How bodybuilding will affect your sex drive

If you are a bodybuilder, then you already know how pumping iron changes your physique. More than likely, you will also know how just the look of a lean muscular body becomes a psychological turn-on, even if it's your own. Whether male or female, bodybuilding is more than just mere muscle; it's an aphrodisiac and it gets its power from the same hormone that stimulates growth in both sexes, 'testosterone'.

Researchers have found that testosterone levels in both sexes are higher following an intense workout. When you train at optimum levels, you have the highest amounts of testosterone in your system and it remains high even after you have completed your workout. This intensity is caused by the blood flow circulation of the sex glands.

The overwhelming urge to have sex after a workout (sometimes even during a workout) is created by the consistent stimulation of the body through strenuous activities such as bodybuilding or weight training. You may find yourself experiencing an excess of sexual fantasies, even while training. It is also not too uncommon for males and females to experience near ejaculation while training during this heightened level of testosterone. Your muscles become hard, round and full. When you're seeing your body transform, you begin to feel powerful, desireable and sexy. The reason is bodybuilding promotes a more positive body and self image. When this happens, it sparks your confidence and ignites a fire that transends into your sexual desires, fantasies and romantic or sexual relationships.

It may come as a surprise that certain exercises are responsible for the increase in testosterone in the body. One of the main exercises is the 'squat'. Squats are very important for building powerful quadriceps but squats also utilize huge amounts of muscle fibers which causes an increase in testosterone resulting in a heightened sex drive.

You will find that your body's hormones will send signals to your partner due to your heightened levels of self-esteem and confidence. In fact, your body language will send signals to others who come in contact with you that you have an ora of confidence which will become an attraction as well. Because you feel sexy, your actions automatically create sexual desire. If you are a bodybuilder with a partner who is also a bodybuilder, you both will come from a place of raging hormones since you both will experience the same elation that bodybuilding and heavy lifting brings.

Some males have higher levels of testosterone in their systems than other males. When bodybuilding, a male with a higher level of testosterone will also have a stronger sex drive than a male with less. This is because the male is consistently building muscle which gets the blood flowing, which produces the testosterone, which peaks during and after his workout. In most cases, he becomes a walking hormone able, willing and ready.

On the same token, female bodybuilders experience this heightened sensation just as the males do. Even though females do not normally produce great amounts of testosterone, some females will have higher levels than other females. When this happens, these women can pack on more muscle mass naturally and will experience the overwhelming sex drive that men experience.

The body also has ways of letting you know when something is off. Surprisingly, you can judge your body's response to your training simply by your sex drive. For instance, if you normally have a heightened sex drive, especially after a rigorous training session and you find that your appeal towards sex is weaning, it can be a sure indication that you may be overdoing it in the gym. One of the best ways to combat this problem is to allow the body to get adequate amounts of rest and to reduce the amount of time spent in the gym. This will allow the body time to repair itself and grow.

Experiencing great training sessions followed by great sex is a bodybuilder's dream. If you are not experiencing this phenomenon, maybe you should get into the gym and start lifting. Before long, you too will feel like a human hormone.

How Anabolic Steroids Affect Your Sex Drive

Your libido is, well, essential. That is an understatement. If you can’t feel like a man, no use looking like the best built one. Okay, some things are known about male sex drive, many things are not. We will focus on what we do know, and, what the majority of cases I’ve seen have taught me. We have already mentioned much of the effect of DHT on the sex drive in the DHT section, however, we can expand a bit and give you some more useful and practical information. With respect to anabolic steroids, the male sex drive is affected by the following.

I. The androgenicity of the drug(s) used. II. The aromatizing qualities of the drug(s) used. III. The progestagenic influence of the drug. IV. The total amount of drug(s) in the system at any give time.

I. First, the androgenicity of the drug. In general, anabolic steroids that are highly androgenic have an intense affect on the libido. Authors will argue expertise about which drugs are more and less androgenic. You’ll read that deca is moderate, then you’ll read its very androgenic, you’ll read that winstrol is anabolic, then you’ll read its more androgenic…bla, bla, bla. Here is the empirical facts in most (again not all, and there are some exceptions) cases. Testosterone makes you horny. Unless you have been on a cycle forever with no break, the first few days and weeks of test use definitely increase sex drive. Dianabol is also a popular one for making juicers super horny. These drugs in almost all of the literature are known “androgenic drugs”. These are two no brainers. This is just the ground level illustration of anabolic steroids having a positive affect on sex drive.

Nandrolone, as we’ve mentioned has a lessening affect on the sex drive. This is variable from person to person as we’ve stated previously, but is largely related to dosage. The reasons why we have discussed in the DHT section. Whether or not you agree or whatever you’ve read that may be different is always informative. Hey, the more you read, the better off you’ll be. Just be careful to pick and choose the advice you follow wisely. Okay, anyway, we all know deca has a negative affect on your sex drive. This also means that other esters of the drug such as the old school Laurabolin (nandrolone laurate) the eleven ester chain form of deca will have a similar affect if used in a similar dosage pattern. The half-life is very close to deca but exceeds it by a few days. The literature often says two weeks or more, but from experience, I’d say deca five to six days, and laurabolin, eight to ten. The shorter acting versions such an nandrolone phenylpropionate will also have the same affect. Also, the onset of phenylprop will be faster which will probably cause you to notice a decreased sex drive earlier in your cycle. Remember that many side affects with anabolic steroids are duration dependent as well as dosage dependent and you may not always experience the effects listed in the information sources you read and study.

Trenbolone is interesting because much of what you read will end in two truths. Number one, it is androgenic (some literature actually says six times more androgenic thatn testosterone), and two, it is a progesterone derived drug. This sounds like a paradox. For functional purposes, tren is a hearty androgen that also has a chemical structure that is very similar to progesterone. Trenbolone is also non-aromatizing. The real world application is that tren can make you strong and grow like you are on test, without the water weight (there will be no estrogen), and without the increased sex drive caused by testosterone (because of tren’s anti-libido progestagenic affect).

II. Aromatizing drugs affect your natural testosterone production by interfering with the classic feed-back loop. Most know that hight estrogen levels affect your pituitary gland and shuts down your body’s natural production of testosterone. The pituitary gland is a master regulator of hormonal levels. Actually, it is controlled by the true master gland, the hypothalamus…but this can get confusing and will take us off topic. For now, just know that the pituitary senses high estrogen or progesterone, and shuts off a hormone called leutinizing hormone or LH. LH travels from the pituitary to the testes, finds specific cells called Leydig cells, and tells the Leydig cells to kick out some test. If you interefere with this message, you interfere with natural testosterone production. This is called the hypo-thalamic-pituitary-testicular-axis. All this means is a loop that senses estrogen or progesterone levels for the purpose of regulating testosterone. This is also the very loop that makes anti-estrogenic drugs effective at increasing your testosterone levels post cycle.

Once your system is clean from anabolics (days to weeks depending on the dosage and drugs used), use of anti-estrogens work to block the estrogen from the pituitary, thereby telling the pituitary, “hey, we don’t have enough testosterone round these parts, fire some up there Billy Bob”. The pituitary then sends/ allows LH to be produced once again where it then travels to the Leydig cells of the testes, and stimulates the machinery to turn back on. You will know when this happens because this is when you can first tell that your balls are getting bigger again, your energy level comes back up, you start to feel good again since being off, etc. Common drugs that aromatize include the nandrolones, dianabol and all the testosterone esters. The rest of the anabolic steroids are constantly disagreed upon amongst gurus, and their outcomes are not definitive enough to mention in detail, whether you are considering the likelihood of chemical structures, or empirical real world effects. After all, deca, test and d-bol are the drugs most used that will be the major culprits with regards to aromatization. I know, you all have probably known someone who has gotten some nasty estrogenic type side effects from some other drug besides deca, test or d-bol. Those side effects come from other root causes…However you look at it, estrogenic affects from anabolic steroids serve to decrease sex drive by shutting off your natural supply.

Only if the drugs are androgenic enough and affect the sexual areas of your brain in just the right way will the drug cancel its own affects and increase sex drive. Your individual biochemistry comes into play with many of the sexual highs and lows of anabolic steroid usage, it takes individual experience to know what you need and when. But the information found here will hopefully take much of the guesswork out of your experiences.

III. Progestagenic Affects of drugs are often over-looked. This is because most individuals do not know how potent progesterone really is in the body. All you ever really here is the bad stuff about estrogen. Well, progesterone my friends can be pretty nasty. Remember what we've said about sex offenders and progesterone. the govenment itself uses progesterone treatment to kill the sex drive of male sex offenders in order to help control their cravings. If it works on a freak, it will definitely work on a normal person. Don't forget, progesterone kills sex drive in the male.

Potency Problems

Some men think that potency problems are connected only with penis. In fact, everything is more complicated. Erectile dysfunction is not a disease, but a complication of existing ones. It is impossible that an absolutely healthy male became impotent.

Male sexual drive reflects everything occurring in the male body: hormonal shifts, misperfusion, breaks in nervous system, psychological problems. It is considered that sexual problems in males under 40 are psychological, and in males over 40 those problems are connected with blood vessels.

Andrologists say that genetically in each male is put a great sexual potential, so called 15-fold strength reserve. In other words, each male is able to satisfy 15 women and exactly that helped humanity to survive. Unfortunately, today males have a contemptuous attitude towards their sexual reserves and as a result some males lose it by 60 years old

What lowers male sex drive?
1. Irregular sex life, especially after 30 years. As other organs, genitalia also needs “training”. Popular theories about sexual abstinence, which thought to improve potency, turned to be wrong. Multiple studies showed that regular sex improves quality and quantity of sperm cells, and also improves potency.
2. Repeated sexually transmitted infections. Though modern antibiotics help to get rid of gonorrhea and syphillis just in a week, however those infections reduce male potency.
3. Untreated or incorrectly treated diseases of male reproductive organs: urethritis, prostatitis, vesiculitis, epididymoorchitis, orchitis, etc.

Other factors leading to potency lowering:

• ischemic heart disease
• hypertension
• endocrine disorders
• diabetes
• adenoma
• psychoneurology diseases
• some medications
• drugs, smoking, alcohol
• sedentary lifestyle
• stress
• poor ecology
• unhealthy diet
• poor sleeping

Age and Male Sex Drive

Charlie Chaplin became father when he was over 60 years old. In harems of Oriental sovereigns there were not less than hundred wives and concubines, and certainly their duties included not only feeding camels and keeping the house clean...

Heracles overnight could make love to fifty daughters of Thespius and it is considered his Thirteenth Labour. Andrologists say each male has such sexual reserves.

Everyone knows that male age has its effects on potency. At twenty years old men are able to make sex day and night. By thirty they get cooler and their sex life becomes regular. Males at forty have enough power and experience to make many things. After fifty, naturally occur age-specific changes in male body: cells do regenerate slowly and production of sex hormones get reduced. Sex drive remains high but male needs more power to perform.

However, age is not just the number of living years but it is a rate showing deterioration of human body. Some males aged 70 give a head start to males aged 30. Therefore, to estimate health condition doctors use notion of “biological age” - true rate of aging which is identified with special tests. It includes examinations of cardiovascular, respiratory and nervous systems, cholesterol rate in blood, elasticity of chorda.

When all body systems are in good condition in a man, then his biological age corresponds his passport one. In some cases tests show that there are some problems with health. For example, blood vessels are not keeping up, lumen is narrow and there is much cholesterol in blood. So in this case male age may be over age indicated in passport. These tests help doctors to find out if patient belongs to risk group for heart attack – this information is very useful for those who care about their health and do not want to die during an orgasm.

Each male is interested in personal rate of sexual activity. What is his rate – high, low or normal? Has he any reserves or not? To find the answer to these questions there is no need to make sex marathons or  compare with friends.  It would be enough to consult specialists in this field – andrologists (andrology is a medicine section which studies causes, mechanisms and treatment of male sexual diseases).

After examination of biological age of a male, including ultrasound investigation of penile vessels, the male would be given to fill a questionnaire about his sexual activity. It is recommended to answer on those questions fairly.

When male body is OK but sexual satisfaction is low, more likely that peak of sexual activity is not occurred yet. In such men those things would come. Instead, if health is not OK and sexual satisfaction is high, possibly male has overrated his resources and his body stretches to the limit its capabilities. In this case it is necessary to take actions, otherwise male sex drive would go down.

Sex Drive In Men

One in four men in the world over 40 faces problems with potency. However, no one would uncover this secret to public.

Male may be triple Noble prize winner, but not less achievement he considers good potency and ability to maintain active sex life till aging. And for a good reason one of male organs is called manhood. “If the manhood does not work, most men see no point in life at all.” - declared Jan Erdly from European Association of Urology on Men's Health World Congress in Milano.

What differs real man from just a male is hormone testosterone. Simply put, male drive directly depends on rate of this hormone in the blood. Normally, male body produces several milligrams of testosterone daily which is enough to maintain and work on the whole body. Testosterone also is responsible for secondary sexual characteristics such as hair growth on face and body and base voice.

Testosterone is a key hormone in sex drive (libido), erection, sexual behavior and semen formation. The hormone testosterone also controls the development of muscles because it stimulates protein production in them. Without testosterone cannot work cardiovascular, nervous, circulatory and urinary systems in male body.  Testosterone has an effect on working capacity, creative potential, memory, mood and even character of a male.

Starting from 30 years, rate of testosterone lowers by 1 – 2% each year. As a result, by 50 – 55 years in male remains only half of the amount which he had in his youth. Some specialists say that the less testosterone is left, the shorter path to death is, because there exists direct connection between the testosterone rate and hypertension, diabetes, coronary disease and other diseases.

However, potency lowering and failures in sexual life (erectile dysfunction) worry males more than hypertension. And exactly fear of impotency makes males go to the doctor. However, most males first try to solve problem by themselves by following recommendations of their friends, and as a result other problems are added to the existing ones.  In women the situation is different. When women feel bad, they go to the doctor at once. Generally, they have no time to be ill, because they must take care of children.

Men must go to the doctor at once they realize they have erection problems. Here you must know that problems with erection talk about vessels condition. In male penis vessels are most subtle and narrow, that is why their work is most significant. Erectile dysfunction shows that male already has problems with cardiovascular system. Also latent diabetes is not excluded. So here the urologist would help. He would recommend to make test on hormones and sugar, consult cardiologist.

Secrets Of Male Sex Drive

Scottish scientists discovered that men who make sex not less than three times a week look 10 years younger than those who make sex 1 – 2 times a week. Scientists say that frequency of sexual life 75% depends on habit and just 25% on genetics. Today sex must be useful habit for everyone.

Feed your potency. Consume food with vitamins E and A for reproduction, vitamin B complex, which strengthen neurility of impulses through nerves helping to feel more strong.

Pomegranate juice contains antioxidants which help to widen vessels and improve blood flow into penis. In California was made an experiment in which participated 50 males from 21 to 70 years who had problems with erection. Each day participants drank pomegranate juice within a month. When the experiment has finished they said that their sexual life has improved significantly.

In Great Britain and Germany scientists learnt men to dance and discovered that hips jiggle like Elvis Presley improves potency. While dancing blood actively flows into penis. Dancing is the same effective as modern impotence medications.

Eating daily 100g of black chocolate helps to improve blood flow into penis and increases libido.

Strawberries and raspberries are best attributes of a romantic evening. Those berries are rich with zinc which participates actively in synthesis of testosterone.

Some time ago for potency improvement were used drugs containing prostaglandins of E group. Erection occured independently of desire and could last too long. Drugs of new generation (Viagra, Cialis, Levitra) provide much mild effect – their effect lasts at average 4 hours.

Erection also depends on muscles. Go to the gym regularly - physical strength and endurance improve potency and male libido.

Most higher male social status is – the most active he is in sexual life. Promotion increases potency but sudden breakaway decreases it.

When you feel you have potency problems, you must:
1. make blood test on sugar
2. check testosterone rate and make PSA test
3. make electrocardiogram of heart and ultrasound investigation of prostate gland
4. measure blood pressure in penis

Male Libido Facts

What should modern male make to maintain his sexual drive for a longer time?

Andrologists claim that each male has sexual potential for 15 women and not just for one. They say this reserve of sexual drive helped humanity to survive.

Potency decrease in 60% cases is connected with various diseases, 30% cases are caused by fears and incorrect partner's behaviour, 10% cases have mixed causes.

Wine arouses desire but makes it impossible to realize it. 50 gramms of strong drink daily leads to potency decrease. To assimilate alcohol, liver actively uses male hormone testosterone and turns it into female hormone estrogen. With age, potency decreases in males, instead - their breast increases.

Nicotine kills desire. The experiment, which involved 3,000 men aged 25 – 35,  revealed that smokers make sex fewer than 6 times a month, and in comparison with them, non-smoker males make sex two times more often.

Life behind the wheel and daily road jolting lead to disturbed circulation in genitalia and congested prostate inflammation. When you have no possibility to drive on good roads, you must choose good and comfortable cars which would protect you from unnecessary vibration.

Males should not consume more than 100 gramms of soymeals daily because they contain phytoestrogens which are similar to female hormone estrogen. Their excesses aggravates sperm quality and may cause infertility.

Researchers from Harvard claim that chemicals of phthalate group containing in perfumes and creams may cause impotence. Use organic cosmetics without chemicals.

Testoserone production achieves maximum at 25 – 30 years. With age it reduces by 1-2% annually and by 80 years is 40% of 25-th year old male! But it never goes down to zero!

Sperm of males who use cell phones more than four hours daily loses 30% of its best properties. Microwaves radiated by cell phones reduce amount and movability of sperm.

Only 10% of males with potency problems go to the doctor. Other 90% refuse from sexual life considering themselves impotents. However, andrologists say that there are thousand and one ways to bring back sexual drive!