masterbation calories burn

Hello. I'm 19 year old male and would like to find out some facts about masturbating.
You see, just the other day my friends and I had a debate: How many calories could someone burn from masturbating?
They tried to convince me that man can loose calories while masturbating! How this could be!
I know that for calorie loosing muscle work is needed. Which muscles are so active while masturbating, accept hand muscles? None!
Please tell me I'm right!

I would like to tell you that you’re right but I'm afraid you’re not!
There were many debates in the past about masturbation and calories lost there's no straightforward answer- there are simply too many variables involved.
Some of them are duration, intensity, effort, frequency, and even position in masturbation and all affect the number of calories burned during masturbation.
But reading some magazines about sex health I have read that you can lose between 100-150 calories for each act of masturbation.
Are these numbers true- I don’t know, but I know that calorie loosing is proven and that your friends were right about this.
Good luck!

no, that's not true. 100-150 is incorrect. on a cardio machine (elliptical) you burn 120 calories of ten minutes of vigirous movement. beating the hog is only using an arm...and imagination

i heard that increased heart rate plays a big part in calorie burning. that's why ppl use substances such as clenbuterol for weight loss. and everyone knows masturbation gets the heart pumping.

calories are a measurement of energy, really. technically, Calories are what you see on nutritional facts and hear about burning, which are 1000 calories. your body uses energy to do EVERYTHING. breathing results from muscle contractions forcing air into your lungs, your heart beat is caused by a contraction of many muscles in the heart, and of course movement, repair, digestion, etc etc. everything requires energy. that's why anorexics lose weight instead of stay steady.

off the top of my head without going into EXTREME detail, masturbation uses the following muscles directly...

forearm (controls fingers, thus, grip), biceps/triceps (controls up down movement of forearm), shoulders (controls rotation/movement of entire arm)

by directly i mean you INTEND for these things to happen. it could also use your pecks, abs, traps for holding your upper body rigid (which we tend to do heh) and quads/calves should you be so pro it feels good enough for your legs to quake lol. obviously more would be used like back etc. the intensity used is, as mentioned elsewhere, dependant upon the variables.

but those specific muscles aside, your heart will pump faster which is great cardio it's good for your heart/arteries and burns more calories than a resting heart, breathing hard is your diaphragm for working harder, the energy required to deliver sperm into the semen and ejaculate and reproduce the semen...

it takes a f@#$^&* lot out of you. it requires ENORMOUS amounts of energy. a Calorie is a big unit. a pound of body fat [for storage] is 3500 Calories... that's a lot.

if you want to lose weight.... don't. get healthy not thin. eat right, stay in shape, exercise, and have FUN. don't make your life obsessing over the next 3 pounds. take personal care of you and the way you look. shave, get a haircut, use cologne, but don't worry about your body.

be happy now, rather than waiting for later.

Here's to having a great time getting fit by touching yourself

I guess it all depends on how fast and long you do it for....could be considered cardio


Sex is very much an "exercise" of sorts. You get sweaty, work up and flush. You get the blood flowing and def. burn calories!

Have fun, be safe and use a lube

Technicly, doing anything burns calories.
Blinking burns a small fraction.. But I doubt that;s what you're looking for.

I don't think any serious calories are burned. If you could, don't you think there would be commericals with their merical weight loss plan?

"Take the pill, get busy and you'll be in that swinsuit before you know it!"

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calories are a measurement of energy, really. technically, Calories are what you see on nutritional facts and hear about burning, which are 1000 calories. your body uses energy to do EVERYTHING. breathing results from muscle contractions forcing air into your lungs, your heart beat is caused by a contraction of many muscles in the heart, and of course movement, repair, digestion, etc etc. everything requires energy. that's why anorexics lose weight instead of stay steady. off the top of my head without going into EXTREME detail, masturbation uses the following muscles directly... forearm (controls fingers, thus, grip), biceps/triceps (controls up down movement of forearm), shoulders (controls rotation/movement of entire arm) by directly i mean you INTEND for these things to happen. it could also use your pecks, abs, traps for holding your upper body rigid (which we tend to do heh) and quads/calves should you be so pro it feels good enough for your legs to quake lol. obviously more would be used like back etc. the intensity used is, as mentioned elsewhere, dependant upon the variables. but those specific muscles aside, your heart will pump faster which is great cardio it's good for your heart/arteries and burns more calories than a resting heart, breathing hard is your diaphragm for working harder, the energy required to deliver sperm into the semen and ejaculate and reproduce the semen... it takes a f@#$^&* lot out of you. it requires ENORMOUS amounts of energy. a Calorie is a big unit. a pound of body fat [for storage] is 3500 Calories... that's a lot. if you want to lose weight.... don't. get healthy not thin. eat right, stay in shape, exercise, and have FUN. don't make your life obsessing over the next 3 pounds. take personal care of you and the way you look. shave, get a haircut, use cologne, but don't worry about your body. be happy now, rather than waiting for later.

indeed. lol i think i'm in love with you!

There are many muscles working, not to mention what no one has discussed yet: It takes calories to produce the semen! The same way mothers burn calories breastfeeding children, men lose calories simply from the demand to reproduce the fluids lost.

So in addition to the caloric burn from muscular work involved in the "process" of masturbation, calories are lost in the subsequent production of new fluids (semen).

ok so check it out. everything you do burns calories. that statement about 120 calories of vigorious movement or what ever is false. say you sit in 1 spot all day. your losing calories each heartbeat, each breath, each time you move. by seeing, by any brain function or anything else associated with your body. basically your losing calories just by living. you need more calories when your sick because your cell need the energy to re generate. Thus what do you think happens when you ejaculate sperm? same thing there, youll lose calories by beating on it but the most calories lost will come each time you ejaculate. how much exactly i do not know but yeah