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This rings true with my experience, what I found very obvious while on gear was I could weight train the same muscle group everyday no problem, whereas before I would need several days recovery between exercising the same muscle group. Strength and the amount of reps I could do also went up dramatically long before I noticed any significant increases in muscle mass. DOMS also became non-existent on gear.
Im of the opinion that the reason testosterone has such a dramatic effect on confidence and risk taking is BECAUSE testosterone so potently increases physical capability through augmenting musculature performance. The ability to hunt and fight ( for mates ) is obviously quite dependent on your overall physical capability which in turn is dependent on your testosterone.
Rather like how hunger hormones that have dual functions of increasing appetite and also simultaneously promoting fat storage.
ReplyThanks for the insight. Near as I can make out, T as well as steroids seem to have at least 2 modes of action, one being faster recovery. The other, as you’ll notice above, was massively higher rates of leucine uptake at rest. In a lot of the T studies, the subjects gain muscle w/o exercise, albeit they’re probably starting from a low baseline.
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