LIFESTYLE
SEX + RELATIONSHIPS
What is it?
The loss or lack of wood, boner,
pole, salute, hard on, or its actual
term of an erection.
Bodybuilding Boners
You’re below double digits
and your sex drive com-
pletely disappears. You
literally feel nothing. Not
even a little bit perky. Limp
as limp can be.
Let’s look at what trig-
gers the raising of the flag,
beyond a hot blonde asking
you to pass the salt. A case
study in 2013 actually looked
into natural bodybuilding
competition preparation
over 12 months. This tracked
everything from mood to
body fat percentage to rest-
ing heart rate. One particular
marker they measured was
testosterone and how it was
affected at 3 month intervals.
An acceptable level for your
testosterone is around 2.7 to
10.7ng/mL with the average
being around 6.79ng/mL.
During this case study the natural
bodybuilder dropped from start at
9.22 to 2.25ng/mL which is below
that acceptable or recommended
level. It didn’t even return back to
where he was until 6 months post
competition.
Could this drop in testosterone have
affected the ability to get an erec-
tion? Hell yeah!
KNOCK ON WOOD
It's amazing to see how really ripped the body can
get. Even if, for some of you, it isn’t sexy or attrac-
tive, you’ve still got to take your hat off to those with
the sheer determination and will power to get there. No
drugs/ all the drugs – they’re still really suffering to push
themselves to body fat percentages many never even
imagine is possible.
WITH THAT HOWEVER THERE ARE
SOME MASSIVE DRAW BACKS; SEVERE
HUNGER, LETHARGY, MOOD SWINGS,
CONSTANTLY FEELING COLD, SLEEP
ISSUES, FREQUENT URINATION- TO
NAME A FEW. THERE IS ONE BIG IS-
SUE THAT ISN’T REALLY TALKED
ABOUT AND YOU ONLY REALLY
DISCOVER WHEN YOU HAVE TRIED
AND PUSHED YOUR BODY TO
THE LOW LEVELS OF BODY FAT
THAT LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE AN
ANATOMY POSTER.
28 MUSCLE MEMORY
| DECEMBER/JANUARY 2019
By Gordon Greenhorn
Online Nutrition
and Training Coach
“NORMAL ADULT
TESTOSTERONE LEVELS
ARE NOT NECESSARY FOR
NORMAL ERECTIONS”
“..EXOGENOUS
ANDROGENS MAY NOT
IMPROVE SEXUAL
FUNCTION.”