Can Avoiding Sex Help You Win a Game?

A few soccer teams are banning their players from having sex while they are competing in the World Cup! Will this help the players perform better? Laci is joined by Steve Zaragoza from SourceFed to discuss if players are better when they're abstinent.

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Does Sex the Night Before Competition Decrease Performance?
http://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/f...
"For many years, football coaches, Olympic athletes, and even Muhammad Ali have advocated sexual abstinence the night before an athletic event."

Sex and Sports: Should Athletes Abstain Before Big Events?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ne...
"The Winter Olympics may offer plenty of excitement, but there's at least one type of action that many of the athletes are strictly avoiding: sex."

Ask the Doc: Does abstinence really boost athletic performance?
http://mmajunkie.com/2009/03/ask-the-...
"In the world of sports, it's one of the most common beliefs regarding peak athletic performance."

The effects of exogenous testosterone on sexuality and mood of normal men
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14...
"The effects of supraphysiological levels of testosterone, used for male contraception, on sexual behavior and mood were studied in a single-blind, placebo-controlled manner in a group of 31 normal men."

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