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Your exercise routine may actually make you worse at sex — here's why

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  • A study found that for people who identify as men, intense exercise can actually lower their libido. 
  • Similar studies have found the same trend can be true for people who identify as women.
  • It's another reminder to give your body a rest and don't push it with intense workouts too often.  

Exercise has many amazing health benefits, including boosting your mood and keeping you healthier. But if one of your reasons to keep it up at the gym is to be better in bed, you may be in for some bad news. 

A study by the University of North Carolina published earlier this year found that if you're training hard in the gym, it may make it harder to keep up when having sex.

The study involved surveying about 1,000 participants who identified as male about their exercise habits as well as their sexual activity level, libido, how often they thought about sex, and more. Even across different ages, researchers found that those who had particularly long or particularly intense workouts were less likely to think about or desire sex than those who took it easier in the gym.

These findings are particularly interesting because, as The New York Times noted, past studies have often focused on people with vaginas, and they found something similar: too much intense exercise can cause a hormonal imbalance, which can then affect their sex drives.  guy working out

But just because you do CrossFit or love a marathon run does not mean that your sex drive is ruined. This is just another reason why you shouldn't go too hard when exercising. In fact, the study found that those who exercised lightly to moderately had higher libidos than their counterparts. 

So if you're an athlete or into intense workouts, you should be taking care of yourself. If you need a rest day, you should feel OK giving it to yourself, and if you're hurt, don't push it. 

And if protecting your body wasn't cause enough to take it easy, think about your partner the next time you overdo it, and maybe opt for an in-bedroom sweat sesh instead. 

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