Continue reading Working Out and Intimacy Many experts and doctors believe that couples that work out and exercise have more frequent and better intimate encounters with each other.  Most of my readers could vouch for that in their households and it seemed especially true when they worked out together.  That got me to wonder if this phenomenon goes back to the sweat dripping bodies dispensing hormones and awakening our inner beast or do we just feel better about our bodies which causes us to be more uninhibited and sexual.  That thought forced me to pose the question, is the exercise and intimacy connection a physical attribute or a mental process?  Just like most things I believe it is a mixture of both attributes.

When we work out, physically our bodies are in better shape.  Blood flows better, we feel better and most importantly, we get an influx of energy that seems to last much longer than when we are sedentary.  Think about the following statement for a minute and see if it sounds true about your life.  When we are relatively sedentary we get home from work or we spend all day with the kids and when everything seems to finally settle down at night what happens?  Right, we don’t want to do anything but to go to sleep or to just lay and not be bothered, especially by our sex craving spouse.  When we exercise and work out we have a propensity to be more energetic throughout the day.  When we exercise regularly our bodies are not as tired and we have more stamina.  Adding all these factors together means that we are more apt to want to spend the night hours performing intimate exercises with our spouses instead of just lounging out on the coach and ignoring our time alone together.  Of course it is ok to want to relax from time to time as well; I’m talking about those relationships where neither exercise nor intimacy has much of an existence.

Mentally, exercising makes us feel better about ourselves.  We become confident and more willing to show others how great our bodies are.  There is more blood flow into the brain for better thought and we become more in love with ourselves.  I’m not talking about the egotistical pompous self love but a healthy respect for our own bodies.  With this confidence and self respect we smile more and make others around us feel better.  I think that this comfort level with our bodies increases our inner sexiness and we just fall in love with making love.  And like with many things, the more you do it and enjoy it the more you want to do it and enjoy it.  Human naturally like to feel good!!!

We all know that exercising is good for your health but it has other benefits as well.  More exercising and better health means more intimate times with our special loved one which in turn creates a happier marriage for both of you.  After all, sex and intimacy plays a major role in long and happy marriages.  I don’t know of too many couples who are happily married for a long time who are not regularly intimate with one another.