Colin O’Leary
, a graduate student at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, writes that he and his adviser,
Anthony Hackney, are “launching a study that is examining the effects of exercise training on sexual libido in adult males. To assess whether a full research study is needed to answer this question, I am doing a preliminary questionnaire that will ask questions about training history and sexual libido that has been approved by the UNC institutional review board. …
Follow [this] link to take an online survey about the effects of physical exercise and training load on sexual libido in adult males conducted through the
UNC Exercise and Sport Science Department. The survey should only take 5-10 minutes to complete. Please only do so if you are a male between the ages of 18-80 that regularly participates in endurance activities, such as running, walking, biking, or swimming. Thank you!” Consider it done, Colin. (But watch out for the ladies remarking: “Hey, what about us?”)
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Interesting survey.
I remember telling Mark Cleary after a good performance at the Carlsbad 5k a few years ago that when I race well, I feel sexually passionate and want to go home immediately to my wife, but when I race poorly, I don’t have those feelings at all.
He brought up the point that when one exercises strenuously, it releases testosterone and perhaps that is what I’m feeling.
It makes sense. I remember as a younger man, My performance physically and sexually was always at peak and it never dawned on me that the common factor could be a hormone.
I wonder if other athletes have noticed this.
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