For those of you who are married and want to lose weight, try to start regular intercourse. The reason, according to the study of this activity can help burn calories, you know.
Recent studies have revealed that the calories burned during sex like a sport similar. The average man burns 4.2 calories per minute during sex, while women burned an average of 3.1 calories per minute.
To prove this theory, sex expert William Masters and Virginia Johnson conducted a study of 21 couples. All participants were given energy expenditure measuring device. This tool is called a wristband and asked to do the treadmill for about 30 menut, to find the size of the base burning calories.
Afterwards, they were asked to go home and have intercourse at least a minimum of four times per month. From the measurement results it was found that during sex even heartbeat respondents can reach 180 beats per minute.
In addition, we found that during sex the average man burn as much as 101 calories. While during a treadmill workout to burn 276 calories man. Woman burns about 69 calories and 213 calories during sex while doing the exercise treadmill.
"From this figure, the results showed that sexual activity has the potential to be considered as a physical exercise to burn calories," wrote the researchers, as quoted from the journal PLoS One, Tuesday (10/21/2014).
In addition to helping burn calories, lovemaking routine also provides other benefits for health. Some of these include reducing stress, boost immunity, balance hormone levels, and strengthen the pelvic muscles.
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