The Real Reason Behind The Germany’s Failure
Sex makes you happier, more well-adjusted and stimulates your testosterone production. Everyone is aware of the positive effects of the most beautiful minor thing in the world. But what about the performance of the top athletes who have sex before important competitions?
Let’s take a look at the recent major event that left many Germans desperate: the World Cup in Russia.
After the loss against South Korea, Löw was speaking about lacking lightness of the players. But where does the lacking lightness, or maybe rather the light-footedness, come from? Did the players and their wives perhaps have too little freedom and have become somehow uptight about it?
The Mexicans however made it to the last sixteen despite their blunders against Sweden and did not have such concerns. It is even reported that the players celebrated with a 24-hour orgy before the World Cup. Very beautiful women should have been present at this party. However, certainly not the players’ wives.
However these debaucheries may have looked like, they certainly did not prevent Mexico from defeating the German team.
A sport psychologist and university teacher from Cologne is said to have given unusual advice to Jogi Löw before the tournament: “Simply integrate sex into the training program.” Source: news.de
Whether this advice was meant literally, to what extent it was heeded and how the practical implementation looked or would have looked like – we don’t know.
But how does anyone even comes up with the idea of giving up sex before important competitions in the first place? Whether voluntary or forced.
An interesting explanation can be found in George Orwell’s novel 1984. The regime severely restricts the population’s private love affairs. A party member declared:
“When you make love, you consume energy; then you feel happy and therefore you do not give a damn about your tasks. We can not let you feel that way. You should burst with energy all the time!”
That sounds quite convincing. Give up the short-term rewards to achieve long-term goals. However, studies show that this speculation has no scientific justification.
The American scientist Dr. Boone [1] examined two test groups in a study:
- Group A members had sex 12 hours before the test
- Members of Group B abstained
The performance of both groups on the treadmill was measured, including oxygen uptake, pulse and blood pressure amplitude.
Boone found no differences between the two groups.
Back in 1968, a study had shown that men who gave up the sex 6 days beforehand did not show better results in strength tests than their colleagues who did not have to hold back. [2]
Further studies prove:
- There is no negative connection between sex and physical performance.
- But rather positive effects on the general mood, balance and creativity.
So if even the fastest, strongest and best athletes in the world did not chose to be celibate, there is no reason for us, the normal mortals, to become such.
Everything’s gonna be alright! And the next World Cup is certainly coming.