Weight Lifting, Yoga, Pilates, Dance, Cycling, Aerobics ……….
This list of fitness activities can go on and on.
When it comes to choosing your fitness strategy you must ask yourself three questions: 
a. Is it feasible?
b. Is it enjoyable?
c. Is it effective?
When you add this to a healthy diet, you are on your way to reaching your fitness goals.
While browsing the internet, I came across the “Ultimate Sex Diet” which primarily utilizes sex as a means to shape, tone and burn excess calories. This book was written by Kerry McCloskey, a New York based model and actress that lost over 20 pounds using the tools and techniques described in her book.
Would the Ultimate Sex Diet work for you and would it really help you lose weight?
Sex like any form of movement allows you to burn calories, research has found that you can burn “150 to 250 calories per half hour” engaged in sex (and “up to 350 if you’re wild”). Sex can also be a pleasurable and relaxing experience that can reduce stress and anxiety (reduced stress can aid in your efforts toward weight loss). Sex is also quite inexpensive, from a financial perspective, no gym membership required.
Kerry recommends that you have sex “three to five times per week, which can be accomplished by doubling up on the weekends”. So far this fitness strategy sounds pretty good but before we call our significant others and set up a series of rendezvous we should put it through our fitness strategy test.
- Is it feasible? The sex diet is certainly feasible if you already have a healthy sexual relationship with a partner you can trust. The time investment and the duration required to burn the amount of calories necessary to obtain a caloric deficit might be a challenge for some. One could work on their stamina/endurance through a more traditional cardio program to prepare.
- Is it enjoyable? Absolutely!!
- Is it effective? This strategy could certainly be effective but I would recommend incorporating more traditional exercise strategies into the mix as a means to vary the intensity of your exercise sessions and reduce the risk of reaching a plateau.
