No more bed checks - newsbites - sex prior to athletic competition - Brief Article

myth: Sex before the Big Game hampers the player's performance--in the sport, that is.

truth: For decades, coaches banned between-the-sheets aerobics before the big event. Sex reportedly required energy that's best conserved for the game. That's why coaches demanded curfews and bed checks. But studies have found heart and respiratory rates and exhaustion levels were the same whether athletes participated in sexual activity 12 hours prior to the game or not. The fact is, sexual activity and celibacy require the same amount of energy.

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