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Haiiii hii hii just want to pop in with a couple fun facts,
There’s no serious risk of damaging your joints from lifting, actually it’s the opposite. Resistance training will reduce the likelihood of injury throughout all stages of life.
There also isn’t really any hint of truth to the old myth “muscle growth is the result of damaging the muscles so they grow back bigger”. It stems from very early misinterpretations of experimental data and became something people just repeat forever with no factual basis.
Catabolism (breakdown of muscle) occurs all the time, and is usually balanced by anabolism (building muscle). It would be more accurate to say that “sufficiently challenging bouts of resistance training stimulate greater rates of anabolism for a period of time which result in a net gain of muscle mass”
Many common factors can tip the scale towards catabolism which is very bad for your health and quality of life (sarcopenia, menopause, HRT in some cases) and training is the best most consistent lever we can pull to mitigate those negatives. Women especially reap massive benefits from training, doubly so after midlife
I guess this post is about as factual as the arguments it's making fun of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The post is good! I like the post! Thank you for posting :3
I just like to shill for resistance training, it transforms people’s lives. Posts like these are a great opportunity for me to do so, where it’s mentioned offhandedly and maybe with a misconception I can talk about
I’ve had several people on fedi reach out to say these comments have helped them out in some way, so it’s just something I like to keep up with :3
The entire concept of muscle tearing has very little scientific evidence, it's still a thing we don't actually know.
Well, as long as you're doing it responsibly and working your way up.
(I did 200lb on the chest press machine a couple days ago, and my left wrist has informed me that this was a very bad idea. Luckily, it seems to be recovering, though.)
Yeah :3 Just based on teaching people to do various chest exercises, wrist pain is usually caused by holding the implement too far up the hand, creating a moment arm that bends your wrist open. Around 150-200lbs is usually when people stop being able to tolerate such a grip
https://stronglifts.com/bench-press/#Bench_Press_Setup
If you search this page for “bench grip” it will take you to an image of three hands, the rightmost of which has a red line and a green line. Best image I’ve ever found for communicating the spot. If you get it down you should feel no discomfort at all in your wrists