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Anonymous
Dear /fit/
I go to the gym every day, drink whey shakes, etc etc. I also masturbate almost daily. Assuming I'm properly nourished & hydrated, well masturbation affect my gains?

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>> Anonymous
>>263092
>>263093

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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
POSSIBLY
>> Anonymous
IT DEPENDS ON IF BY 'GAINS' YOU MEAN BLINDNESS AND HAIRY PALMS
>> Anonymous
lookin kinda /b/ there...
>> Anonymous
>>263101
Dude, come on, with a question this fucking retarded, what kind of answers do you expect?
>> Anonymous
bump for the lulz
>> Anonymous
Someone came up with this reasonable explanation to why masturbation could harm your performance. I'll try to recreate it...

Semen is composed of substances released from three accessory glands in the male gonads. One of these glands secretes a substance consisting of amino acids and simple sugars to aid as a nutrient source for the semen and its trip out of the penis and, hopefully, into a human vagina.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, but ultimately the body. By masturbating oftenly, one is depleting their protein sources, thus breaking down muscle tissue in order to provide for seminal fluid.

TaDa.
>> Anonymous
>>263190

i would think i'd have to jerk off 20 times a day to see any detrimental effect
>> Anonymous
>>263191
Exactly... the only reason to see truth in my previous explanation is if you masturbate, like you said, way too much daily.
>> Anonymous
http://fitness.scoobysworkshop.com/mythmasturbation.htm

"Surprisingly I have gotten many questions about this subject otherwise it would have never occurred to me to include this but apparently there are many myths about bodybuilding and masturbation. Lets take the first one, "Masturbation reduces your testosterone levels so you cant build muscle". Sex drive is a result of testosterone, not the other way around. There has never been a study which even hinted that masturbation might reduce testosterone levels. Lets take the second one "Masturbation depletes you protein reserves so you cant build muscle". OK, this is just ridiculous. Think about the amount of protein that leaves the body during masturbation, maybe 5g, and compare that to the daily protein intake of a bodybuilder which is approx 200g. Another way to think about this, if this were true it would mean that no elite athletes would ever be allowed to have sex. With all the money in pro sports, you can be sure that if there were any truth at all to this that coaches across the country would demand total abstinence from all their team members. The grain of truth that probably got these myths started comes from the fact that typically after release, the person is very relaxed/tired. I have also heard people say that various other trace elements, like zinc for example, are expelled from the body during release which just does not make sense. Why would evolution favor a someone who routinely got rid of essential trace elements and make himself weak doing it? High testosterone levels correspond with high fertility and increased sexual activity, it makes no evolutionary sense whatsoever that this sexual activity would weaken the body because the evolutionary goal is to produce as many strong offspring as possible."
>> Anonymous
>>263200


That's even an incredibly large estimate of the amount of protein in human ejaculate. Try 1/10th of a gram.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_054.html
>> Anonymous
I would say that at the most one arm would be slightly larger that the other, other than that you would be in the clear...just hope no one notices.
>> Anonymous
>>263225
You would have to jerk it quite furiously an many times a day for the size difference to be caused by masturbation.
>> Anonymous
If it worries you that much, swallow your cum. Save you time on cleanup too.