not sure if you're not reading it correctly, or if im not:
3.1. Body Composition
Following the 12-week HMB supplementation of the athletes, in comparison to the placebo treatment, a significant increase (p = 0.049) in the fat-free mass (HMB: +0.8 kg vs. PLA: −0.6 kg) was recorded.
+0.8kg fat free mass (1.7lb) isnt minimal.
Honestly, YOU ARE probably reading it right as you went further into it. The part I posted made me go "WTF...that's nothing", and then when I read about the washouts, different MMA styles, and the years training variable....I felt there was too much flaw in the study to read further. I still feel that way due to those things.
"+0.8kg fat free mass (1.7lb) isnt minimal." That's debatable. I guess I'll go with your "isn't minimal" statement, but I'll ask you to go with my statement that "It's not remotely substantial either"?
To illustrate my point, today was actually my two week "check in" (with myself)....where I do all my tape measurements, weight, and 4 site skin fold (I actually do 5, but the 5th is for a 7 site test which I have a trainer at the gym do my axila and subscalpula as they're impossible on my own) There is usually between a 1% - 2% difference between the two so I just add them and divide by 2, and go with that as my true reading......I'm telling you this because I factored in a 1.5% difference even though I won't be able to get those sites measured til after the weekend.
So here's where you realize I'm not the full of shit getbigger lying asshole you think I am. Remember, I hadn't trained for almost 3 yrs after tearing my bicep so yeah....I'm a fatty, but getting better. Started 12-29-18 at 194.2 BF est 25% (tested 2 weeks later a little over 23% so I'm pretty sure my estimate was close) Today 3-23-19 I weighed 187 on the dot, and average with 1.5% discrepancy factored in worked out to exactly 18% oddly enough.
So change in lbm is +8.66 lbs and fat weight change is -15.86 lbs. Now, I am on TRT so there's that, and it's not something I'm trying to hide. However, the first two weeks back I literally did curls and back rows with nothing heavier than 15 lb dbells. I just did lots of reps + supersets + dropsets to keep me ego in check while I got over my fear of starting to lift again and started doing cardio. I am still scared shitless, and next week (tommorow) will be the first time I use a dumbbell over 50lbs, and also the first time I bench more than 145 for reps. Also, I only trained with weights 2x and did cardio 2x between 2-9 and 3-10 (those things overlapped once) as it was fuckin insanely cold here, and my bones and joints were aching like they were when I suffered my tear so I said fuck it...lifting can wait another month. I could likely get much better results and speed up getting back to squatting 4 wheels+ and benching 3 wheels+, but if I'm growing and losing fat doing bitch weights why should I be in a rush to have sore joints and possibly re-tear my fuckin tendon, right? Also, I'm 15 years older than I was when I squatted like that and 7 older than the last time I benched 315......I don't know that doing that is even a good goal to have at this point.
Most of those changes came from three things, and it was not the TRT because I was already back on it in late October. Three things were: Zero alcohol, eating at least 2-3 home cooked meals + 1 protein shake (recipe in this thread), and muscle memory.
I'm telling you all this to make my point about this study which is: With a 3.6 yr differential in training, different MMA styles, plus just their "word" on nutrient intake, and.. (only they know what else?
) there's a lot of things we don't know in that study RBB. There could be one of me in that group. In a group of only 42 final subjects, someone like me with my numbers would fuck the whole thing up and make it as useless as I feel that it is.
Sorry....another long "Matt"-like post (I don't even know who you were referencing me to with that btw, but it sounded like a diss fucker!
) Hopefully, you found some value in this one. I'd hate to have wasted your precious liberal time that you could have spent watching Maddow cry again.
LOL!
