9 Hot Sex Position to Achieve Weight Loss
Sex has been claimed to produce health benefits as varied as stress reliever and blood pressure reduction. Having sex once or twice a week has been linked with higher levels of an antibody called immunoglobulin A or IgA, which can protect you from getting colds and other infections. Healthy sex is also associated with weight loss. Thirty minutes of active sex burns 200 calories. These are 9 sexercise to keep you steamy, hot and sensual in bed while burn calories.
1. Missionary
This man-on-top position can strengthen the core muscle by focusing on pelvic lifting using the core instead of lower back. Stacy Berman, a New York City-based certified fitness trainer and founder of Stacy's Boot Camp said: "If your partner is thrusting toward you, you want to have an equal and opposite thrust back, and that requires a lot of core strength. It actually will start burning." According to Patti Britton, author of The Art of Sex Coaching, a good butt workout also can be done by doing more on buttock squeezes.
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2. Doggy style
"Penetration-from-behind sex engages the woman's core because she has to stabilize herself on all fours," says Berman. Put your hands on a wall in front of you rather than having it flat on the bed. This way you will be working your upper body to help thrust, and that would be a good shoulder and upper body workout.
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3. Cowgirl
In this riding-a-horse position, the lower part of the woman's legs are braced on the bed or floor, which will engage her butt and core. Pressing into the man's abs and sides with her quads or calves can engage those muscles as well, according to Yvonne K. Fulbright, a certified sex educator and author of Touch Me There!
Modifying the cowgirl position can work additional muscle groups. "To make it even more intense, she can come up onto her feet, almost like a squat over him. That's all butt, legs, and hips," says Berman. "If she gets up onto her feet and leans onto her hands, she'll also have to use her upper body to balance."
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4. Lotus
To get into the position, the giver sits cross-legged (lotus-style) while the receiver sits into their lap facing them. The receiver wraps their legs around the giver; both wrap their arms around each other for support. This provides a good angle for penetration. The giver and receiver together set up a rocking (fluid) motion to gain movement during penetration.
Like the missionary position, the lotus sitting position is one of the more passive sex positions. However, many of the same muscles worked in the cowgirl position are going to be used in this contortion: the core is engaged to stabilize the body, and the glutes are worked during thrusting.
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5. Standing
Standing is one of the more challenging positions because often the woman has to allow her partner to lift her in some way, says Britton.
If the man and woman are facing each other, core and upper-leg strength comes into play: if she's standing on one leg, those leg muscles are worked to keep her upright, and core muscles are engaged to keep her balanced. If she's wrapping both legs around her partner, she'll need good arm strength to hold onto her partner. And regardless which one of these contortions she's in, "she has to have stamina if she's standing," says Britton.
If the man and woman are facing the same direction, the same muscles engaged in doggy-style are used: she'll work her core for balance, and her arms can be worked if she's bracing herself against a wall or headboard and using them to help thrust.
6. Scissor
According to Britton, the scissors position is the least strenuous of all -- there's no suspending of body weight, and it generally makes for gentler and slower penetration (which would explain why it's often recommended for pregnant women). "Scissors is for when you're tired, not for being an acrobat in bed," she says. Still, that's not to say you won't still be engaging muscle groups.
7. Bridge
With the bridge, the woman is facing upward, using all four limbs to hold her body weight off the bed. All our sex experts agree: this pose is not for the weak. "This is a highly advanced position," Britton says.
Even if you pile a tower of pillows under your back to help support your weight (which Britton recommends), you'll still definitely be working your buttocks and inner-thigh muscles, says Fulbright. "This is going to work all of it -- her biceps, triceps, abs, glutes, quads, calves. Unless she's really strong, she shouldn't expect to hold this position for long."
8. Arch
The arch is a modified bridge pose, with a woman resting on her shoulders while using her legs to hold her lower body off the bed.
"In many ways, she's using the same muscle groups as for the bridge, only working them harder because she's using less to hold herself up," says Fulbright. Your core muscles, glutes, and thighs are all worked in the arch. However, Britton considers this a much safer position than the bridge: "There's no strain on the neck or shoulder region, which can seize up."
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9. Lunges
Like the name suggests, the lunge position has the woman sitting on top of the man, with one leg planted in front of her and the other leg extended behind her in between the man's legs. This move is good for the quad, front of the leg, hamstring, core, and butt, says Berman. "It'll also work the deep stabilizer muscle of the leg in the front -- both inner and outer thigh -- as well as stretch the back leg's hip flexor," she says. "That's great because most people sit at desk all day, and this way you can stretch it out."
Source: Fitness Magazine and Sex Info
