Why Weight Training is SO Important While on Hormone Therapy

PCRI's Executive Director, Mark Scholz, MD, discusses the significance of weight training while on hormone blockade (otherwise known as androgen deprivation, hormone deprivation, hormone blockade, etc.) for counteracting muscle degradation and fatigue, and maintaining a sense of normalcy.

0:13 Muscle loss is a natural part of aging, but men who are undergoing hormone therapy will experience muscle loss at an accelerated rate leading to the commonly associated side effects of weakness and fatigue. The best way to counteract this process of muscle loss is to practice consistent weight training.

1:03 Weight training isn't the same as just being active. Either by use of weights, calisthenics, resistance training, or the use of weight machines you need to be doing repetitions until your muscles are taken to failure (you feel like you can't keep going).

1:42 This can be potentially dangerous. If you injure yourself, then you will not be able to do any kind of training, and muscle loss will progress. Therefore it is advisable to get a trainer, at least for the first month or two to ensure your safety and to have someone who will hold you accountable for going past your comfort levels.

2:08 Consistent intense weight training while on hormone blockade is critical. It's the difference between feeling relatively normal and feeling totally fatigued.

2:20 While on hormone therapy, it is inadvisable to even take a one or two week break from weight training. Muscle loss without testosterone happens so quickly that even a short break can cause big problems.

2:55 Hormone therapy and weight training should be thought of as inseparable ideas. If you want to counteract the fatigue of hormone therapy, then you have to be doing consistent and effective weight training.

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