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ShareWant to spice up your love life? Just get started with an exercise program
Are you fed up with health experts telling you to exercise? If you hear another word about looking after your heart or losing weight, are you likely to scream? Well, here's an incentive you won't want to ignore: Fit people have better sex.
You don't have to be a full-on athlete to feel the benefits. A brisk walk every day, three 20-minute jogging outings a week, or a few sessions in the swimming pool could be all it takes to improve your sex life.
And for extra excitement, try a course of yoga or pilates. It is said that fitter people are likely to have increased stamina, more flexibility and better body image. This means a sporty person will be more confident and adventurous while making love and they'll be able to last longer.
"Physical improvements in muscle strength and tone, endurance, body composition and cardiovascular function (specifically, enhanced peripheral blood flow) can all enhance sexual functioning. Be careful not to over-train; too much exercise can actually decrease testosterone levels leading to a less-robust sexual appetite," says an expert.
Women have been led to believe that the menopause goes hand-in-hand with reduced libido. But a study in America at Penn State University claims women who find their sexual desire fading as they get older may not be the victims of hormonal changes, but may be reacting instead to feeling depressed about their body image.
Testosterone (T) is an androgen secreted mostly from the testicles of males and the ovaries of females (small amounts produced in adrenal glands of both sexes). It is best known for its effects on increasing lean muscle mass, reducing body fats and slowing aging processes. T also plays a central role in promoting sexual desire.
With males, testosterone enhances sex life by producing more frequent erections, increasing sexual urges, helping sustain the bone density, mass and muscular strength necessary to make love-making pleasurable, especially during the morning.
Testosterone also reduces depression and chronic fatigue, which obstructs a good sex life. Normal levels of testosterone for men are about 300-1,200 ng/d (nanograms/deciliter). A simple blood test can determine testosterone levels.
Women enjoy sex more often when they have normal, healthy levels of testosterone.
Normal levels for women are approximately 20-100 ng/dl. Heightened sexual arousal in women generally occurs when testosterone binds with estrogen receptors, which directly influence her sex drive, mood, muscle and bone density, energy levels and metabolic processes that ignite sexual metabolism.
--health.propeller.com
