What does a heavy workout do to your test level immediately after w/o?

[MeanGreen]

First question:

Assuming you're not on TRT or taking any AAS, does your test level rise or lower directly after working out?

Say, I go to the gym for an early morning heavy back workout and then right after got my blood drawn,
would my test level increase or decrease significantly compared to if I didn't work out at all?

Second question:

Same question, but instead of a workout, say you had early morning sex. Does "releasing the swimmers" significantly affect test level right after, say if you were to get your blood drawn?

 

[AverageMan]

First question:

Assuming you're not on TRT or taking any AAS, does your test level rise or lower directly after working out?

Say, I go to the gym for an early morning heavy back workout and then right after got my blood drawn,
would my test level increase or decrease significantly compared to if I didn't work out at all?

Second question:

Same question, but instead of a workout, say you had early morning sex. Does "releasing the swimmers" significantly affect test level right after, say if you were to get your blood drawn?

Working out and sex have little/ no affect on TT. It's been studied and proven.

Your natural Test is made while you sleep and will be highest after waking up and lowest before going to bed.

 

[anzel]

So if you are purposely trying to have your TT at its lowest so you can trick your dr into giving you test then go at night. But dont really do that im being sarcastic , go about HRT the right way. This is your health we are talking about. You want your Dr to have coorect insight into your health for your future.

 

[Milton]

First question:

Assuming you're not on TRT or taking any AAS, does your test level rise or lower directly after working out?

Say, I go to the gym for an early morning heavy back workout and then right after got my blood drawn,
would my test level increase or decrease significantly compared to if I didn't work out at all?

Second question:

Same question, but instead of a workout, say you had early morning sex. Does "releasing the swimmers" significantly affect test level right after, say if you were to get your blood drawn?

Back when I was All State in high school, coach always told us to avoid girls the day of the game. On the game days that I could not bear the begging and pleading anymore I always felt weaker then when I withheld the masses of girls. Just saying.

 

[PrinceDianabol]

So if you are purposely trying to have your TT at its lowest so you can trick your dr into giving you test then go at night. But dont really do that im being sarcastic , go about HRT the right way. This is your health we are talking about. You want your Dr to have coorect insight into your health for your future.

Yes you could lol, but not sure in America but in Oz our blood tests have the time drawn recorded. So he will be onto you

 

[La la la]

If you want to drop your test level like 200 ng/dl, just do 5x5 program and don't eat much. You will notice after 1 month, you will feel tired because your test level dropped. Try this 1.5 months. Just 5x5 and eat low calories.

 

[Virginian]

If you want to drop your test level like 200 ng/dl, just do 5x5 program and don't eat much. You will notice after 1 month, you will feel tired because your test level dropped. Try this 1.5 months. Just 5x5 and eat low calories.

Interesting. Do others agree that heavy exercise significantly lowers test levels?

I ask because I can usually predict very accurately the test level results from my blood work, within a few percent.

But I have had 2 exceptions in which the test levels measured from blood work were about 200 ng/dL higher than I expected. I regularly exercise strenuously, but on the 2 occasions when my test levels were much higher than expected, I had not had any significant exercise during the previous 3 or 4 weeks.

So does exercise "burn" testosterone and cause test levels to be lower than if you didn't exercise?

 

[christianbber]

I found a quote below. However, after a workout I am exhausted and don't usually have sex that night with my girl... go figure.

Effect of Weight Training on Serum Testosterone

Again, research prove, in a consistant manner, that the level of serum testosterone is higher after a bout of demanding resistance training. That increase being affected by the amount of muscle mass stimulated, the training load and the level of intensity (again intensity reffering to a %age of your 1RM).

 

[oldmusclemike]

Ridicules thought

 

[halfwit]

If you want to drop your test level like 200 ng/dl, just do 5x5 program and don't eat much. You will notice after 1 month, you will feel tired because your test level dropped. Try this 1.5 months. Just 5x5 and eat low calories.

Please stop with the bro-science. Caloric restrictions alone can reduce serum testosterone, but spouting out a number that's in hypogonadal range is just ignorant. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to the human body or HPTA.

OP: The answer to your questions is both. There is a slight decrease in testosterone followed by a small peak. Sex itself is dependent on testosterone and estradiol fluctuations (hence morning wood), but abstaining is also just a myth (nofap nonsense takes it to the extreme) and has very little merit.

Basically what AverageMan said.

 

[daleb]

Please stop with the bro-science. Caloric restrictions alone can reduce serum testosterone, but spouting out a number that's in hypogonadal range is just ignorant. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to the human body or HPTA.

OP: The answer to your questions is both. There is a slight decrease in testosterone followed by a small peak. Sex itself is dependent on testosterone and estradiol fluctuations (hence morning wood), but abstaining is also just a myth (nofap nonsense takes it to the extreme) and has very little merit.

Basically what AverageMan said.

I remember reading a study that in normal men free weight workouts using compound movments will increase serum testosterone but in hypogonadal men not on TRT it makes things slightly worse.

 

[trtbaldguy]

I can tell you for sure that even with high testosterone numbers, when i slay myself at the gym, i have a lower than usual libido, and lower than normal ability to keep an erection as well as decreased sensitivity. So it effects it somehow, whether that's free T, serum, or bioavailable T, i don't know. This is only weight lifting. If i jump on my road bike for 30 miles, i feel like i could take on 3 of my wife and satisfy all of them.

I would say for those of us on TRT it will negatively impact your T numbers, as your body isn't able to ramp up T production when it needs to, because it's only producing when or if you're injecting HCG because it's not getting an LH signal, HCG is it. That said you can probably time it well so that you don't have that drop if you inject day of your workout at a certain point.

 

[halfwit]

I can tell you for sure that even with high testosterone numbers, when i slay myself at the gym, i have a lower than usual libido, and lower than normal ability to keep an erection as well as decreased sensitivity. So it effects it somehow, whether that's free T, serum, or bioavailable T, i don't know. This is only weight lifting. If i jump on my road bike for 30 miles, i feel like i could take on 3 of my wife and satisfy all of them.

I would say for those of us on TRT it will negatively impact your T numbers, as your body isn't able to ramp up T production when it needs to, because it's only producing when or if you're injecting HCG because it's not getting an LH signal, HCG is it. That said you can probably time it well so that you don't have that drop if you inject day of your workout at a certain point.

Or you're just tired lmao.

I'll work 10 hours, hit the gym for two, do three hours of homework, and still bang the wife. TRT = hormone levels do NOT move. It's a benefit in this manner.