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Does this have any correlation to regular aerobic activity?

• tomcooks 8y ago
  Not understanding the downvotes to this question, exercising is supposed to help stabilize testosterone
• ar-jan 8y ago
  afaik testosterone production is more related with strength training, especially the legs (squats!). Aerobic exercise has other advantages like increase in endorphins and norepinephrin.
  • Florin_Andrei 8y ago
    My understanding is that squats boost T production because so many muscles are involved at once. In other words, full body resistance training should generally boost the T level.
• mindcrime 8y ago
  As best as I can recall, resistance training has been shown to spur testosterone production, but I believe the last study I saw showed that the effect is fairly short-lived. So while resistance training is absolutely advisable for many reasons, I'm not sure if it's sufficient for somebody who actually has a noticeable testosterone deficiency. Outside of the T issue, exercise of various sorts has been shown to have a positive effect on mood. Note that for men in particular, loss of muscle mass as you age is a big health issue, and regular resistance training directly combats that. For (type 2) diabetics, resistance training also seems to improve insulin sensitivity.
  • tomp 8y ago
    > Note that for men in particular, loss of muscle mass as you age is a big health issue, and regular resistance training directly combats that. How come this isn’t such a big problem for women?
    • mindcrime 8y ago
      Good question. As far as that goes, I'm not sure that it isn't a problem for women. But as a man who's getting up there age-wise, I've been hearing a lot about this issue and how men are particularly affected by it. Maybe it is because we tend to carry more muscle mass in the first place, and is somehow tied up with the normal decline in testosterone production that men experience?