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Title: Do you exercise less, about the same amount, or more than pre-Transition?
Post by: ChrissyRyan on June 06, 2025, 08:08:30 AM
Post by: ChrissyRyan on June 06, 2025, 08:08:30 AM
Do you exercise less, about the same amount, or more than pre-Transition?
Title: Re: Do you exercise less, about the same amount, or more than pre-Transition?
Post by: Annaliese on June 06, 2025, 08:21:50 AM
Post by: Annaliese on June 06, 2025, 08:21:50 AM
I didn't exercise really at at all before. I am now on a good daily routine. I have a daily routine that I get on my treadmill every morning at about 06:00 a.m. for 30 minutes. Prior to that it was just work out for 15 minutes. I try to fit in some time for upper arm workouts but I get lackadaisical on this. I never used to care about my physical appearance before, but this work out is really making me feel a lot better about myself.
Title: Re: Do you exercise less, about the same amount, or more than pre-Transition?
Post by: Lori Dee on June 06, 2025, 09:51:47 AM
Post by: Lori Dee on June 06, 2025, 09:51:47 AM
Quite a bit less, but that has more to do with age than transition. I have never enjoyed going to a gym, but I do enjoy hiking and backpacking. I spent a lot of time backpacking deep in the forest to scout prospecting sites that no one had been to in almost 100 years.
At my current mining site, I would spend an entire week there digging rocks. Then, after aggravating a back injury, it was down to three days a week. I haven't been out this year, but I get plenty of exercise packing and moving boxes. ;D
I have already identified four locations in Colorado that I plan to scout after moving. I doubt I'll be able to mine the way I used to, but I miss it, so I'll get back out there when I can.
At my current mining site, I would spend an entire week there digging rocks. Then, after aggravating a back injury, it was down to three days a week. I haven't been out this year, but I get plenty of exercise packing and moving boxes. ;D
I have already identified four locations in Colorado that I plan to scout after moving. I doubt I'll be able to mine the way I used to, but I miss it, so I'll get back out there when I can.
Title: Re: Do you exercise less, about the same amount, or more than pre-Transition?
Post by: Robbyv213 on June 06, 2025, 02:08:59 PM
Post by: Robbyv213 on June 06, 2025, 02:08:59 PM
About the same. I don't think I could ever let myself fall off from not getting to gym since it's been a large part of my life for the last 26 years.
My workouts have definitely changed though. Before it was the typical bodybuilder one muscle group a day routine high volume moderate to heavy weights to failure almost no cardio and training core occasionally but not regularly.
Now as I'm considering myself still in the beginning stages of transition I find myself going back and forth from my old style routine and a newer routine that's more in line with the typical feminine or gym girl routine with lots of emphasis on legs and butt. I definitely have been doing way more cardio anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and a half depending on the day and workout I did.
But for the last few weeks I've been finding it extremely difficult to find the motivation to continue to keep up with it. Before as a man I liked what I saw in the mirror because I had achieved what most typical men would want their body to look like and the attention that came with it was I guess enough of a high to have me continue to maintain it.
Now I don't really like what I see in the mirror I'm not really as masculine looking as I once was since I've lost a decent amount of size and muscle but I'm not feminine looking either I'm in between somewhere the awkward stages that I feel we all go through. And I feel even when I do try to be consistent day in and day out with my workout and training I'm still not seeing the results like I once used to.
For a long time I feel like going to the gym it been a chore and my heart really wasn't into it and now I'm feeling the same way is is what's the point especially if I'm trying to have more of a feminine physique.
On the other hand it definitely has been a nice change of pace getting to sleep in for the last 3 weeks when I would typically get up and try and hit the gym super early in the morning before it got crowded before work.
I don't know either way I think the gym and fitness will still always be a part of who I am and what not I just think right now as with everything in my life is going through a position for lack of a better word everything must find it's new rhythm and balance in place as I'm doing the same
My workouts have definitely changed though. Before it was the typical bodybuilder one muscle group a day routine high volume moderate to heavy weights to failure almost no cardio and training core occasionally but not regularly.
Now as I'm considering myself still in the beginning stages of transition I find myself going back and forth from my old style routine and a newer routine that's more in line with the typical feminine or gym girl routine with lots of emphasis on legs and butt. I definitely have been doing way more cardio anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and a half depending on the day and workout I did.
But for the last few weeks I've been finding it extremely difficult to find the motivation to continue to keep up with it. Before as a man I liked what I saw in the mirror because I had achieved what most typical men would want their body to look like and the attention that came with it was I guess enough of a high to have me continue to maintain it.
Now I don't really like what I see in the mirror I'm not really as masculine looking as I once was since I've lost a decent amount of size and muscle but I'm not feminine looking either I'm in between somewhere the awkward stages that I feel we all go through. And I feel even when I do try to be consistent day in and day out with my workout and training I'm still not seeing the results like I once used to.
For a long time I feel like going to the gym it been a chore and my heart really wasn't into it and now I'm feeling the same way is is what's the point especially if I'm trying to have more of a feminine physique.
On the other hand it definitely has been a nice change of pace getting to sleep in for the last 3 weeks when I would typically get up and try and hit the gym super early in the morning before it got crowded before work.
I don't know either way I think the gym and fitness will still always be a part of who I am and what not I just think right now as with everything in my life is going through a position for lack of a better word everything must find it's new rhythm and balance in place as I'm doing the same
Title: Re: Do you exercise less, about the same amount, or more than pre-Transition?
Post by: KathyLauren on June 06, 2025, 07:18:19 PM
Post by: KathyLauren on June 06, 2025, 07:18:19 PM
Less. It has nothing to do with transition, though, just aging. I don't have quite the energy I did when I was younger.
Title: Re: Do you exercise less, about the same amount, or more than pre-Transition?
Post by: BlueJaye on June 06, 2025, 09:47:49 PM
Post by: BlueJaye on June 06, 2025, 09:47:49 PM
More. A lot more. Transitioning resolved a huge portion of the depression I suffered with most of my life. And not feeling so depressed makes it a lot easier to enjoy being active and maintain a good exercise regimen.