Breakfast Bonus: The power of hugs

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Everyone knows that physical touch is an important part of life and hugs are a big part of this. But how important really are they, and how can they help you be better at... basketball?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam Hi.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. There's a
lot to be said for the power of a hug.
I mean, a hug can melt all kinds of issues
and worries and just it just feels good.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah, physical touch. I remember as a kid loving my
back being tickled or scratched by my parents, and now
I do it to my kids. Something soothing about it, rubbed.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And I still love a back rub mum anyone.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah. And I think touch does fade though, doesn't it.
You know, as you get older, least people touch.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
You get my needing touchy fix from my kids.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, I give you a hut.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Also, I'm a bit you know, it's nice to have
some you know, a little touchy for your partner as well.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
We not go into that territory.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
So there is a validated form of touch on connection,
isn't It doesn't have to No, no, it doesn't have
to progress.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's the problem with a lot of being. You can't
just satisfied with a hug, you know what. Deep And
my wife's accused me before that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh I give a bum steps because you know, it
doesn't have to go there, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Massage does though, doesn't it It does. That's where your
massage always with the shoulders, then moves to the lower back,
and then it's the upper bottom because there's always a
problem region to twight up a bottom. Yeah, you rub
them and then all hell breaks loose and you're either
swatted away or your bloody and so hugs.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
This is the power of a hug, right and just
a normal normal sexual hug. Wow, you can relieve stress,
build our immune system, so actually wards off illness. A
hug can ward off illness. Depends that the person you're
hugging a sick I suppose lowers blood pressure and boosts
heart health. So you relax, your heart feels better and
you actually feel good.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, relaxing.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
You can't just be doing it willing and ally though,
you have to be very careful like of course no
one hundred percent, but more than consent even greetings. You
know we've talked about this before. As a man. You
can't full frontal hugger, woman.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I think that's rubbish.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hug from the side of you be happy with the full.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Frontal you can't do it. I don't think there should
be limits to hugging. I think the more hugs the better.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I wish, I wish it was that way, but it's
just not.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
You hugged me every morning when I came in. I'd
be fine with that.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
There's etiquette around hugging.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, I just think it depends on the person. He's
a stranger, but I think someone you know. There are
like the awkward people though, when you hug them stiff
and they.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Get you that that's me. They're so cold. You're a
hugger when you meet people.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Not really, No, it means.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
You weren't touched nicely when you're a kid. You just
didn't get enough.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
But when you hug or get hugged, your body releases
oxytocin and side as to call that for cattle hormone.
Even a pat on the back can do one. As
like you said before, it's the whole touching.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Thing is the hard wrong, and then it releases the
other chemicals of fright and flight.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
So researches have found that even just a pad on
the back statistically improves your chances of a successful basketball throw.
What do you mean that's what they did? They thought, Okay,
so we know that the hugging.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
And touching basketball throw you shooting a part.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Free throw free throw. Yeah. So what they did is,
we know there's the value of a hug and value
on a touch. So these scientists in Switzerland decided, okay,
let's just take this step further. Let's see how effective
a pat on the back is. So they got this
basketball team and they watched sixty games of basketball and
over eight hundred and thirty five incidents of free throws,

(03:41):
and they saw that if that person didn't get a
pat on the back, they missed a pedal, that they
got it.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Now they's basket team.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
To do that, and they took it to another level
that is this just coincidence. So what they did is
they got them to fail, and they watched to fail
the first shot. If you fail the first shot, then
you got a pad on the back every time. Now
the second shot, every time, every time? Every time.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Did it not have anything to do with the fact
that you really screwed up the first one and you're
desperate to get this?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
They were statistically significant, But you can really elevate this, yes,
like at least not stop at a high five. If
you mate give.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Him a give, you give him a tunkers. It's not.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
It doesn't often happen in a game of US. Word
will be taking some of the other teams by surprise.
But I tell you what, if you can push those
dopamine chemicals up even higher, I'm there for it.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
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