Sex and weight training

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Does anyone find its hard to get in the mood for sex or even produce erections soon after bodybuilding ?

I find with me , after i lift weights my blood pressure is higher, my joints in my neck and shoulders and more stressed even if I use fairly light weights and because of this I am more likely to be tense.. And if your tense its more like fight/flight and its hard to be in mood for sex.

Its only after many hours of recovery that I feel relaxed again, less joint pain, and then in the mood to be happy and be sexually capable.

I find this is more true the older I get. It also happens than I don’t wear mones on workout days but I do the day after so maybe this has an effect on my sexual ability too (see my thread p75 and sexual ability in forum).

Another opinion is that after heavy leg workout blood is pumped into your muscles leaving little blood for penis erection. Aggression and anger and rage is increased. Blood pressure is increased by large factor.

During the night or next day my sex drive comes back raging provided my body has recovered.

I’m finding very good luck with 3 sets of exercises 30 sec to 1 min RI and breaking up the body into multiple parts to achieve recovery while preserving workout intensity.

Any comments?

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I often find a touch of difficulty - or occasionally some shrinkage - after doing cardio for an hour or two. In the case of the shrinkage, that tends to accompany cycling, so probably it’s just pressure on a blood vessel - certainly things feel a tad bit cold, like they’re not getting blood. But cross training or what have you? Slight difficulty.

As far as fixing it goes, once upon a time I used to masturbate a little after a workout, just to the point where it felt like things were starting to grow, to make sure I was getting bloodflow back to those rather important places. Seemed to do the trick. Strangely, though, I’ve found martial arts and other dynamic exercises (cycling issues mentioned above are on a static bike) to not produce those sorts of problems. Might be worth a go.