Hello! I had a question about exercising. I've been on estrogen and spiro for a year now and I've gain a considerable amount of weight. While I'm happy about the breast growth I'm not happy about my stomach. I'm super paranoid about exercise increasing my testosterone levels and ruining everything I've been working towards.

I plan on doing Insanity. Yeah I've done other Beachbody programs but Insanity appeals to me because I don't need equipment. But will it "re-masculize" me even though I regularly take my meds. Stupid question, but it's really holding me back from exercising. 

If it is only cardio then it wont masculinise You - as long as You keep away from bigger weights in the process. As far as I have seen Insanity videos on YT it is essentially cardio and looks pretty much like aerobics to me Women have done aerobics, jogging, cycling for years and none of them turned out masculine afterwards - in combination with HRT, full body aerobics will burn Your fat, tone muscles and You will turn out to be much more leaner with long nice muscles instead of those bulky ones.

I train like crazy, did a two hour gym stint today. My T level is <1. Exercise will not re-masculanize you. Excess weight will cause health problems and a limit in enjoying life to the full.

I don't to heavy weights on my arms or shoulders, I get up to 80kg  on leg presses and do reps of  x 60. I'm sculpted not muscular.

Go for it and get healthy, it's great.

Good luck and enjoy

Cindy

Thanks! The reason I paranoid about that is that I came off hormones in early 2012 due to the doctor screwing with me and i saw all this progress lost due to that. So anything that I think would increase testosterone really freaks me out and makes me paranoid. So thanks! I'mma go try and not kill myself with Insanity. 

Let me add a few thoughts here because I'm a fitness junky after having gradually becoming extremely chunky over the years of having done nothing to avoid it. I have noticed that a number of fat and really unfit types show up at the gym, most especially after the New Year's celebration. They get on the equipment and go like a bat out of hell, work up a huge sweat and leave. This goes on for a week or three and you never see them again. It's because they think that a really hot workout for three weeks will undo what years of gluttony and being a couch potato will undo and they get disappointed and quit.

My best advice is to take it slow, use light weights with lots of repetitions which will result in toning, spend half the gym time doing cardio. Eat a light low fat, low carb salt and sugar free diet keeping around 1200 -1300 calories a day and take a brisk walk later in the day. Don't forget to drink plenty of water. If you are on a T blocker or have had an orchiectomy the the small amount of testosterone produced by the adrenal gland isn't going to affect your feminizing program adversely in any way. We need a small amount of T just like cis women do in order to have any libido whatsoever.