reading resistance training threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
Thinking out loud about this: reading resistance training threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. On comparing yourself to composition figures from trials. Published composition data comes from supervised populations with structured protocols, standardised scanning, and analysis populations that have been…
How many weeks between the two scans?
resistance training first, cardio if there is time left
Same DEXA machine both times?
the same DEXA machine or it is not a comparison
Push back: strength dropping in a deficit is not the same as lean mass loss. Related, not identical.
protein intake gets harder exactly when appetite drops
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.