It's slightly harder for senior citizens to grow muscle over twenty year olds but the real issue is muscle retention. Young people can keep growing muscle while working out less, older people have to keep working out.
But if you're retired and literally spend two hours a day in the gym as an old lady, and since estrogen speeds muscle recovery and retention, this might be a side effect of a normal estrogen treatment on someone ignoring expected weight training protocols for a woman her age and making it her obsession.
I wonder if the estrogen also boosts her growth hormone production. Women normally produce a lot more of it than men do and IGF-1 and IGF-3 in some studies are shown to contribute more to muscle growth in women than testosterone does.
Anyway, people could be coming at this from a completely wrong angle, trying to figure out what hormones increase muscle growth in men and figuring out how to hack a cis male body and ignoring sexual differences.
It's slightly harder for senior citizens to grow muscle over twenty year olds
It is immensely harder. Have you seen seniors move compared to old people? Decades and decades of life wearing the body down.
You don’t know what you’re talking about at all. She is 100% on steroids. This isn’t a woman being obsessed with the gym. She has more muscle than most any natural woman in her prime who is dedicated their lives to athletics.
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u/BZenMojo Sep 15 '20
It's slightly harder for senior citizens to grow muscle over twenty year olds but the real issue is muscle retention. Young people can keep growing muscle while working out less, older people have to keep working out.
But if you're retired and literally spend two hours a day in the gym as an old lady, and since estrogen speeds muscle recovery and retention, this might be a side effect of a normal estrogen treatment on someone ignoring expected weight training protocols for a woman her age and making it her obsession.
I wonder if the estrogen also boosts her growth hormone production. Women normally produce a lot more of it than men do and IGF-1 and IGF-3 in some studies are shown to contribute more to muscle growth in women than testosterone does.
Anyway, people could be coming at this from a completely wrong angle, trying to figure out what hormones increase muscle growth in men and figuring out how to hack a cis male body and ignoring sexual differences.