Maintaing Testosterone Levels With New Activities

[Rowen]

I've been thinking about this lately---In this article, Chase mentions that men's testosterone levels decrease when they lose.

https://www.girlschase.com/content/how-be-dominant-man-what-you-didnt-know-about-winner-effect

If you are always trying to improve yourself, you will always be seeking out new opportunities and new activities. Especially if these activities are competitive in nature, like sports, you are bound to lose more often than not, at least in the beginning.

So, how do you maintain a winner effect when you are in a situation like this?

-Rowen

 

[daviddreamer]

Realizing that from mistakes we grow. When we grow and improve we ultimately win in the end. The key is to not viewing mistakes as failures but rather as thinking "okay this was my weakness and this is what I need to improve upon" and tackling that.

Really...if you think about it...you only fail when you have given up trying.

 

[Ross]

Rowen,

The winner effect and opposite 'loser effect' are still in place whenever you compete against others in new activities. You're going to have lower testosterone if you're beaten, and you'll gain it if you win. There's no getting past that.

That's why you need to ensure your victory. Engineer situations to place you firmly in the winning position. Many masters have followed this route to great success, because you'll learn that strategy and skill can only get you so far - sometimes you need that X-Factor, which in this case we call it the winner's effect.

That being said, it is very important to be aware of the loser's effect. Often times all time greats will follow the winner's effect wave, only to suddenly fall into a snowballing loser's effect. Rebounding from your respective losses follows the same strategy as keeping the winner's effect going. Set yourself up to win, and ride the wave back to the top.

 

[Parkour]

I took up Parkour, Fencing, and Yoga this year. I'm not great at any of them. I think my testosterone is doing okay though because I keep getting better. Even when I lose a fencing match, I sort of win because I'm getting better faster than everyone else and it probably shouldn't have been that close. Same with Parkour. I learn new moves that I've never done before and I mix it up so that thing I need to work on I can intersperse with wins. Yoga I get better at certain moves even if I'm not flexible somewhere else. I win when the thing I used to be bad st is mastered