Originally Posted by
red hot moon
Thanks ColoWayno. I'm interested in knowing more about your wife's situation if you're comfortable sharing. I'm wondering about the extent of her bone loss before starting weight training. Has she been training as you described? Has she added weights to her lifts at the sort of pace you described? Does she focus on compound exercises, isolations or both?
Your description of adding 2.5 pounds per week put things in perspective in terms of small increments adding up and looking pretty positive if you look at how far you can go in a year with that method. As far as what you said about muscles outpacing bones to some extent... I have heard of a person with assumed good bone density overdoing it at the gym and fracturing bones just through lifting heavy weights too much. So I gather muscles outpacing bones is necessary but there's a limit to what even a healthy bone can handle so this is why I'm trying to find info on how far I can push my own less dense bones.
I'm curious too - has your wife had a scan since she has started weightlifting? Just wondering what sort of improvement (hopefully) she is seeing for her efforts.