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According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block.

The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

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If you want it to go up to 180 go have a sex with neighbors wife.

Jokes aside, isn't 90s is good enough? What's your normal one and high one after exercise? I honestly never measure.

50 - sleeping

60 - awake resting

90-110 - walking, carrying things

120 - light aerobic exercise

130-150+ - a good workout

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Doesn't seem to be controlled for the fact that more of their hours are spent having sex than their non-cheating counterparts.

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend gets my heart rate into mid 160s sometimes. I never get there by walking.

I don't trust my garmins heart rate for anything beyond running. On my rowing machine it barely goes beyond 90 too, meanwhile I'm drenched in sweat. Must be something with the movement/positioning of the watch.

yeah, if you get the chance to be hooked up to a proper hr monitor while the watch is on youll notice its typically wrong. Still like having the tracking tho

Probably depends on the watch and the fit.

for what it's worth, my reading at my Drs office were in line with what my watch said and it's pretty good at tracking changes in intensity levels during a run workout.

i had the exact opposite experience at the doctors office. HR -20 from what the watch stated. but i use it everyday anyway

Almost all Garmins can be paired with chest-strap HR monitors (much more accurate than any watch) if you want to confirm it's the watch. It does sound like it's the watch!

>sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s

Either you're an elite athlete with a low resting heart rate or your girlfriends heart rate gets signifincally higher than yours :)

Or it's simply different ideas about what sex should be like. My hear rate certainly goes far higher than 90s, but people like different speed and vigour...

Um, it probably depends on how you do it.

I think this is probably true for more than just heart rate.

Depends if it is a quick 30 second lap of the block or a walking marathon around the block of manhattan.

I remember from an old bad novel the assertion that a gentleman never wears a watch to bed. In this case, I think the notion was that it implied he didn't want to linger past the end of the cinq-a-sept.

I'd be happy to tell you that I never wear a watch to bed, but that is in part because I don't have a watch.

You are extremely trained or she deserves much harder.

Or he's bragging that she "does all the work".

Who would brag about that.

Cardio is one thing. But it also results in a release of hormones - giving a sense of connection, meaning and reducing stress.

I don't have data, but I would bet $ that sex is much more beneficial for overall health & wellbeing than exercises resulting in a similar heart rate.

Furthermore, sex is likely to indicate that someone has a loved one (connection, meaning, social life in general).

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