Testosterone: What's the actual evidence that weightlifting increase Testosterone levels?

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It sure does.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8107546/

When wanting to find studies try doing a search with the word 'pubmed' before what it is you're looking for. There's so much good stuff out there.

Be warned. Watch out for the agriculture industry funded studies. They're great at finding ways to "prove" that sat fats and cholesterol (meat dairy eggs) are great for you and dont make the body cancer friendly. ?

So your vegan? The only part of vegan that was good for me was going to eat some beef liver after attempting plant based for a week...I ran an easy 12 like it was 6 like an instant RBC shot

yeah i've heard that too. i've also heard people say that it promotes recovery. that just doesn't make sense to me. like yeah i'm going to go lift weights so i can recover.

You are wasting your time. The average person is too dumb to read and understand a study. Bro science rules the day.

Maybe vegan is a bit extreme but the way people consume animal products is even more extreme. Goes to show all you really need is some liver once a week. You probably could have gotten the iron and minerals other ways too.

Does "plant based" mean the same as vegan? or vegetarian?

It seems as if plant based should mean "mostly plants but some meat".

The average person is an idiot wrote:

You are wasting your time. The average person is too dumb to read and understand a study. Bro science rules the day.

Well, the average person would neither be too dumb or too smart, they would be average.

AdiVector wrote:

So your vegan? The only part of vegan that was good for me was going to eat some beef liver after attempting plant based for a week...I ran an easy 12 like it was 6 like an instant RBC shot

So triggered

yeah i'm curious tooo wrote:

yeah i've heard that too. i've also heard people say that it promotes recovery. that just doesn't make sense to me. like yeah i'm going to go lift weights so i can recover.

Yessss it gets the ol satellite cells working... Gets the blood flowing... Think of it like giving your body a point to recover too thats beyond just fixing the injury.

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Not vegan. I eat the occasional cookie and muffin old ladies give me. Whole food plant based is what im doing.

Ppl fail going plant based and kill their kids.... or worse, kill their gains.... cause they dont get enough calories from real food. Eating meat is infinitely better for you than chronic calorie deficiency.

Now im gonna go sunburn my taint. Namaste.

Well, not quite wrote:

The average person is an idiot wrote:

You are wasting your time. The average person is too dumb to read and understand a study. Bro science rules the day.

Well, the average person would neither be too dumb or too smart, they would be average.

The average person might be too dumb for a lot of things, whilst still being average. "The average person is too dumb to win a Nobel prize."

MyLittlePony Size12 Men's Velcro Straps wrote:

It sure does.

"testosterone concentrations returned to baseline levels at 10 min postexercise. "

Meh.

Maybe slight change during exercise, not really going to help your T much overall.

But lifting is awesome for you. Everyone should do it.

yeah i'm curious tooo wrote:

yeah i've heard that too. i've also heard people say that it promotes recovery. that just doesn't make sense to me. like yeah i'm going to go lift weights so i can recover.

You probably do recovery runs though.

dfa wrote:

See people & casuals throwing around "you got low T problems? Try weight lifting! It will jack up your T levels and make you want to eat red meat and have s*x!"

But what's the actual evidence here?

Seems counter intuitive that tiring out your skeletal muscles would increase with your s*x hormones

oh that's easy. Just do T tests on bodybuilders. Almost every one of them will have high if not extreme T values. See, there is your evidence.

the cause of the root wrote:

dfa wrote:

See people & casuals throwing around "you got low T problems? Try weight lifting! It will jack up your T levels and make you want to eat red meat and have s*x!"

But what's the actual evidence here?

Seems counter intuitive that tiring out your skeletal muscles would increase with your s*x hormones

oh that's easy. Just do T tests on bodybuilders. Almost every one of them will have high if not extreme T values. See, there is your evidence.

Or perhaps it's evidence that body builders take testosterone?

pr100 wrote:

the cause of the root wrote:

oh that's easy. Just do T tests on bodybuilders. Almost every one of them will have high if not extreme T values. See, there is your evidence.

Or perhaps it's evidence that body builders take testosterone?

Well, not quite wrote:

The average person is an idiot wrote:

You are wasting your time. The average person is too dumb to read and understand a study. Bro science rules the day.

Well, the average person would neither be too dumb or too smart, they would be average.

Well, the average person would be the mean of the distribution of intelligence but this says nothing about whether this average is adequate to understand scientific study.

dfa wrote:

See people & casuals throwing around "you got low T problems? Try weight lifting! It will jack up your T levels and make you want to eat red meat and have s*x!"

But what's the actual evidence here?

Seems counter intuitive that tiring out your skeletal muscles would increase with your s*x hormones

This is pretty simple, in all seriousness..

Watch how you feel after a 90 minute run vs..

20-30 minutes of full body strength that includes some of the following.. squat, deadlift, kb swing, bench press, pull ups, rows, jump rope or box jumps..

If you can't get the feeling your T levels get jacked up after a strength workout vs a tiring long run, then idk what more to tell you.

I love a good long run, but the feelings between a strength session and a long run after pretty straight forward to answer your above question. Just look at the guys that primarily lift weights, all that muscle mass is surely evidence they're not in a catabolic state or deprived of glycogen.

Well, not quite not quite wrote:

Well, not quite wrote:

Well, the average person would neither be too dumb or too smart, they would be average.

Well, the average person would be the mean of the distribution of intelligence but this says nothing about whether this average is adequate to understand scientific study.

Two levels here. How smart you think you are. That level is very high. And then you have reality, which is much lower, not even on the same scale. And everyone you know and work with isn’t buying the first level no matter how hard you try to fake it. They know.