Sex & Powerlifting!!!

[vtec96]

ok, here is the question: does sex effect your lifiting & strength? Let me explain why i ask:

Back in the days while boxing, my coach would always tell us NO SEX for 2 weeks before any fight! He said we would loose, aggresion, motivation, strength, focus, etc!! I thought it sounded true and listened since i wanted to be at my best.
Recently, my old powerlifting coach said we should not have sex 10 days before a meet!! Saying the same reasons as above.

Does everyone beleive this and follow this "rule"?

does it really make a difference?

 

[powerlifterjay]

Hell no it doesnt effect anything. You may have read about my wild days in bars ETC. I have truly mellowed. At 16 i got into boxing and actually compiled a 13-1 amatuer boxing record. Nothing major it was all fun. But i heard the same shit. And its exactly that ...shit. Powerlifting same thing.

Here is my take. I will be staight up honest with you. Dude i can have sex multiple times a day. Call it to much test or being young (boxing days) but either way i love to get it on. So much in fact it runs alot of my thoughts. So if i do not have sex my mind drifts towrds when i WILL do it again. Now dont go fuckin from 9pm till the sun rises. But get your shit done and ou tof your mind so yu can concentrate at the task at hand. If i try to hold out i will just end up jerkin in the shower anyway. So my advice do it and clear you r mind so you can concentrate on what needs to be done. How much energy do you really burn. Have her get on top and ride one out so you can relax. Or swap oral. Either way slow and good!

 

[endpoint]

if this was true george halbert better watch out....its been a few months!

 

[Deciever]

hell, its been a long 14 years w/o sex for me.... i dont think its helped my lifting much..... if you really believe its true... do a test... before one of your ME days, have sex, and see how you do.. than next week dont have sex, and see how you do

 

[vtec96]

Jay, damn, thats what I was hoping but you know everyone says dont do this and that!!
Well my g/f thought I was crazy when i first mentioned this one day, then after gettin it on w/her, and asked her to come to the gym with me, she barely wanted to get out of bed, much less go W/O! She was like now I know why they say that about sex....Well for me as long as its not like "right-before" I think im straight!!

Thanks,

 

[powerlifterjay]

Well let me rephase what i said. Its ok but not moments before. Now i can do this. I have PR'd after having sex literally 30minutes before i leave to the gym. Liek i said relax while you do it. I have sex everyday, if not with my wife I...well you knwo! And that to me take more energy then with her. So be safe night before OK, moments before no. Now i wouldnt do it 30 minutes before a meet but i alway do the night before. That way i aint thinkin about gettin my freak on when i should be thinking of my lifts! If your up in arms over it be safe and dont do it. Its just my opinion.

Mike Tyson for the record doesnt believe that myth either.

 

[vtec96]

I fully agree ... Also I seem to think that probably about 12-24 hrs you will probably be "recovered" and ready to go Seems to work from what i have seen so far...just trying to see what everyone thinks.... I now look back and think that this 2 weeks sh!t was crazy!!!

btw, still going good with the bench routine.....Thanks,

 

[GRIMMER]

I think that i read somewhere that having sex before a big physiacal exersion can actually increase test levels. I'm not sure though and if i ever got that involved as to obstaine ,my girl would definately leave me

 

[vtec96]

I think that i read somewhere that having sex before a big physiacal exersion can actually increase test levels. I'm not sure though and if i ever got that involved as to obstaine ,my girl would definately leave me

I was just about to ask about test levels.....here is what i think:

1) If these coaches had any "Truth" to what they are saying, then having sex anytime would effect your lifting!! If you have to wait 2 weeks to have "all of your strength" for a meet, then imagine sex 1-2 days before a ME day ... that would be crazy, you would never be able to make PR's!! They should then just say when training for strenght, do not Ever have sex ..... or maybe in your "off season" or something

2) They say that sex decreases your test...Well personally I dont think so...I have heard in many other places that it Increases it, and also many hormones like GH .... Maybe not right after, but somehow it does later.. Maybe like a workout, it will decrease for a min, then shoot up past where it was before.... Well Im not an expert on test, so if anyone can help out here please do

 

[powerlifterjay]

No offense to your coach or any coaches but what do they know? They pass these wise tales down that they got from there coach. Next thing you knwo your practicing shit from 1955!

Sex increases test levels. That is why i tell my wife i must have sex with her. Or i need to shower ALONE. I am releasing test!

NO for real man to be safe dont do it 30 minutes before only because it may make you a tad bit more passive. I personally dont believe that either , but like i said to be safe. But the night before go for it. At least then you can think about your squat depth , or warm ups while you try to fall asleep,the night before a big contest, not pussy!