Research Claims That Swearing During Workouts Might Aid Better Results

Next time you’re sweating like a pig in your gym, instead of taking selfies to boast your body on Instagram, try swearing.

Yes, you heard that right. Drop the F-Bomb in the middle of your workouts.

A joint research conducted by The UK’s Keele University and Long Island University in Brooklyn set out to find if yelling slurs and screaming out-of-the-syllabus rants were beneficial during workouts.

And to much of their surprise, it indeed was.

The study found that swearing made people strong. Swearing produced more power in the anaerobic workouts and gave the participants a stronger grip.

Swearing enabled people to tolerate pain as it stimulated the body’s sympathetic nervous system– the system that’s responsible to make your heart pound faster in the times of danger.

One of the study’s author, Richard Stephens said that–

During cycling, the group that was asked to swear performed 4.6 per cent better than the group that was asked to perform the same task without the swearing.

In the hand grip test, people who yelled cusses performed 8 per cent better than the folks who did not.