So a lot of the changes that are introduced by taking estrogen sound pretty cool. Kinda goes without saying in this community, but I’ll say it anyway, and you can’t stop me.
- Softer skin (fuck yeah)
- Bodyhair growing thinner (fuck yeah)
- New bodyfat gets placed where other women have it too (actual shape-shifting, how cool is that)
- Reduction in testicular volume (does that mean they won’t be in the way all the time anymore? Sounds great, actually. Fuckers only exist to get squished when I want to sleep on my side. Absolute design flaw.)
What I’m not quite understanding yet is the effects on muscle mass.
Do you lose existing muscle mass?
Do you decrease the potential for future muscle growth?
Or is it both, even?
Either way, I guess I’ll shift more focus to lower-body excercises to counter-act my shoulders. The Glutes are by far some of the most important muscles in the history of humankind, after all.
So anyway, I hope you’re all doing good, and have a nice weekend
Muscles, like everything else in your body, are always dying and being replaced. Growth will slow and overtime they will atrophy even with exercise as replacement growth is slower.
Individual genetics vary a lot but in general once everything has normalised in 5 years or so if you’re the soft of person that strength trains regularly you can be expected to be about as strong as a man who never does any manual work.
It is what it is.
I’ll gladly trade some muscle for all the other benefits. Guess I need to start looking for a therapist now, if I want this to happen anytime soon