

question for the dummies in the crowd: whats LH?

L= Long
H= Hard

?? :wink: