Guest guest Posted June 22, 2002 Report Share Posted June 22, 2002 Ian, thanks for taking the time to share your weight training successes with us. This has essentially been my experience, too, combining CR with weight lifting. For me, extensive CARDIO training DOES provoke increased appetite, but heavy lifting does not appreciably affect my appetite. I also really agree with your assessment of how good it feels to get stronger and tighter from lifting. Gee...you've really renewed my motivation to practice good CRON. All the better to build muscles! You wrote, "My thinking is that weight-lifting might actually facilitateCR efficacy. If you can increase muscles that demand more calories, yet keep your intake stable, you force your body to maximize caloric efficiency." Yep, that's how it works. I strongly believe that weight training should ESPECIALLY be done by individuals on low calorie diets for just that reason. The benefits of lifting for prevention of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis have been discussed here before at length. But I'd also like to add that strength-training in the elderly can prevent injuries resulting from accidents--something else for us to think about since we're going to live so long on CR. However, unlike you, I"ve been getting delayed onset muscle soreness much more often recently. This soreness seems to occur totally irrespective of the intensity of my workout. It hadn't crossed my mind that something in my diet could be making the difference, so I'll monitor that. Maybe I can spot a correlation there. Until you brought it up, I'd been blaming it all on female hormones (or lack thereof.) Suz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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