Exercise to Amp Your Sex Drive

By Kelly Turner on September 3rd, 2009

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SEX!

I love how that gets every one’s attention.

Exercise improves your sex life. Not only will you feel extra confident in how you look in your sexy undies, working out can actually, physically rev up your sex drive.  I call that a win,win.

Research shows that women who cycled for 20 minutes before viewing a sexy clip of film experienced 21 percent more sexual arousal than those who viewed the clip without working out.  Researchers attribute the arousal to heightened nerve activity caused by the intensity of the workout.  Exercise increases and improves blood flow, which heightens sexual experience, and makes it more pleasurable. 

Not only are your nerves heightened by exercise, but a good sweaty workout also relieves stress and gives you more energy.  We all know how stress can interfere with our sex lives, so having a healthy way to burn off that stressful energy that also boosts your self esteem does wonders for allowing you to get in the mood.  The increased energy you will feel from exercising regularly will also eliminate “I’m too tired” from your vocabulary.

Do it (ha) as a couple: encourage your man to work out with you.  Getting all sweaty and dirty together in the gym is a great way emotionally bond before you physically bond in the bedroom. The physical benefits are not only for the ladies: exercise also boosts men’s testosterone levels which will help amp their own sex drive right along with yours (as if they really need more encouragement.)  Research shows that men who have a higher percentage of body fat have lower testosterone levels and the increased blood flow caused by exercise gives men a larger, harder erection.

I think I just heard men everywhere get up and run for their gym shoes.

And of course, the added bonus of endurance you build from your workouts easily translates to the bedroom, which is never a bad thing.