Great presentation. I've had scans previously at your London Medical Centre branch when I was going through a stage of increasing muscle/losing bodyfat. I know how hard it is to do this and my best results were gaining 2kg lean and losing 2kg fat in a 4 month period. I resistance/weight trained hard about 6 days a week, each session about 50-60mins, I was predominantly plant/vegan based and in addition I consumed vegan protein powder and creatine monohydrate. Age mid 50s. The thing is, people can caught up into thinking that a big muscle is good whereas the quality of the muscle is what really counts. (As well as bone health, cardio, diet, and so on). Look at how many body builders die early, (possible other factors involved) and then look at how many (lean) old kung fu or karate masters there are still doing their stuff into their 70s and beyond. Of course the genetic/epi-genetic and race thing may play a part here, but hey, In my younger years I did kung fu (I was tall and skinny), and occasionally a big bodybuilder type might join the club and I would always have greater strength than them when doing a "pushing hands" type drill, Our training was designed to strengthen tendons, bones, ligaments, joints and I believe these are the important structures/tissues in the body that need to be strong in the first instance and this in turn will increase the quality of the muscle rather than its size. When weight training for hypertrophy, the muscles size and strength could quickly outgrow the structures and tissues holding/surrounding them, the opposite effect of the kung fu system I trained.
Thanks for the feedback and comments - your results sound pretty good - mid 50s and a 4kg change in body composition. Gaining 2kg of lean in four months at maintenance calories is no mean feat!
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Great presentation. I've had scans previously at your London Medical Centre branch when I was going through a stage of increasing muscle/losing bodyfat. I know how hard it is to do this and my best results were gaining 2kg lean and losing 2kg fat in a 4 month period. I resistance/weight trained hard about 6 days a week, each session about 50-60mins, I was predominantly plant/vegan based and in addition I consumed vegan protein powder and creatine monohydrate. Age mid 50s.
The thing is, people can caught up into thinking that a big muscle is good whereas the quality of the muscle is what really counts. (As well as bone health, cardio, diet, and so on). Look at how many body builders die early, (possible other factors involved) and then look at how many (lean) old kung fu or karate masters there are still doing their stuff into their 70s and beyond. Of course the genetic/epi-genetic and race thing may play a part here, but hey,
In my younger years I did kung fu (I was tall and skinny), and occasionally a big bodybuilder type might join the club and I would always have greater strength than them when doing a "pushing hands" type drill, Our training was designed to strengthen tendons, bones, ligaments, joints and I believe these are the important structures/tissues in the body that need to be strong in the first instance and this in turn will increase the quality of the muscle rather than its size.
When weight training for hypertrophy, the muscles size and strength could quickly outgrow the structures and tissues holding/surrounding them, the opposite effect of the kung fu system I trained.
Thanks for the feedback and comments - your results sound pretty good - mid 50s and a 4kg change in body composition. Gaining 2kg of lean in four months at maintenance calories is no mean feat!
I did a second dexa and your videos helped me to understand it, thanks!
Excellent video...thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Good vid. Trying to book into your Manchester location. The booking system is broken though
Excellent video!
Thanks, Steve. If you're in the UK, we hope to see you soon!
Great vid, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it, Simon! Hope to see you at Bodyscan to discover your own LMI!
Can you give me the link of the Chilean study of 1400 people with an average age of 74.
Thanks
It's in the book as 'Bunout et al' (2011). I think this is it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-6612.2010.00448.x