am I the only one who found resistance training harder than the injections
Genuine question, and the title is the question: am I the only one who found resistance training harder than the injections. Protein was the whole problem. Appetite dropped and I was eating well under target without noticing for a month. Two scans on the same machine 20 months apart. Lean mass held better than I…
That is a trial average in a supervised population and you are comparing your own scan to it.
Agreed — protein and resistance training. Everything else in these threads is a rounding error on those two.
This. Same machine, same protocol, or the DEXA comparison is measuring the scanner.
Compared two scans from different clinics and panicked over a difference that was inside the error margin.
lean mass loss during weight loss is expected, the question is how much
Have the lifts held, dropped, or moved around?
resistance training first, cardio if there is time left
Kept the same programme for a year instead of changing it every six weeks. That was the change that worked.
Small fix — that is fat-free mass, not muscle mass. The scan cannot separate them the way the post assumes.
Correcting myself upthread: 8 months between scans, not the figure I gave.
Started weighing protein rather than estimating it. The gap between what I thought and what I ate was embarrassing.
grip strength and lift numbers are cheap longitudinal markers
protein intake gets harder exactly when appetite drops