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

Simple Runner wrote:

- consider meat as a condiment

I do. I put that shite on everything.

MyLittlePony Size12 Men's Velcro Straps wrote:

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. ?

Very pro-looking up studies here. In addition to being aware of the funding for a study, also check who the test subject population is. In both studies on running training/physiology and on weightlifting, the study population is often male adults with limited prior exposure to the selected exercises. They may have increases in whatever the dependent variable is (testosterone, VO2 max, etc.), but the same exercises may have minimal or different effects on someone who is already well trained.

Simple Runner wrote:

Enquiring Minds wrote:

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

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

That's pretty much what Michael Pollan says.

- eat food (the real stuff that grows on trees, stalks, bushes, underground, etc)

- not too much

- mostly plants

- consider meat as a condiment

Ok. the way i hear some people talk about being 'plant based' i had thought that it was another term for vegan.

I don't know, I have never really been able to do lifting due to lack of access to any gym and sort of chose running as my form of exercise. However, I understand that testosterone is associated with muscle mass and if you look at like say someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his prime) he was freakin huge and I assume that's because he had much higher amounts of testosterone in his body due to all the time he spent lifting weights. I assume that's also why crossfit athletes are also pretty huge compared with runners as they also spend a lot of time lifting.

as the slogan goes wrote:

Simple Runner wrote:

- consider meat as a condiment

I do. I put that shite on everything.

Well played! LOL

can't lift weights wrote:

I don't know, I have never really been able to do lifting due to lack of access to any gym and sort of chose running as my form of exercise...

You don't need a gym - just a bit of space ... I have a squat rack, bench, bar and some plates; and that's all you need. Those will last you many years and are much cheaper than paying years of gym membership.

It's not weightlifting per say, but your largest muscle groups play a huge role in testosterone production. Particularly your quads. People who do heavy squats tend to have increased testosterone production/

Large muscle groups worked in a weightlifting movement increase testosterone production

dfa wrote:

Try weight lifting! It will jack up your T levels and make you want to eat red meat and have s*x!"

You have it backwards. If you eat a lot of red meat (and cut carbs), you would want to lift heavy. And then you can be buff and ripped.

MyLittlePony Size12 Men's Velcro Straps wrote:

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.

will there be pics of your toasty taint?

"the way people consume animal products is even more extreme"

Most people eat their meats in the form of fast foods beef burgers and fried chicken.

testosterone function is anabolic.

the signal to the body - to adapt to muscle failure - is to build muscle.

which is to get hungry and consume and biosynthesize protein and food.

which means it is very unlikely that testosterone production does not go up.

unless resources are exhausted .

which they are not with classical body bulding techniques.

but this is not the case for distance runners, who routinely suffer from depletion.

these are the most basic of principles.

duh

can't lift weights wrote:

I don't know, I have never really been able to do lifting due to lack of access to any gym and sort of chose running as my form of exercise. However, I understand that testosterone is associated with muscle mass and if you look at like say someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his prime) he was freakin huge and I assume that's because he had much higher amounts of testosterone in his body due to all the time he spent lifting weights. I assume that's also why crossfit athletes are also pretty huge compared with runners as they also spend a lot of time lifting.

I wonder why; ?

Snarkatine Sid wrote:

MyLittlePony Size12 Men's Velcro Straps wrote:

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.

will there be pics of your toasty taint?

Of course... But hidden away in a cabinet of my local oncologist. ^.^

can't lift weights wrote:

I don't know, I have never really been able to do lifting due to lack of access to any gym and sort of chose running as my form of exercise. However, I understand that testosterone is associated with muscle mass and if you look at like say someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his prime) he was freakin huge and I assume that's because he had much higher amounts of testosterone in his body due to all the time he spent lifting weights. I assume that's also why crossfit athletes are also pretty huge compared with runners as they also spend a lot of time lifting.

You can pick up these things called rocks or logs. People were big and strong long before weights or gyms were invented.