Table of contents:
- The benefits of sex for fitness and health
- Having sex burns how many calories?
- Make out
- Oral sex
- Foreplay
- Make love
There is good news for you and your partner. In addition to increasing intimacy, having sex can help both of you stay fit and lose weight. You and your partner have one more reason to make love tonight. Having sex burns quite a lot of calories, especially if it's done with passion. However, keep in mind that the extent to which sex plays in maintaining your fitness certainly depends on what kind of intimate session you and your partner usually have. The hotter and longer sex lasts, the more positive impact it will have on the health of you and your partner.
The benefits of sex for fitness and health
Sex is a physical activity that is quite strenuous, in fact, almost the same as exercise. Because sex requires a lot of energy, your body burns calories from carbohydrates. The more calories you burn, the faster your metabolism will be. This of course will be very helpful if you or your partner is trying to lose weight.
Apart from speeding up the body's metabolism, having sex can also train your fitness. When you make love, various muscle groups in the body will work and contract. Usually the muscles that work during sex are the muscles of the arms, abdomen, hamstrings and calves. Exercising these muscles can build and increase your muscle mass just like exercising at the gym. When compared to body fat, increased muscle mass has the potential to burn more calories, even when the muscles are not working.
Having sex burns how many calories?
There are many factors to consider when calculating the number of calories burned through sex. For example, how long you have sex and what position you choose with your partner. Sex can last anywhere from two minutes to over an hour. Reporting from Women's Day, here is a calculation of the calories burned in your intimate session with your partner.
Make out
Without having to undress, you and your partner can burn quite a lot of calories in one hour. If you weigh 60 pounds, make out or make out an hour can burn about 58 to 80 calories. This figure is equivalent to walking 1.5 kilometers or exercising for 23 minutes. This hour-long intimate session can also burn calories from half a can of soda that you consume. To increase the number of calories burned, you and your partner can try making out in various positions such as standing or carrying your partner.
Oral sex
If you give oral sex, it's not just your partner who will benefit. You can also burn calories as well. Giving oral sex for half an hour can burn about 54 to 60 calories. This number of calories burned is equivalent to walking 1.2 kilometers or exercising for 18 minutes. This figure is also equivalent to eating one apple. In order to burn more calories during oral sex, you and your partner can try increasing the room temperature so that it is warmer. This will make it easier for you to sweat and this will help your body burn more calories. In addition, some people will also feel more excited when they have sweaty sex.
Foreplay
So that you and your partner can burn more calories, do not rush to penetrate immediately. The longer the warm-up session or foreplay what you do, the more calories you can burn. Foreplay alone can last for 15 to 45 minutes. Try to explore each other's bodies starting with slow movements to increase the duration foreplay.
You can also vary the various positions to make your body work more intensely. A person weighing 60 kilograms can burn about 83 calories in a 45 minute warm-up session. This is the equivalent of exercising for 28 minutes and walking 1.9 kilometers. This amount can also burn calories from a glass of iced coffee that you drink before starting an intimate session with your partner.
Make love
The hotter your sex session and your partner, of course, the more calories you can burn. If you weigh 60 pounds, having sex burns roughly 100 to 140 calories if done for 45 minutes. This is the same as running two kilometers or exercising for 40 minutes.
Try to change positions, increase movement, raise room temperature, and reach orgasm so that the more calories you burn. Certain sex positions such as women on top, standing, and doggy style also tends to burn more calories than the missionary position. A sexologist from the United States, Jaiya Kinzbach also revealed that sighing and deep breathing during sex will help burn as much as 18 to 30 calories.
