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Study: Shovelling snow is as strenuous, dangerous as having sex
By Jessica GentileDecember 30th, 2010, 3:00 pmComments (7)
Here's good news if you hate shoveling snow and bad news if you like having sex. Both are apparently equally dangerous if you're a middle-aged man. Following the deaths of several men who collapsed while shoveling snow over the holiday snowpocalypse, professor Jorg Braun, who works at a clinic in Hamburg, has been speaking out against the hazards of digging out your car by likening shoveling snow to being as strenuous as an energetic romp in the sack. And if either are intensely rigorous, heart attacks can potentially be triggered. In other words, it's probably worth paying the neighbor's kid a few bucks to dig out your car, so as to reserve enough energy for the bedroom.
Additionally Braun also claimed that, "Chipping away at frozen snow is particularly dangerous in the early morning when the body is still not functioning properly." That's even better news for those of us who like to sleep in and/or engage in a little morning action instead.
Commentarium (7 Comments)
Can you dig it? Yes I can!
Except, I love doing both! I guess I can hope that shovelling will keep me in shape for sex and vice versa?
Since I have a snow shovelling fetish, is it doubly dangerous for me?
At least there's no such thing as a Shovelly Transmitted Disease. I hope.
Poppycock! Here is a link to a study saying that `Normal' sex is the metabolic equivalent of light housework, with 3.3 METs for a man on top (1.0 MET is the metabolic equivalent of rest):
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/82/10/1203.long
Shoveling snow, with 5.7 METS is considered a moderate workout, about the same as playing tennis or basketball. The intensity of snow shoveling is directly related to how heavy the snow is, of course, which is why heavy snow storms regularly kill people with coronary heart disease. And you can probably same the same for sex, too: Having standing-up sex with your sister-in-law in the closet during a Christmas party will rev your heart up a lot more than having missionary sex with your wife in bed.
When I recovered from a heart attack, my doctors said I should resume regular sexual activity (along with moderate, regular exercise), but give up shoveling snow forever. That's advice you can live with.
Are you supposed to pay the neighbors' kid to have sex with your wife, too?? Ridiculous..
I've never suffered frostbite while having sex, so I'm note sure about the equivalency.
Now you say something