1 year on e and I am actually SO weak now, I had to ask my dad to put some weights back on the rack for me when we went to the gym 😭
I used to be able to do 450lb leg press 5 times in a row what happened
I don't absolutely hate myself anymore so that's going for me :steamhappy:
Someone linked a study on this a while ago. IIRC it's a 20-30% strength loss on average, depending on the ability you're testing?
yeah same for me. i lost quite a bit of stamina over the last few weeks. i can literally feel my heart beat just from taking a walk these days. it's insane. i should do some fitness training explicitely.
I got a bit confused why someone had the number "i" in the picture.
Thats the i in the team
It's not really an i, that's just imaginary.
my 6'2" ass missing every shot
Ah, I see the issue. You usually use your arms to play basketball not your ass!
Why are you shooting? Just reach up and put it in the basket...
I've been 9 years on E and if anything I think I got stronger, because I feel more in touch with my body. I guess this just works different for everyone ._.
I didn't lose as much strength as I thought I would, but that's just because I was as weak as physically possible before HRT. Losing as much strength as others would've put me below basic resting muscle mass
That last part is super important though 😭🙏❤️🩹
Meh. That's what hydraulics and heavy machinery are for.
right, who needs muscles when you're forklift certified
It's unfair to the forklift certified cis women to have a forklift certified trans woman in the employee roster /s
they can compensate with more muscles
...please
I have to actually work out now so my shoulder stays in place now.
I don't think the AirBud rule applies to heavy machinery. Can you even fit a jersey over a excavator?
nyaaaaaaaaa, i always was weak as hell, weaker than anyone, cuz i think because im kitty actually
Cats are pretty fucking athletic.
mprpmrpmr depends, my kid tishka is pretty weak n lazy too, very lazy until he need bite me, but mary is pretty fast and movable kitty and doesnt eat as much as tishka
At least you got to be featured in a story by the famous Legitimate Journalist Name (LeJo Nombre to his friends), though!
I have the same issue, I now no longer can open jars as easily 🥲
Get a cheap pair of rubber coated work gloves for your kitchen. They make jars easy to open.
They can be used to handle hot stuff too, if it’s not for long or not very hot but still too hot for bare hands.
They look like this:
Yeah, we have had this little rubber pad kicking around in a drawer that we always used to open cans. More grip makes it a lot easier.
Time for strategy to replace brawn. Most jars will open easily if you can release the vacuum. Imho the best thing to use is a bottle opener/can piercer, using the rounded end and very gently just barely lifting the edge of the lid. You don't want to break/chip any glass or bend the lid so far its functionality is compromised.
I was taught to whack the edge of the jar with the dull side of a butter knife. This releases the vacuum.
It dull side doesn't work, hit the jar edge with the handled of the knife.
That usually works but then there's the time it releases the vacuum by breaking the jar. Maybe it's because I'm a klutz but my mom taught me the slow and gentle way.
She did let me whack the Pillsbury though
i heard somewhere that its not actually only strength that makes it easier for men to open jars, but something to do with the skin. like something to do with the reason their skin is rougher gives them more grippy hands, so they actually just need less physical strength than a woman to open a jar. that would mean even if a man and a woman had the same grip strength and hand size/shape, there would be a jar that the man could open but the woman could not.
I'm a cis dude with dainty little white piano player hands
pls don't make me open ur beer, i will bleed
lol as a piano player I feel like my hands get quite a bit of exercise
And in general piano players are known for having quite large hands (although that's by no means universal) it really makes some things quite a lot easier. I think it also trains you to stretch your handspan more than non-piano-players can with equivalently sized hands, although I'm sure that won't help you open a beer ofc.
I feel bad for laughing but lol
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