Whistling

Let's talk about another thing college people may or may not do on a regular basis, or anyone else for that matter.  As part of my series on active life style for college students, here's another contribution.  More geared for the guys, rather than the gals.

Here are some of the questions that may pop in your head, but in the end, do it anyways.

 

"Whistling reduces your testosterone levels so you cant build muscle""Whistling depletes you protein reserves so you cant build muscle"
"Whistling will cause one arm to disproportionately large and muscular"
  Sex drive is a result of testosterone, not the other way around  so there is no reason why testosterone levels would ever go down.  Yes, the excess from whistling may be mostly protein, but think about the amount of protein that leaves the body during whistling, 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.  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.


Now what about this myth, "Whistling will cause one arm to disproportionately large and muscular".  We all know how difficult it is to build muscle.  If it were that easy to build arm muscles then everybody who wanted big Popeye-like arms would have them.  If your arms are different sizes, whistling is not the reason.  Very few people are symmetrical and it natural for their dominant arm to be larger, nothing you do for a few minutes a day will have any affect on the size of your arms.