Snippit Sports Science Podcast

Snippit is made possible by listeners like you. Please help support the podcast: ► https://www.patreon.com/snippitscience      This article gained some publicity on twitter recently. We had a great time reading it and going through this paper. Language warning: This podcast contains a swear word.     Effect of swearing on strength and power performance ☆ Richard Stephens, David K. Spierer, Emmanuel Katehis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.11.014   Highlights Shows that swearing can increase performance of a task of physical power. Shows that swearing can increase performance of a task of physical strength. Does not find any evidence that autonomic arousal may underlie these effects.   Abstract   Objectives Swearing aloud increases pain tolerance. The hypothesis that this response may be owed to an increase in sympathetic drive raises the intriguing question as to whether swearing results in an improvement in strength and power.   Design Employing repeated measures designs, we evaluated the effect of