Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes. 
subtitled: “A calorie-neutral, drug-free, low-cost, readily available tool for when we need a boost in performance.” 

As it turns out, hurling out a profanity might actually cause something called a “hypoalgesic effect."

Hypoalgesia, as far as I understand it, it the effect of reducing the intensity of pain.  Athletes recognize it as the 'pain or burn' you repeatedly push through until it's not really there anymore.  Housewives of old became tolerant of scalding hot water.  Pain is pain, but how it short-circuits you is another thing entirely...

Enter "curse words" or swearing...

Quote:...

For that study, Stephens and his colleagues asked 67 study participants (college students) to immerse their hands in a bucket of ice water. They were then instructed to either swear repeatedly using the profanity of their choice or chant a neutral word. Lo and behold, the participants said they experienced less pain when they swore and were also able to leave their hands in the bucket about 40 seconds longer than when they weren’t swearing. It has been suggested that this is a primitive reflex that serves as a form of catharsis.

The team followed up with a 2011 study showing that the pain-relief effect works best for subjects who typically don’t swear that often, perhaps because they attach a higher emotional value to swears. They also found that subjects’ heart rates increased when they swore. But it might not be the only underlying mechanism. Other researchers have pointed out that profanity might be distracting, thereby taking one’s mind off the pain rather than serving as an actual analgesic.

So in 2020, the Stephens team conducted a follow-up study, using the same methodology as they had back in 2009, asking participants to either chant the F-word or the fake swears “fouch” and “twizpipe.”

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Go out and work on your car when it's 20 and have a wrench slip. You will invent a whole new vocabulary.

This year fucking sucked.

Glad it's fucking almost over.

Can't wait for fucking 2026.

Amazingly, it is more than just "The F word" that makes this magic happen...

They tested folks lifting heavy weights.... curse words come out and... stronger!  Boom baby!

Please read the article.

OK everyone who might care...

I'm feeling a bit embarrassed about the thread title...

I will change the curse word to something less visceral and shock-worthy...

sorry if that seem's shitty.  

(12-25-2025, 06:48 PM)Maxmars Wrote: OK everyone who might care...

I'm feeling a bit embarrassed about the thread title...

I will change the curse word to something less visceral and shock-worthy...

sorry if that seem;s shitty.  

What the fuck?

(12-25-2025, 06:49 PM)DBCowboy Wrote: What the fuck?

You feel better? 

(12-25-2025, 06:52 PM)Maxmars Wrote: You feel better? 

I will in 2026!

Fuck yeah!

(12-25-2025, 04:55 PM)Maxmars Wrote: Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes. 
subtitled: “A calorie-neutral, drug-free, low-cost, readily available tool for when we need a boost in performance.” 

As it turns out, hurling out a profanity might actually cause something called a “hypoalgesic effect."

Hypoalgesia, as far as I understand it, it the effect of reducing the intensity of pain.  Athletes recognize it as the 'pain or burn' you repeatedly push through until it's not really there anymore.  Housewives of old became tolerant of scalding hot water.  Pain is pain, but how it short-circuits you is another thing entirely...

Enter "curse words" or swearing...

I read the paper, because I lurve measurable data, however I already knew the healing power of curse words.  ANY time an adverse thing happens, you bark your shins on something, you hit your head, the injury is instantly assuaged by cursing.   It is our little gift from God.

(12-25-2025, 06:48 PM)Maxmars Wrote: OK everyone who might care...

I'm feeling a bit embarrassed about the thread title...

I will change the curse word to something less visceral and shock-worthy...

sorry if that seem's shitty.  

I’m still telling Mom!