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Training More Muscle Mass -> more Testosterone Hormone
Testosterone is a steroid hormone secreted from the Leydig cells of the testes that has both anabolic and anticatabolic effects on muscle tissue. If you are exercising, training, weight lifting or body building. The anabolic effect will help you build bigger and stronger muscles while the anticatabolic effect will help stopping muscle breakdown during exercise, sleeping and periods of stress.
Diet, food and nutrition are important factors, but so are exercise and training. High intensity resistance training seems to be one of the most important factors, if not the most important factor. But what type of training works best. If you look at some of the studies out there you will probably not find that much research yet. But there is at least one important hint in one study.
A study looking at the influence of protein, fat and nutrition on testosterone also looked at some of the training itself.
"The significant increase in T after both the bench press and jump squat exercise protocols confirms that high-intensity resistance exercise results in elevated concentrations of Testosterone. The fact that T was increased by ~15% after the jump squat exercise compared with ~7% after the bench press exercise was most likely due to the greater muscle mass used in the jump squat"
So it seems training bigger muscles (and thus a higher intensity) may be the most important factor. This makes training the biggest muscle in the body important instead of only training biceps, triceps and doing the chest press.
Biggest muscles in the body:
Gluteus Maximus, the muscle in your butt (Squats)
Latissimus Dorsi, the big muscles under your arms/back (pull down exercise)
Pectoralis Major your breast muscles (Chest Press exercise)
Doing these exercises will also train most of the other bigger muscles.
PMID: 9029197
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