New information on why exercise improves your sex life....

Today's Post: Thursday, 8-27-2009

Exercise has long been known to improve the sex lives of men who do it. One reason for that is that regular exercise, particularly strength training and/or interval cardio, releases testosterone.

What’s far less known is that regular exercise improves the sex lives of women who do it. The effect may even be greater in women; and it’s true for women of all ages.

Other reasons that regular exercise tends to improve sex for the people who do it include.:

People who exercise have better circulation to MUCH better circulation than in people who don’t exercise. Since sexual arousal depends in part on good circulation – in both sexes, that’s very important, particularly for people over 40.

(Exercise helps keep your blood vessels pliable and healthy; and exercise increases your protective HDL while directly decreasing the amount of small particle LDL that causes heart disease and blood vessel narrowing or blocking. This not only helps prevent heart attacks, strokes, etc, it also helps prevent full or partial impotence or ED.)

Exercise tends to improve people’s sense of control and self-esteem; & people who exercise tend to become more proactive in other areas of their lives. Exercise also tends to prevent or improve depression. That means that people who exercise feel enough better and enough better about themselves to be more likely to be in a mood for sex. And, they are more likely to proactively initiate it.

People who exercise have more muscle mass and are less fat; & they are stronger. So their power to weight ratio is much more favorable and they move better and can move more vigorously.

And, because of those things, virtually all the people who lose fat and keep it off do regular exercise. Since being fat tends to make sex less enjoyable and less likely to happen, exercise also helps improve the sex lives of people who lose excess fat and are able to keep it off; and the permanent fat loss helps make sex more enjoyable and more likely to happen

That also means people who exercise tend to look better.

The new information I didn’t know until just today -- AND is also a likely reason why exercise, particularly vigorous exercise, tends to prevent or turn off depression -- is that exercise not only causes your body to release endorphins that over-ride pain to a large degree, it causes your body to release dopamine!

When you feel good or experience pleasure that is truly rewarding, it’s often largely because that experience or thought caused you to release dopamine. That means that when you already have decent or high dopamine levels from regular exercise, you quite literally enjoy every part of your life more; AND sex feels better and more rewarding too!

So, it’s hardly an accident that people who exercise have better sex lives. They become more likely to have it, to better at it; & we now know they enjoy it more too!