Recent tests have demonstrated that swearing can make you stronger
If you've ever lifted something unexpectedly heavy while uttering coarse expletives, you'll be happy to learn that psychologists have now shown that swearing aloud actually makes you a little bit stronger.
A few years ago Dr Richard Stephens at Keele University determined that swearing can have a pain-lessening effect. Across a pain tolerance study Dr Stephens discovered that subjects could submerge their hand in ice water for a longer period of time when repeating a swear word of their choice.
As a follow-up the team recently conducted two more experiments to try and understand the broader effects of swearing on strength. The first test looked at anaerobic power, testing 29 subjects to a short run on an exercise bike. The second experiment involved 52 participants undergoing an isometric handgrip test.
The participants undertook both tests twice, once while repeating a neutral word and then while repeating a swear word of their choice. Similar to Dr Stephens' previous pain tolerance study, the participants were directed to utter that swear words in a calm tone.
Across both experiments it was shown that swearing increased strength, either by way of greater power in the first cycling test or a stronger handgrip in the second test.
The new study still leaves us with the mystery of why swearing has these effects on strength and pain tolerance. After the earlier pain tolerance experiments Dr Stephens hypothesized that swearing could stimulate the body's sympathetic nervous system, which would certainly result in the observed mild increases in strength and pain tolerance. But in the latest study the team found no evidence of a stimulated sympathetic nervous system.
"When we measured heart rate and some other things you would expect to be affected if the sympathetic nervous system was responsible for this increase in strength, we did not find significant changes. So quite why it is that swearing has these effects on strength and pain tolerance remains to be discovered," said Dr Stephens.
While the mystery as to why swearing making you stronger still remains, this latest study offers a little of bit of scientific justification to back you up next time you swear really loudly when trying to move something heavy.
Source: British Psychological Society via Eurekalert
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You're G.D. right about that. The only inference that I have a problem with this was brought back to me when my son got out the service several years ago.They still say fuck in any many or shape in a sentence with no designation to it being a verb,adverb, or adjective. Actually thy say it so many times in a sentence that you stop listening to what they are saying because you are counting how many times they say it in each sentence.I remember how we all did it as well;o maybe its just like an ex smoker;they are bothered more.
Rich Haridy May 4, 2017Recent tests have demonstrated that swearing can make you strongerIf you've ever lifted something unexpectedly heavy while uttering coarse expletives, you'll be happy to learn that psychologists have now shown that swearing aloud actually makes you a little bit stronger.A few years ago Dr Richard Stephens at Keele University determined that swearing can have a pain-lessening effect. Across a pain tolerance study Dr Stephens discovered that subjects could submerge their hand in ice water for a longer period of time when repeating a swear word of their choice.As a follow-up the team recently conducted two more experiments to try and understand the broader effects of swearing on strength. The first test looked at anaerobic power, testing 29 subjects to a short run on an exercise bike. The second experiment involved 52 participants undergoing an isometric handgrip test.The participants undertook both tests twice, once while repeating a neutral word and then while repeating a swear word of their choice. Similar to Dr Stephens' previous pain tolerance study, the participants were directed to utter that swear words in a calm tone.Across both experiments it was shown that swearing increased strength, either by way of greater power in the first cycling test or a stronger handgrip in the second test.The new study still leaves us with the mystery of why swearing has these effects on strength and pain tolerance. After the earlier pain tolerance experiments Dr Stephens hypothesized that swearing could stimulate the body's sympathetic nervous system, which would certainly result in the observed mild increases in strength and pain tolerance. But in the latest study the team found no evidence of a stimulated sympathetic nervous system."When we measured heart rate and some other things you would expect to be affected if the sympathetic nervous system was responsible for this increase in strength, we did not find significant changes. So quite why it is that swearing has these effects on strength and pain tolerance remains to be discovered," said Dr Stephens.While the mystery as to why swearing making you stronger still remains, this latest study offers a little of bit of scientific justification to back you up next time you swear really loudly when trying to move something heavy.Source: British Psychological Society via Eurekalert
I have noticed the people that bitch the most about my swearing are those that call themselves Christians and drive by you on the interstate when you are fighting a flat tire.
I broke down on the Alcan and I had a Army E5 stop and help me. He probably said fuck 300 times in 30 minutes. Was damned beautiful.
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I had the same thing happen while fly fishing a remote area in the West. Me and a buddy broke down in his four wheel drive truck along a fairly well used highway. We got out and pushed it to the side of the road while trucks and 4X4s passed us regularly. Finally, a small sedan pulled over and a skinny little guy got out and asked if he could help tow us into the nearest town. He had a pregnant wife and a backseat full of little kids. He hooked up his tow strap to our truck and towed us into the next town. He wouldn't take any of the money that we offered him after he towed us to the nearest repair shop. It was funny seeing this little sedan towing this big-assed four wheel drive truck, though. BWW:
It was funny seeing this little sedan towing this big-assed four wheel drive truck, though. 
