1 year on e and I am actually SO weak now, I had to ask my dad to put some weights back on the rack for me when we went to the gym 😭

I used to be able to do 450lb leg press 5 times in a row what happened

I don’t absolutely hate myself anymore so that’s going for me :steamhappy:

  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Someone linked a study on this a while ago. IIRC it’s a 20-30% strength loss on average, depending on the ability you’re testing?

  • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    yeah same for me. i lost quite a bit of stamina over the last few weeks. i can literally feel my heart beat just from taking a walk these days. it’s insane. i should do some fitness training explicitely.

  • wylinka@szmer.infoEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    I’ve been 9 years on E and if anything I think I got stronger, because I feel more in touch with my body. I guess this just works different for everyone ._.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I didn’t lose as much strength as I thought I would, but that’s just because I was as weak as physically possible before HRT. Losing as much strength as others would’ve put me below basic resting muscle mass

    • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Get a cheap pair of rubber coated work gloves for your kitchen. They make jars easy to open.

      They can be used to handle hot stuff too, if it’s not for long or not very hot but still too hot for bare hands.

      They look like this:

      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Yeah, we have had this little rubber pad kicking around in a drawer that we always used to open cans. More grip makes it a lot easier.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Time for strategy to replace brawn. Most jars will open easily if you can release the vacuum. Imho the best thing to use is a bottle opener/can piercer, using the rounded end and very gently just barely lifting the edge of the lid. You don’t want to break/chip any glass or bend the lid so far its functionality is compromised.

        • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          The pointy end is to pierce the can of evaporated milk or broth. Always make two opposite holes so air can get in. If you have no proper can opener, and something more solid in the can, you can keep going making triangle holes until you can lift up the now-star-shaped lid to get out whatever you couldn’t pour through the first 2 triangles. For jar lids used the round end unless you’re going to use it all and don’t mind accidentally poking a hole in the lid instead of just lifting up the side a little.

      • Mike D@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        5 hours ago

        I was taught to whack the edge of the jar with the dull side of a butter knife. This releases the vacuum.

        It dull side doesn’t work, hit the jar edge with the handled of the knife.

        • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          That usually works but then there’s the time it releases the vacuum by breaking the jar. Maybe it’s because I’m a klutz but my mom taught me the slow and gentle way.

          She did let me whack the Pillsbury though

    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      i heard somewhere that its not actually only strength that makes it easier for men to open jars, but something to do with the skin. like something to do with the reason their skin is rougher gives them more grippy hands, so they actually just need less physical strength than a woman to open a jar. that would mean even if a man and a woman had the same grip strength and hand size/shape, there would be a jar that the man could open but the woman could not.

      • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        It’s the lack of moisture on one’s skin. I suddenly started dropping things a week into HRT, before anything major could’ve changed. I realized it was because my hands were much drier and therefore less sticky. It’s why wetting your hands a bit can help you open thin plastic bags.

        • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          lol as a piano player I feel like my hands get quite a bit of exercise

          And in general piano players are known for having quite large hands (although that’s by no means universal) it really makes some things quite a lot easier. I think it also trains you to stretch your handspan more than non-piano-players can with equivalently sized hands, although I’m sure that won’t help you open a beer ofc.