You know, I get the feeling of coming, coming all the time with this pump.
You know, I feel like I'm coming in the gym, I'm coming at home, I'm coming,
you know, backstage before a show. I'm coming all the time.
What s up guys, Jeff Cavaliere, Altheanx.com. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Athleanx.com
Arnold, can I have Jesse back, please? Oh, you really want Jesse back?
Yes, please. Okay. Did you see his amazing gains recently?
I ve seen the gains. Okay, hasta la vista, baby.
Hello, Jesse. What's going on?
Nothing. We've got a video we're making here.
Oh, what s this one on? We re going to talk about masturbation today.
Oh, masturbation? Masturbation.
You mean distributing some free literature? Feeding the ducks? You get in the kitchen
and mix a batch? Are you going to be
a five-year-old for this entire video? Oh, you mean play a little five on one.
Apparently, you are. Okay, so I'll be the professional here. You'll be the expert, I'll
be the professional and I'll talk about this. And it actually was sparked by an AX JEFF question.
If you guys haven't already done this, make sure you get your question answered in a future AX JEFF
video by dropping a comment below and I'll do my best to do that. Jesse, what is the question
here for today that has to do with this topic? So, our question today is: Jeff, you're the master
at knowing what's killing our games. This guy is just like you.
Give me the hard facts, masturbation is killing my gains, isn t it?
Cute little metaphors in there or whatever those are. All right. So where this all came from,
because I do want to talk about this sincerely, because I think this is a topic that many people
are interested, male and female, whether or not it has any impact on the results that they see in
the gym, right? And if it does, is it something that you might want to do in terms of changing
your habits? So, the first thing is it goes way back in time to the realm of athletics
that I operate and where guys used to be told by their coaches, don't have sex or masturbate
or ejaculate or whatever it is before a game because it's going to impair your performance.
I remember that. Right. And people would sort of
like either follow the advice or not follow the advice, but in the back of their head, they're
thinking whether or not it's actually having a negative impact on their performance. But I think
there's been a resurgence of this of late, and it had to do with that whole NoFap Movement.
Oh, I tried that. I lasted about six hours. I didn't have any higher expectations for you
Jesse. What this comes from is the fact that when you abstain from masturbation,
these increases in testosterone that they're claiming will lead to more manliness, more
attractiveness of the opposite sex, the ability to become more aggressive and to pursue the things
that you want in life. And also, by extension of that, if I have higher levels of testosterone,
the ability to build more muscle. Makes sense.
And it does, however, I don't know if I believe it, right? Because this was shown in two small
studies and then repeated over and over again. And the studies are basically saying that after three
weeks with just 10 subjects, mind you, that there is a significant increase in testosterone from
abstinence of masturbation over that three-week period. Also, another study that people will cite
has said that after just seven days, there was an increase in testosterone. There has been just as
many studies that have shown the direct opposite as often the case. They say that more masturbation
will lead to higher levels of testosterone. However, this begs the question, do these people
already have high T that made them want to masturbate more, or was that the masturbation that
was raising those levels of testosterone. Oh, like chicken or the egg?
Yeah, so there's a lot of confusion here. But I think all at all, there's a lot of reductionist
thinking going on here and it's not helping us, right? It's not helping us to get to the
bottom of this because the reductionists says that an increase in testosterone by
itself is going to lead to all these things. It doesn't consider the fact the interplay between
hormones in our body that states that when one hormone rises, oftentimes another will rise as
well to counteract that and to keep the body in the state of homeostasis. A perfect example of
this is one called SHBG, which is Sex Hormone Binding Globulin. That tough one for you?
Yes. Sex Hormone Binding Globulin. But
as the role of that is, is to actually bind to that testosterone, which will basically make it
less bioavailable, so unable to do anything, even though the levels have increased. Well,
what if that's going up at the same time in these studies that the levels of testosterone are?
You're not getting any real benefits. Right.
Now, I'll point out one thing, if this whole NoFap movement was based around the idea that we live
in an Internet age and men and women alike have become much more susceptible to, let's say, the
dangers of more and more available pornography. To the point where it can become problematic. And
that was the idea here, was to try to get people to abstain with an effort to try to decrease
what could become addictive tendencies, then, by all means, it's a good thing. Except maybe those
people that are suffering should maybe pursue. But from an ability to increase testosterone, to build
muscle. I've got a lot of questions about that. However, I think there's some other applications
that could lead to your ability to increase your muscle gains by utilizing masturbation.
Really? Yes. I'm going to go on the
side of you now, Jesse. Okay.
All right. So here's how you would do it. Now we know anecdotally, let's dive into the anecdotal
side of all this. We know that if we partake--I don't know I've never partaken in this activity.
If we partake in this activity, would you have any additional benefits that come from this? Well,
a lot of people will say, Jesse will say, you get this feeling of relaxation after it.
Yup. Right. And that's actually based upon
science of an increase in serotonin levels that make you more relaxed and give you a sort of lower
state of arousal, not that level of arousal Jesse, but state of being in your arousal that way.
Well, it was something that would allow you to become more relaxed, is it something would
have a better place let's say pre-bed, as a way of increasing your recovery.
Okay. And giving you a more
restful sleep. And what's interesting is when they tie this into training, they find that people
who train at a high intensity level will have a lower state of arousal. Again, this body arousal
after training likely due to the fact that they actually push it really hard in the gym
and they just don't have that much energy afterwards, then someone who trains at a low
to medium intensity level, they have a much higher state of arousal afterwards. Their
alertness is very high, and it makes it difficult for someone who trains later at night like I do,
to actually get a restful sleep. If that person trains later at night,
the first thing I say is increase your effort level, increase your intensity is going to serve
you both ways. Is going to allow you to get a better workout, number one and number two
is going to allow you to come down off of that workout and have a better, more restful sleep,
naturally, with or without the use of masturbation as a tool to help you there. But if you're someone
who isn't training at a high enough intensity level right now and you use masturbation as a
way to decrease that level of arousal, to bring you down to a more relaxed state so that you get a
better night's sleep, you have a more consistent, restful eight, nine hours of sleep that is going
to lead to an increase in muscle mass over time 100% of the time. Better recovery, especially if
you're a natural lifter, better recovery is going to equal better muscle gains because we know your
body needs to get that all important recovery. And if you're disrupted by bad sleep or too
high in sleep, you're not going to be able to get that.
Okay. So answering Albert s question here,
No, masturbation is not killing your gains, okay? But it might be something you want to explore and
if you need someone or an expert to consult, Jesse might be the person you want to write to.
Oh, all right. That s not very cool. Jesse, I ve seen your PornHub habits,
I understand. Hey, those views are going down.
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Yeah? You really handled that
one like a professional. I appreciate it.
I just want to You moth--