Sexual activity can reduce testosterone levels
Great philosopher Plato was the first who raised this myth when writing about the Olympic champion Ikkos of Tarentum. According to the literature, Ikkos preparing for the Olympic games to 84 in the year 444 BC, by eating large portions of boar, goat cheese and meat, and avoid sexual activity. He worries that intercourse will reduce its strength.
According to an article published in Newsweek, the Romans did not agree with the idea that the Greek people. Year 77 AD Pliny the Elder, the Roman author, wrote that the spirit that began to be waged again sluggish with intercourse. Since then, the concept of sex will reduce the performance of the athletes began to be abandoned.
In early 1900, legendary boxer Rocky Marciano fasting states have sex for a month before the game. Marciano is a retired heavyweight boxer with a record has never been defeated.
In the mid-20th century, Muhammad Ali also admitted he had sex two months before the fast to the ring. Legendary boxer said absent from the sex makes it more calm and not easily defeated. Ali is a legendary fighter with a winning record that has not been broken 56 times with 37 knockouts from 61 matches.
Following in the footsteps of the senior, recently boxer Manny Pacquiao also said he had to "separate beds" with his wife for preparing the big game. He had met his wife in particular and of course the visit he held back with no sexual activity.
Not proven
For centuries, athletes comply with this standard are fasting for the sake of his best performances to make love while competing. Not just boxers, athletes from other sports like American football Footbaal and follow them.
Ian Shrier, sports medicine expert at McGill University says there are two reasons why athletes are willing to stay away from sex before a game. First, sex is considered able to make athletes run out of energy and fatigue when playing. This myth was not proven.
Second, sexual activity the night before competing influences one's worldview. It is not yet known the truth of this second reason. "Sexual activity before the actual competition did not affect the strength, balance, endurance or speed of reaction of an athlete," says Shrier.
ESPN sports television channel had done research on this matter. They tested the athletes wrestling men and women to know the cardiovascular endurance and upper body strength and lower use sensors designed by the United States Boxing Association.
The wrestlers were asked to refrain from having sex a day before doing a series of tests. Then a day later they were allowed berintim-intimate with her partner and then retest. Results showed physically, testosterone levels of men and women wrestlers remain high even though they already had sex.
Tommy Boone, sports psychologists also say there is no scientific basis to support the myth of sex absent will improve performance. In his research in 1995 to 11 athletes who perform a treadmill test, there was no difference in performance in athletes who missed having sex 12 hours before the tests with athletes who had sex.
"There are physical changes when having sex, namely increased heart rate from 70 bpm to 130 bpm. But compared with exertion during the match ball, the energy released during sex will not have much effect, less than 25 percent," said the author of Sex Before Athletic Competition: Myth or Fact is.
The scientists also found that too long absent sex can actually reduce levels of testosterone. Besides calories spent while having sex is equivalent to up two flights of stairs so it is considered no effect.
Experts also say that it takes an athlete before a game is getting enough rest and avoid stress in order to focus on a match that will be encountered. So if sex can make a person sleep soundly athletes, then why should be avoided?
Sources: AskMen
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