[Discussion] the sarcopenia question nobody funded properly
The title is the argument: the sarcopenia question nobody funded properly. Here is the rest of it.
Nothing here is a training or nutrition prescription. Targets and programmes are matters for somebody who knows your history and your training background.
Reduced appetite makes hitting a protein target a logistics problem rather than a motivation problem, which is why the practical advice here is about timing and food choice rather than willpower.
Strength retention is an imperfect but free longitudinal proxy: it is affected by neural factors and by being in a deficit, so it tracks tissue change loosely rather than exactly.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
protein and resistance training, that is the entire intervention
Removed a prescriptive nutrition target aimed at another member. Describe your own intake instead.
protein and resistance training, that is the entire intervention
Adding the free proxy — track a few lifts monthly. It costs nothing and it is longitudinal.
grip strength and lift numbers are cheap longitudinal markers
Small fix — that is fat-free mass, not muscle mass. The scan cannot separate them the way the post assumes.
DEXA has a meaningful coefficient of variation, and it differs between machines and protocols. Comparing scans from different clinics adds a systematic offset that is invisible on the report.
DEXA has a meaningful coefficient of variation, and it differs between machines and protocols.
Disagreeing with this line: rate alone does not preserve lean mass. The training does.
Careful, that is a nutrition prescription aimed at another member and this board does not do those.
Correction: those scans are from different machines, and the difference you are describing is within the measurement error.
That protein figure is grams per day, not grams per kilogram. Different claim entirely.
I would not change the programme on the strength of one scan. The measurement error is larger than the effect you are reacting to.
Kept the same programme for a year instead of changing it every six weeks. That was the change that worked.
FFMI is a ratio and it moves when either term moves
FFMI is a ratio and it moves when either term moves
emil_okwuosa is right that protein becomes a logistics problem when appetite drops.
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