Quote from: Asakawa on January 26, 2018, 10:37:51 PM
Roll, you and I have very similar body types, I think. Some differences, but I think somewhat similar. How strong are you? Are you able to do, like, pull ups, single leg squats, and hand stand push ups??? If I can I want to reduce my waist measurement too and also under the bust while keeping the hips! Let's see what we can do girl!
I've never been able to do pull ups even when I was actually in shape beyond having the weird genetic baseline strength. I'm somewhat awkward body structure for pull ups and sit-ups, my center of gravity is unusual or something like that I think. People in worse shape with less strength could do them fine, but I just couldn't for the life of me. Single leg squats I never really tried, though I'm reasonably sure when I was in shape younger probably could have. Definitely not with the extra fat now, though even with it I can out squat anyone around me (it's probably my only real go to exercise at the moment).
I have always had bulkier lower body than upper body, in a somewhat feminine pattern actually (thighs and hips) to the point I always felt self conscious in anything but loose hanging pants (I NEVER wore jeans as a guy). Also probably didn't help the pull ups since lower body was disproportionately stronger than upper. When I actually went to the gym for exercise when I was in my teens I would always get weird surprised stares on the weight I did on the leg press(was like 17 years ago though, can't remember actual numbers for the life of me, but caused some funny comments from the trainer working with me and a friend).
Hand stand push ups, definitely not.
Way too much extra weight and I have crappy balance regardless. Single handed normal pushups, not a problem. I can balance on one leg just fine, but I've never, ever been able to balance on my hands, even using both.
In other words: I have a natural tendency towards easy muscle building and retention (all my father's family does, women included, pure farm stock
), but I never did anything with it aside from a few spurts of exercising a handful of times over the years before falling back into depression driven video game binging. Honestly, I've seen some crazy feats of lifting from my grandfather before he passed away (he was a physical labor until the day he died in his 90s type) and now my father even at 70+, but I doubt either of them have ever done a handstand. I suppose you could say that I have a genetic tendency towards more "lets go build a brick wall" strength than fancy gym work or borderline martial arts stuff. Which makes sense I suppose because we're super obviously Scottish background.
I really don't want muscle though aside from basic tone, I'm hoping that the family secret is the high T (as I mentioned, I measured at 1480 before starting HRT, which is well outside the norm and over double the average) and that the spiro takes care of that and I drop some fair amount of width all around along with the fat loss. I really want to be a smaller person.
