[Question] how do you actually verify DEXA
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: how do you actually verify DEXA. Three scans over eighteen months, same machine, same conditions. Only the third one made the first two interpretable. On comparing yourself to composition figures from trials. Published composition data comes from supervised populations…
Nothing here is a training or nutrition prescription. Targets and programmes are matters for somebody who knows your history and your training background.
Protein was the whole problem. Appetite dropped and I was eating well under target without noticing for a month.
Protein was the whole problem.
Adding the free proxy — track a few lifts monthly. It costs nothing and it is longitudinal.
Two scans on the same machine 24 months apart. Lean mass held better than I expected and the lifts told the same story for free.
protein and resistance training, that is the entire intervention
protein and resistance training, that is the entire intervention
constipation_club is right that protein becomes a logistics problem when appetite drops.
Tracked grip strength and three lifts monthly. Cheaper than scanning and directionally the same answer.
This. Same machine, same protocol, or the DEXA comparison is measuring the scanner.
This.
Disagreeing with this line: rate alone does not preserve lean mass. The training does.