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…
a single DEXA is a number, two is a comparison, three is a trend
Correction: those scans are from different machines, and the difference you are describing is within the measurement error.
grip strength and lift numbers are cheap longitudinal markers
grip strength and lift numbers are cheap longitudinal markers
Agreed — and same machine, same conditions, or the two scans are not comparable.
Small fix — that is fat-free mass, not muscle mass. The scan cannot separate them the way the post assumes.
That is a trial average in a supervised population and you are comparing your own scan to it.
a single DEXA is a number, two is a comparison, three is a trend
usp_appendix is right that protein becomes a logistics problem when appetite drops.
Agreed on the error margin. Quoting a DEXA to one decimal implies a precision the method does not have.
Yes. Lean mass change during weight loss is expected; the useful question is the proportion, not whether it happens.
protein and resistance training, that is the entire intervention