Hey all,
I publicly transitioned four years ago and am almost two years post-op. About six months after my GCS I started getting involved with CrossFit and soon thereafter Olympic weightlifting. Anyway I was just throwing this out there to see if there were any other folks on the board involved with CF.
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I was big in to CrossFit back when it first started hitting big. the year I started was the first year froning competed in the games and took third I loved it..but haven't done it since my neck surgery I was curious how it would do for a trans girls body do you find yourself looking like the CrossFit girls? I wouldn't mind having that look I think it would maybe be easy for a trans girl to pull off that look
I use to lift weights and was training for the strongman event in the Iowa state games and I had issues with my cervical spine that ended lifting anything over 100lbs. Since then I have only tried weights a few times and I find that my muscles on the left side quit and it's probably due to nerve issues. I miss it sometimes. I use to like the farmers walk and pole flipping. Now it's enough just to walk a lot.
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I don't do CrossFit but I recently started powerlifting with just squats and deadlifts to improve my lower body and core. Surprisingly, my strength is coming back pretty quickly and is nearly back to pre-HRT levels in those two lifts (not that they were anything to brag about before :-).
One unexpected thing that is happening is that while I'm not directly working any upper body muscles, those two lifts are adding quite a bit of definition to my shoulders.
Conform and be dull. —James Frank Dobie, The Voice of the Coyote
I used to do it in my teens but a back injury/problem pretty much put paid to it.
I was advised not to do it after that, to stick to the sort of exercise that involves only the body's own weight, but I still do it. Not nearly to any kind of bodybuilding level, but just to maintain the existing muscle mass and strength. Luckily I have one of those bodies that doesn't forget its muscles easily. It's ten times easier to get any sort of result and to keep it on T, as expected. In comparison I feel "lazy" compared to what I would have had to do way back to get any such result. I've got better 'gains' on a third of the effort needed previous.
No skipping leg day any more.
Quote from: Randy1980 on July 15, 2017, 02:49:02 PM
I was big in to CrossFit back when it first started hitting big. the year I started was the first year froning competed in the games and took third I loved it..but haven't done it since my neck surgery I was curious how it would do for a trans girls body do you find yourself looking like the CrossFit girls? I wouldn't mind having that look I think it would maybe be easy for a trans girl to pull off that look
Haha, well let's just say I don't look like Annie Thorsdottir. In all seriousness yeah, I pretty much look like all of the other women as gas as body mass and muscle development, and compete at roughly the same level they do...
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Quote from: Deborah on July 15, 2017, 05:19:38 PM
I don't do CrossFit but I recently started powerlifting with just squats and deadlifts to improve my lower body and core. Surprisingly, my strength is coming back pretty quickly and is nearly back to pre-HRT levels in those two lifts (not that they were anything to brag about before :-).
One unexpected thing that is happening is that while I'm not directly working any upper body muscles, those two lifts are adding quite a bit of definition to my shoulders.
Conform and be dull. —James Frank Dobie, The Voice of the Coyote
That is awesome! I have lots of friends in the Powerlifting community. I did not start developing any muscle until after GCS, I was sedentary before, so I do not have a before baseline, but I pretty much suck.
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Quote from: Viktor on July 15, 2017, 08:06:25 PM
I used to do it in my teens but a back injury/problem pretty much put paid to it.
I was advised not to do it after that, to stick to the sort of exercise that involves only the body's own weight, but I still do it. Not nearly to any kind of bodybuilding level, but just to maintain the existing muscle mass and strength. Luckily I have one of those bodies that doesn't forget its muscles easily. It's ten times easier to get any sort of result and to keep it on T, as expected. In comparison I feel "lazy" compared to what I would have had to do way back to get any such result. I've got better 'gains' on a third of the effort needed previous.
No skipping leg day any more.
Haha, I totally feel you. Now that I am post GCS, and have very little T it is so hard to make any muscle gains. I feel like I have to fight so hard for any gains, even more than some cis women I workout with.
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I never used to wonder why I jogged, lifted weights, did all those exercises when supposedly a female.
But in 2010, I noticed that even my tiny terriers could easily out-run me. I began to wonder how to make myself able to run the same way.
I thought a while, then cut a sapling, grabbed some wire, and other things, and made a device I call "the gallopers," that made me able to run "four-footed" effortlessly, even out-running my dogs! I had to keep stopping to let them catch up.
It also seemed to eliminate gravity; I could go up and down steep, stony trails without slipping, or tiring, at jogging speed.
But to my surprise, just using this device a few minutes a day, or less, made my abdomen rock-hard, developed my shoulders, stretched my joints, and made me so limber I could lean over and put my hands flat on the floor and hold them there, for the first time in my life, despite being 58 years old.
Suddenly, I could do twice as many pull-ups and when I hiked mountains on foot, my stamina had also doubled. Strangely, my waist size shrunk also.
Soon afterward, I moved to Saraburi,Thailand, and my blubber body quickly returned-despite exercising desperately- before I finished ordering parts and making another pair of gallopers. But two days later, I was back in shape.
A young Thai police lieutenant with whom I'd exchanged English lessons for driving me to Khao Yai national park to do bird photography, borrowed my pair of gallopers for a short run across the courtyard.
The next day he showed up at my house, saying that he woke up with hard abdomen muscles and with such strength that he felt discouraged from wasting his time any more on his rigorous training exercises every night.
He kept borrowing my gallopers until I made him a pair in self defense, but only to use at my place.
From then on, he'd be waiting to meet my motorbike when I got home from work, and we'd play galloper-soccer for hours, at high speed, until the stars came out. Every person who tried out the gallopers told me the same overnight-hard-abdomen story next time I saw them, including a Thai girl who had only crossed the porch once on them.
I still haven't licensed them yet, as I've been intimidated by patent fees and paperwork, much to the annoyance of many people who want to buy one.
My last prototype can be folded into a small bag, and is even faster than the others, but for everyday I use a sturdy early prototype version pair that can't be collapsed, since it never breaks, to save the improved prototype model.