Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: Cenna on December 01, 2017, 05:56:32 PM Return to Full Version

Title: Keeping up muscle on hrt?
Post by: Cenna on December 01, 2017, 05:56:32 PM
Any experience with this? I'm so use to not having to workout but I think I may start needing to.
Need a bit of strength for work and such - being strong is usfull and I'm not so worried about having visible muscle.  ???
Title: Keeping up muscle on hrt?
Post by: Deborah on December 01, 2017, 06:09:06 PM
Yes.  You can easily keep or increase your strength although you may lose some mass, depending on how much you have now.  I have been powerlifting along with running about 20 miles per week and body weight exercises for about the past six months.  Before that I had done nothing strength oriented for nearly four years and was getting kind of weak.  My testosterone has also been below the detectable level for around 18 months.  Despite that, I have built some decent strength quickly with 255 lb back squat, 330 lb deadlift, and 145 lb bench at a body weight of 175.  The bench is lagging because I started it a couple of months after the others but it's moving up steadily.  My mass/size gain has been minimal.

So building strength on HRT is easily possible but it takes some work, just like without HRT.


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Title: Re: Keeping up muscle on hrt?
Post by: Cenna on December 01, 2017, 06:49:52 PM
Nice!