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Preventing muscle atrophy

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Y'all inspired me to go to the gym today. I felt like crap, but I went anyway, and worked out for a full hour.

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My situation is unusual because I also had the spinal compression, nerve damage, and paraplegia, but I know the ADT + Apalutamide also play a role. My experience:

- Light workout: feelin' good
- Moderate workout: feelin' GREAT!
- Intense workout: crash and burn (no energy for days, stiffness, soreness)

So the trick for me is remembering to stop at "moderate", because when I feel great, I naturally want to push on to "intense"; but with the hormone deprivation (and nerve damage), I no longer have a body that knows how to process "intense", so instead of building me up, it just shuts me down.