Top 5 Physical Benefits of Making Love

While making love is an enjoyable activity it is also one of the best things you can do for your body physically. Making love is beneficial for your entire body, physically as well as emotionally. Have a look at the top 5 physical benefits of making love.

Physical Benefits of Making Love- Burns Calories

Any physical activity, and especially one that can be so intense burns calories. Burning calories is good for your whole body and helps improve your metabolism. What better way can you think of to lose weight than by being intimate?

Physical Benefits of Making Love- Muscle Strength

You don't need to be an adult film star or practice the Kama Sutra to improve your muscle strength while making love. Making love uses almost every muscle in your body, even in a standard missionary position and can do wonders for the shoulders and arms, as well as chest and legs. Certain positions are also excellent for toning the buttocks and abs. Doesn't making love sound much more enjoyable than doing situps and pushups?

Physical Benefits of Making Love- Circulation and Heart Rate

A good sex session will get your heart pumping and your blood flowing, and not just to certain areas as many think. Increasing your heart rate is one of the key points of most exercise programs, so making love can be considered an aerobic exercise, and much more fun than "Sweatin' to the Oldies".

Physical Benefits of Making Love- Increased Energy

As with any physical exercise making love improves your stamina and endurance as well as leaving you feeling energized. Now this doesn't mean you will want to spring up from the bed late and night and clean the house, but making love will leave you sated and you will sleep well so that you wake feeling revitalized.

Physical Benefits of Making Love- Curing a Headache

For all of you who use the old "I have a headache" statement to avoid sex, your excuse is flimsy. Making love can actually relieve stress, anxiety and leave your body relaxed and feeling good, what this means is that having sex is a good cure for that headache. Ditch the Tylenol and grab your sweetie the next time you feel that nagging head pain begin.

As always you should take care of birth control issues, practice safe sex, and if possible be in a monogamous relationship with a tested and safe partner. But your sexual activity choices and decisions are up to you. When you are safe, and comfortable with your sexuality and activity you will reap even more benefits from making love. Besides being fun, and keeping you and your partner happy, you will be physically healthier and emotionally stable after a good roll in the hay.

Resources: Mayo Clinic, LifeScript Healthy Advantage