Sex: The New Cardio?

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When it comes to choosing your fitness strategy you must ask yourself three questions:

Is it feasible?
Is it enjoyable?
Is it effective?

When you add this to a healthy diet, you are on your way to reaching your fitness goals.

While browsing the Internet, I came across the “Ultimate Sex Diet” which primarily utilizes sex as a means to shape, tone and burn excess calories. This book was written by Kerry McCloskey, a New York based model and actress that lost over 20 pounds using the tools and techniques described in her book.

Would the Ultimate Sex Diet work for you and would it really help you lose weight/burn fat?

Sex like any form of movement allows you to burn calories, research has revealed that you can burn “150 to 250 calories per half hour” engaged in sex. Sex can also be a pleasurable and relaxing experience that can reduce stress and anxiety (reduced stress can aid in your attempts for weight loss). Sex is also quite inexpensive, from a financial perspective, no gym membership required.

Kerry recommends that you have sex “three to five times per week, which can be accomplished by doubling up on the weekends". So far this fitness strategy sounds pretty good but before we call our significant others and set up a series of rendezvous we should put it through our fitness strategy test.

Is it feasible? The sex diet is certainly feasible if you already have a healthy sexual relationship with a partner you can trust. The time investment and the duration required to burn the amount of calories necessary to obtain a caloric deficit might be a challenge for some. One could work on their stamina/endurance through a more traditional cardio program to prepare.
Is it enjoyable? Absolutely!!!
Is it effective? This strategy could be effective to a degree but I would certainly recommend incorporating more traditional exercise strategies into the mix.

If you have been working out for quite sometime 250 calories (350 if you’re a wild stallion) for 30 minutes of exercise may not be the most efficient way to burn fat. Sure you could prolong your “sexercise” session but to get to the caloric expenditure of your traditional cardio routine you would be in the bedroom for quite a long time or the acrobatics you’d need to perform may prohibit the novice exerciser from utilizing this strategy efficiently.

Sex for cardio …maybe on a light day. 