SUPERDRUG has released the first ever ‘sexercise’ song designed to help couples burn calories between the sheets... and people say romance is dead!

The new track was created by a team of fitness experts who first developed a carefully choreographed sex routine to ensure optimum calorie burn and get the best bedroom workout.

Then music producers analysed the sexual habits of 2,000 British couples to produce a continuous 22 minute 48 second ‘sexercise’ track that compliments the average length of a UK sex session and encourages couples to pace their love-making movements to the changing beat of the music.

A spokesman for Superdrug, which has a branch in Cirencester, said: “Starting with a soft synth tune intro at 90 beats per minute (bpm), which sets the tone of what’s to come, the steady 110bpm build, to the exploding, big bass crescendo at 130bpm and then the sudden drop to a 100bpm dreamscape to finish, the track perfectly times the ultimate sexercise workout to incorporate stretching; warm-up; low, moderate and high intensity exercise and cool-down.

“And, with the average man burning 101 kCal and women using 69 kCal per average sex session, it’s certainly a lot more fun than pounding the treadmill at the gym.”

Caris Newson, head of retail health at Superdrug, said: “Over the years the many health benefits of sex have been well documented, from beating stress and relieving pain, to bringing couples together and boosting confidence, as well as, of course, as a form of aerobic exercise.

“We commissioned this track as a fun way to show the health benefits an energetic love making session can have.

As well as being available to stream free from Spotify, the new sexercise track can be downloaded free from superdrug.com/sexercise